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Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books (Hardcover)
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Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books (Hardcover)
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This study reconstructs the history of a significant crisis in
Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy
all Jewish books in Renaissance Germany. This unprecedented effort
to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire was challenged
by Jewish communities and also, in an unexpected move, by Johannes
Reuchlin (1455-1522), the founder of Christian Hebrew studies.
Reuchlin had revolutionized the Christian study of the Bible with
his Hebrew grammar. In 1510 he published an extensive, impassioned,
and successful defense of Jewish writings and Jewish legal rights
against the book pogrom, later acknowledged by Josel of Rosheim,
the leader of German Jewry, as a ''miracle within a miracle.'' The
fury that greeted Reuchlin's defense of Judaism resulted in a
protracted heresy trial that polarized Europe, ultimately fostering
a receptive environment for the nascent Reformation movement. The
legal and theological battle over charges that Reuchlin's opinions
were "impermissibly favorable to Jews," a conflict that elicited
intervention on both sides from the most powerful political and
intellectual leaders throughout Renaissance Europe, formed a new
context for Christian reflection on the status of Judaism. David
Price offers insight into important new 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. His 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.
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