Hans Arnhold Center Library

Johannes Reuchlin and the campaign to destroy Jewish books /

Price, David, 1957-

Johannes Reuchlin and the campaign to destroy Jewish books / David H. Price. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - ix, 355 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

impermissibly favorable to Jews? -- Humanist origins -- Humanism at court -- Discovery of Hebrew -- Johannes Pfefferkorn and the campaign against Jews -- Who saved the Jewish books? -- Inquisition -- Trial at Rome and the Christian debates -- The Luther affair -- As if the first martyr of Hebrew letters.

9780195394214 (hardcover) 9780199974948 (pbk.)

2010001092


Reuchlin, Johann, 1455-1522


Judaism--Relations--Christianity
Christianity and other religions--Judaism
Jewish literature--Censorship--History--Germany--16th century.
Humanism--History--Germany--16th century.
Scholasticism--History--Germany--16th century.

Fellow Carol Kahn Strauss Fellow in Jewish Studies Class of Fall 2023

B785.R64 / P75 2011

261.2/609031
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