The Absent Jews : : Kurt Forstreuter and the Historiography of Medieval Prussia / / Cordelia Hess.
For nearly a century, it has been a commonplace of Central European history that there were no Jews in medieval Prussia—the result, supposedly, of the ruling Teutonic Order’s attempts to create a purely Christian crusader’s state. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, however, medievalist...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Absent Jews: The Rise of a Truism and the Loss of Some Forefathers
- Chapter 2 On the Frontier
- Chapter 3 Archives at War
- Chapter 4 A Ban on Jewish Settlement?
- Chapter 5 Absent from Akko to the Baltic
- Chapter 6 Absent Victims, Absent Violence: Persecutions and Blood Libel
- Chapter 7 Beyond the Bulwark: Traces of Jewish Life in Medieval Prussia
- Conclusion: The Wreckage of History
- Bibliography
- Index