The Many Deaths of Jew Süss (eBook)

The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew

Yair Mintzker (Autor)

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2017
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9781400887804 (ISBN)

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A groundbreaking historical reexamination of one of the most infamous episodes in the history of anti-SemitismJoseph Suss Oppenheimer-"e;Jew Suss"e;-is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the "e;court Jew"e; of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Wurttemberg. When Carl Alexander died unexpectedly, the Wurttemberg authorities arrested Oppenheimer, put him on trial, and condemned him to death for unspecified "e;misdeeds."e; On February 4, 1738, Oppenheimer was hanged in front of a large crowd just outside Stuttgart. He is most often remembered today through several works of fiction, chief among them a vicious Nazi propaganda movie made in 1940 at the behest of Joseph Goebbels.The Many Deaths of Jew Suss is a compelling new account of Oppenheimer's notorious trial. Drawing on a wealth of rare archival evidence, Yair Mintzker investigates conflicting versions of Oppenheimer's life and death as told by four contemporaries: the leading inquisitor in the criminal investigation, the most important eyewitness to Oppenheimer's final days, a fellow court Jew who was permitted to visit Oppenheimer on the eve of his execution, and one of Oppenheimer's earliest biographers. What emerges is a lurid tale of greed, sex, violence, and disgrace-but are these narrators to be trusted? Meticulously reconstructing the social world in which they lived, and taking nothing they say at face value, Mintzker conjures an unforgettable picture of "e;Jew Suss"e; in his final days that is at once moving, disturbing, and profound.The Many Deaths of Jew Suss is a masterfully innovative work of history, and an illuminating parable about Jewish life in the fraught transition to modernity.

Autor

Yair Mintzker is professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author of The Defortification of the German City, 1689–1866.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.5.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 8 halftones. 2 maps.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: 1730s Stuttgart • adultery • Agag • Albrecht • Allegory • Allusion • Anecdote • anti-Jewish sentiments • Anti-Semitism • attempt • Bar and Bat Mitzvah • Biography • books of Samuel • Canonization • Capital punishment • Carl Alexander • Catechism • Central Europe • Christianity • Christians • Christoph David Bernard • circumstantial evidence • Collegiate Church • Consideration • Courtier • court Jew • criminal justice • David Fassmann • death sentence • Deliberation • Disputation • Doctor of both laws • dramatic account • Duchy • Early Modern Europe • early modern period • eulogy • Execution • factual veracity • Fasting • german nation • Ghetto • Gibbeting • Gudrun • Haggadah • H. C. Erik Midelfort • His Family • historical figure • Holy Roman Empire • Household • Imperial Knight • In Death • inquisitorial • Interrogation • israelites • Issachar • James J. Sheehan • Jewish Diaspora • Jewish Life • Jewish notable • Jewish prayer • Jews • Jew Süss • Joseph Albo • Joseph and his brothers • Joseph Süss Oppenheimer • Judaism • judge-inquisitor • Kabbalah • Lecture • Legal code (municipal) • Legal system • Leipzig • librarian • Literature • litterateur • Livelihood • Lyndal Roper • Margolis • matzo • Modernity • Mordechai Schloss • narrative • Nazi Propaganda • newspaper • Nuremberg • On the Eve • Oxford University Press • Pamphlet • Passover • perjury • Philipp Friedrich Jäger • piety • pity • Polemic • Political organization • polyphonic nature • Proselyte • Publication • Rabbi • Rashi • Reimer • Reinhard • Religion • Richard J. Evans • Rosh Hashanah • sanctification • Saul • Schloss • Schorndorf • seminary • Shulchan Aruch • skepticism • Society of Jesus • Special Criminal Court • spouse • Statute • Surname • Tax • The Final Verdict • theological truth • Theology • The Other Hand • Torture • treatise • Trial • Uncertainty • Vincenz Fettmilch • Writing • Württember • Württemberg • Württembergers • Yiddish
• ISBN-13: 9781400887804 / 9781400887804