Jewish identity in early modern Germany
Subtitle: memory, power and community
By: Dean Phillip Bell
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780754658979
Subjects: Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1096-1800; Jews -- Germany -- Historiography; Judaism -- Historiography; History -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Memory -- Religious aspects -- Judaism; Reformation -- Germany -- History; Germany -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-178) and index
Table of contents: value: Memory, history, and Jewish identity; value: Reconsidering early modern German Jewish memory and history; value: Community, memory, and governance; value: Jewish social organization : the role of memory, power, and honor; value: Politics, polemics, and history : assessing Jewish identity; value: From law to legend : narrating Jewish and Christian encounters