Revealing the Secrets of the Jews: Johannes Pfefferkorn and Christian Writings about Jewish Life and Literature in Early Modern Europe (original) (raw)
Contents Illustrations Acknowledgements Contributors A Note on Spelling and Referencing Introduction 1 Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Heß: Jewish Life and Books under Scrutiny: Ethnography, Polemics, and Converts I Life and campaigns 2 David H. Price: Johannes Pfefferkorn and Imperial Politics 3 Franz Posset: In Search of the Historical Pfefferkorn: The Missionary to the Jews, 1507–1508 4 Avner Shamir: Johannes Pfefferkorn and the Dual Form of the Confiscation Campaign II Books and dissemination 5 Jan-Hendryk de Boer: Pfefferkorn’s Books or the Most Rational Man in the World 6 Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig: Synagoga Veritas? Johannes Pfefferkorn and his Synagogue Descriptions in the buchlijn der iuden beicht 7 Cordelia Heß: Jew-Hatred Sells? Anti-Jewish Print Production in the German Dialects 8 Jonathan Adams: “Thus shall Christian people know to punish them”: Translating Pfefferkorn into Danish III Converts, ethnography, and polemics 9 Maria Diemling: Patronage, Representation, and Conversion: Victor von Carben (1423–1515) and his Social Networks 10 Stephen G. Burnett: Luther’s Chief Witness: Anthonius Margaritha’s Der gantz Jüdisch glaub (1530/1531) 11 Yaacov Deutsch: The Reception History of Ethnographic Literature about the Jews 12 Ryan W. Szpiech: From Convert to Convert: Two Opposed Trends in Late Medieval and Early Modern Anti-Jewish Polemic 13 Imanuel Clemens Schmidt: Revealing the Absurdity of Jewish Hopes: From Polemical Ethnography to Basnage’s L’Histoire des Juifs 14 Markéta Kabůrková: Tela Ignea Satanae: Christian Scholars and the Editing of Hebrew Polemical Literature 15 Avery Gosfield: Gratias post mensam in diebus festiuis cum cantico hebrayim: A New Look at an Early Sixteenth-Century Tzur Mishelo Works Attributed to Johannes Pfefferkorn Bibliography Indices
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