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Mainz Anonymous

The Mainz Anonymous or The Narrative of the Old Persecutions is an account of the First Crusade of 1096 written soon thereafter by an anonymous Jewish author.


Historiography of the Crusades

Among the better-known Jewish narratives are the Solomon bar Simson Chronicle, the chronicle of Rabbi Eliezer bar Nathan, The Narrative of the Old Persecutions or Mainz Anonymous, and Sefer Zekhirah and The Book of Remembrance by Rabbi Ephraim of Bonn.

History of the Jews and the Crusades

Among the better known Jewish narratives are the chronicles of Solomon Bar Simson and Rabbi Eliezer bar Nathan, The Narrative of the Old Persecutions by Mainz Anonymous, and Sefer Zekhirah, or The Book of Remembrance, by Rabbi Ephraim of Bonn.

Solomon bar Simson Chronicle

Like the Eliezer bar Nathan Chronicle and the Mainz Anonymous, it is concerned with the persecutions of Jewish communities in the Rhineland area, notably Speyer, Worms, Mainz and Trier, during the First Crusade (1095-1099).


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