Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 31 January 2013
- ISBN 9780199974948
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 156x234x19 mm
- Weight 513 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Throughout early sixteenth century Germany, attempts were made to confiscate and destroy Jewish books, in order to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire. An unlikely champion of Judaism emerged in Johannes Reuchlin, who wrote a passionate defense of Jewish writings and legal rights in 1510. David H. Price offers a compelling study of Reuchlin 's writings and their enduring impact on Jewish-Christian relations.
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The early sixteenth century saw a major crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy every Jewish book in Germany. This unprecedented effort to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire was challenged by Jewish communities, and, unexpectedly, by Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522), the founder of Christian Hebrew studies. In 1510, Reuchlin wrote an extensive, impassioned, and ultimately successful defense of Jewish writings and legal rights, a stunning intervention later acknowledged by a Jewish leader as a ''miracle within a miracle.''
The fury that greeted Reuchlin's defense of Judaism resulted in a protracted heresy trial that polarized Europe. The decade-long controversy promoted acceptance of humanist culture in northern Europe and, in several key settings, created an environment that was receptive to the nascent Reformation movement. The legal and theological battles over charges that Reuchlin's positions were "impermissibly favorable to Jews," a conflict that elicited intervention on both sides from the most powerful political and intellectual leaders in Renaissance Europe, formed a new context for Christian reflection on Judaism.
David H. Price offers insight into important Christian discourses on Judaism and anti-Semitism that emerged from the clash of Renaissance humanism with this potent anti-Jewish campaign, as well as an innovative analysis of Luther's virulent anti-Semitism in the context and aftermath of the Reuchlin Affair. This book is a valuable contribution to study of an important and complex development in European history: Christians acquiring accurate knowledge of Judaism and its history.
Richly detailed yet lucid and eminently readable...Price's study is refreshingly balanced in its judgements. He has painstakingly researched original sources and the voluminous previous scholarship in several languages, and has compressed a thorough analysis of the complexities of the topic into a mere 230 pages...Price's penetrating study is an outstanding book with much to offer historians of humanism and the Reformation.
Table of Contents:
1. ''Impermissibly Favorable to Jews?''
2. Humanist Origins
3. Humanism at Court
4. Discovery of Hebrew
5. Johannes Pfefferkorn and the Campaign against Jews
6. Who Saved the Jewish Books?
7. Inquisition
8. Trial at Rome and the Christian Debates
9. The Luther Affair
10. ''As If the First Martyr of Hebrew Letters''
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