Robert Leon Chazan was born in
Albany, New York on April 25, 1936. According to
Andrew Gow writing in
Speculum, Chazan is, "a distinguished scholar in the field of Jewish history and Christian-Jewish relations in the high Middle Ages." A
festschrift published in Chazan's honor and edited by
David Engel,
Lawrence Schiffman,
Elliot Wolfson, and
Yechiel Schur, lists, "the history of the Jewish communities in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of the experience of medieval Jewry," as 4 of the scholarly concerns that have been central to Chazan's work. Chazan died on February 12, 2024, at the age of 87. ==Bibliography==