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The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew

The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew

Mintzker, Yair

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World HistoryGerman History

ISBN10: 0691192731
ISBN13: 9780691192734
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 14 2019
Pages: 344
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

New historical insights into one of the most infamous episodes in the history of anti-Semitism

Joseph Süss Oppenheimer--Jew Süss--is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the court Jew of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Württemberg. When Carl Alexander died unexpectedly, the Württemberg authorities arrested Oppenheimer, put him on trial, and condemned him to death for unspecified misdeeds. 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. Investigating conflicting versions of Oppenheimer's life and death as told by his contemporaries, Yair Mintzker conjures an unforgettable picture of Jew Süss in his final days that is at once moving, disturbing, and profound. The Many Deaths of Jew Süss is a masterful work of history and an illuminating parable about Jewish life in the fraught transition to modernity.

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