Robert Chazan family, wife, children, parents, siblings

Robert L. Chazan was an American historian who was the S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew & Judaic Studies at New York University. 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.”

Robert Chazan wife

Robert Chazan’s marriage life was kept hidden.

Robert Chazan children

Robert Chazan’s children are not revealed.

Robert Chazan parents

Robert Chazan was born on April 25, 1936, in Albany, New York, U.S. to his parents. He graduated from Columbia College (BA), Jewish Theological Seminary (Semikhah), and Columbia University (MA), (PhD).

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.

Robert Chazan siblings

Robert Chazan’s siblings are not known.