Background
Golb, Norman was born on January 15, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Joseph and Rose Golb.
(This is the first comprehensive account, based on manuscr...)
This is the first comprehensive account, based on manuscript and archaeological evidence, of the high Hebraic culture developed by the Jews in Normandy during the Middle Ages, and in particular during the Anglo-Norman period. The book explores the origins of this remarkable community, beginning with topographical evidence pointing to the arrival of the Jews in Normandy as early as Roman and Gallo-Roman times, and finally uses the rich manuscript evidence of twelfth- and early thirteenth-century writers. The text is illustrated copiously with maps and other illustrations, many reproduced here for the first time.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521580323/?tag=2022091-20
(This is the first comprehensive account, based on manuscr...)
This is the first comprehensive account, based on manuscript and archaeological evidence, of the high Hebraic culture developed by the Jews in Normandy during the Middle Ages, and in particular during the Anglo-Norman period. The book explores the origins of this remarkable community, beginning with topographical evidence pointing to the arrival of the Jews in Normandy as early as Roman and Gallo-Roman times, and finally uses the rich manuscript evidence of twelfth- and early thirteenth-century writers. The text is illustrated copiously with maps and other illustrations, many reproduced here for the first time.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1107406870/?tag=2022091-20
Golb, Norman was born on January 15, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Joseph and Rose Golb.
Bachelor, Roosevelt University, Chicago, 1948. Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1954. Docteur history (honorary), University de Rouen, France, 1986.
He joined the faculty of the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati in 1958 before settling at the University of Chicago, where he has worked since 1963. Golb has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Wisconsin (1957-1958), Harvard University (1966), and Tel Aviv University (1969-1970). In the 1990s, Golb was an advocate for the freeing of the Scrolls for general scholarly studies.
Golb was also the discoverer, in 1962, of the Kievan Letter, the earliest document attesting to Jewish habitation of Kiev.
He also identified Obadiah the Proselyte as the author of the oldest known manuscript of Hebrew music (12th century), the earliest extant legal record of the Jews of Sicily, a new document dealing with the First Crusade and new manuscript materials relating to the Jews of Rouen. He was born in Chicago, Illinois.
(This is the first comprehensive account, based on manuscr...)
(This is the first comprehensive account, based on manuscr...)
Honorary president International Conference on LIfe and Music of Obadiah the Proselyte (12th Century), Oppido Lucano, Italy, 2004. Member of Clare Hall, University Cambridge (life), Ordre des Canardiers (founder, Chicago branch 1992), International Society of Judaeo-Arabic Studies (founder 1983), Union League Club of Chicago (chairman and organization of Embassy to France program 1997-1998, public affairs committee since 1999, chairman and organization of Embassy to Mexico program 2004).
Married Ruth Magid, September 17, 1949. Children: Joel, Judith, Raphael.