Jews' Mirror (Der Juden Spiegel) by Johannes Pfefferkorn: Volume 390 (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) - Hardcover
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Jewsâ Mirror (Der Juden Spiegel) by Johannes Pfefferkorn (Volume 390) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
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Jewsâ Mirror (Der Juden Spiegel) by Johannes Pfefferkorn (Volume 390) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
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The Jew's Mirror (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies) (English and German Edition)
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Jews' Mirror (Der Juden Spiegel) by Johannes Pfefferkorn (Volume 390) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Bilingual Edition. New case-wrapped hardcover. 8vo. (6 x 0.5 x 9 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. B&W illustrations. Includes a bibliography and an index. 128 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Johannes Pfefferkorn was a German Jew who, in the early sixteenth century, converted to Roman Catholicism. Upon his baptism, he made great efforts to proselytize his former co-religionists. He belonged to a tradition of Jewish converts who throughout centuries had served the Church as major witnesses against Jewish minorities. Between 1507 and 1521, no other individual author published more pamphlets on Jews than Pfefferkorn. Pfefferkorn's first anti-Jewish pamphlet, entitled Der Juden Spiegel (The Jews' Mirror), was printed in both German and Latin versions by various publishers in 1507 and 1508, primarily in Nuremberg and Cologne. It is an important piece of polemical literature and a valuable historical witness to a crucial moment in early sixteenth-century Germany on the eve of the Reformation. The pamphlet consists of three parts. In the first part, directed to a Jewish audience, Pfefferkorn acknowledges the difficulty in the mission among the Jews and discusses conventional core theological topics in Jewish-Christian debates. The second part is addressed to Christian authorities and advises them on the treatment of Jews so that they may convert to Christianity. Pfefferkorn advocates compulsory mission sermons and asks for the confiscation of rabbinic literature, which he blames for their reluctance to convert. He also demands that Jews should not be permitted to practice usury. In the third part he interprets the signs of the times in apocalyptic terms. This edition is the first unabridged, modern German and English translation of Pfef-ferkorn's first pamphlet and includes a commentary. Maria Diemling's comprehensive historical introduction places his writing into the historical context in which it was written by discussing his life, conversion, anti-Judaism, and controversy in early-sixteenth century Germany. Seller Inventory # 575