Recommendation Whether to Confiscate, Destroy and Burn All Jewish Books
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Recommendation Whether to Confiscate, Destroy and Burn All Jewish Books by Johann Reuchlin
This modest little text, written in 1510 at the request of the Holy Roman Emperor who was under pressure to burn all Jewish religious books, is a landmark in the history of Jewish-Christian dialogue. In it, Johannes Reuchlin, legal scholar and enlightened thinker, was asked by the emperor to render an opinion and defended the rights of the Jews to live alongside Christians and to retain their sacred books. Reuchlin's response to the situation could be summed up as: Do not burn what you do not understand. Reuchlin brought revilement and persecution upon himself, but his courageous defense of Jewish books put an end to the attempt to destroy them. In her historical introduction Elisheva Carlsbach paints a superb picture of the period and the state of antisemitism in Europe in the sixteenth century. - until now this work has been inaccessible to English-speaking readers
Peter Wortsman is a correspondent in New York for the French Literary Review, Courants d'Ombre, and a novelist and literary critic.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780809139729 |
| ISBN 10 | 0809139723 |
| Title | Recommendation Whether to Confiscate, Destroy and Burn All Jewish Books |
| Author | Johann Reuchlin |
| Series | Studies In Judaism And Christianity |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Paulist Press International,U.S. |
| Year published | 2000-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 88 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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