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Beyond Expulsion: Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg

Beyond Expulsion: Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg

Hardcover

Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

AnthropologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0804774420
ISBN13: 9780804774420
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jul 26 2011
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Beyond Expulsion is a history of Jewish-Christian interactions in early modern Strasbourg, a city from which the Jews had been expelled and banned from residence in the late fourteenth century. This study shows that the Jews who remained in the Alsatian countryside continued to maintain relationships with the city and its residents in the ensuing period. During most of the sixteenth century, Jews entered Strasbourg on a daily basis, where they participated in the city's markets, litigated in its courts, and shared their knowledge of Hebrew and Judaica with Protestant Reformers. By the end of the sixteenth century, Strasbourg became an increasingly orthodox Lutheran city, and city magistrates and religious leaders sought to curtail contact between Jews and Christians. This book unearths the active Jewish participation in early modern society, traces the impact of the Reformation on local Jews, discusses the meaning of tolerance, and describes the shifting boundaries that divided Jewish and Christian communities.

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