Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Contributors

A Note on Spelling and Referencing

Introduction

1 Jonathan Adams and Cordelia Heß

Jewish Life and Books under Scrutiny: Ethnography, Polemics, and Converts

I Life and campaigns

2 David H. Price

Johannes Pfefferkorn and Imperial Politics

3 Franz Posset

In Search of the Historical Pfefferkorn: The Missionary to the Jews, 1507–1508

4 Avner Shamir

Johannes Pfefferkorn and the Dual Form of the Confiscation Campaign

II Books and dissemination

5 Jan-Hendryk de Boer

Pfefferkorn’s Books or the Most Rational Man in the World

6 Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig

Synagoga Veritas? Johannes Pfefferkorn and his Synagogue Descriptions in the buchlijn der iuden beicht

7 Cordelia Heß

Jew-Hatred Sells? Anti-Jewish Print Production in the German Dialects

8 Jonathan Adams

“Thus shall Christian people know to punish them”: Translating Pfefferkorn into Danish

III Converts, ethnography, and polemics

9 Maria Diemling

Patronage, Representation, and Conversion: Victor von Carben (1423–1515) and his Social Networks

10 Stephen G. Burnett

Luther’s Chief Witness: Anthonius Margaritha’s Der gantz Jüdisch glaub (1530/1531)

11 Yaacov Deutsch

The Reception History of Ethnographic Literature about the Jews

12 Ryan W. Szpiech

From Convert to Convert: Two Opposed Trends in Late Medieval and Early Modern Anti-Jewish Polemic

13 Imanuel Clemens Schmidt

Revealing the Absurdity of Jewish Hopes: From Polemical Ethnography to Basnage’s L’Histoire des Juifs

14 Markéta Kabůrková

Tela Ignea Satanae: Christian Scholars and the Editing of Hebrew Polemical Literature

15 Avery Gosfield

Gratias post mensam in diebus festiuis cum cantico hebrayim: A New Look at an Early Sixteenth-Century Tzur Mishelo

Works Attributed to Johannes Pfefferkorn

Bibliography

Indices