Creator Bio
Solomon bar Samson
12th Century
Little is known about the German Jewish chronicler Solomon bar Samson (also rendered Simson) beyond his authorship of a Hebrew account of the attacks on Jewish communities during the First Crusade of 1096.
Content by Solomon bar Samson
Primary Source
Crusade Chronicle
It came to pass on the third day of Sivan, which had been a day of sanctity and setting apart for Israel at the time of the giving of the Torah—on that day when Moses our teacher, may his memory be…