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The many deaths of Jew Süss: the notorious trial and execution of an eighteenth-century court Jew

By Joseph , Mintzker , Yair;Süss-Oppenheimer

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780691172323, 9781400887804, 1400887801
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (21420937 bytes)
Pages
illustrations (black and white), maps (black and w
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, 'Jew Süss', is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the 'court Jew' of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Württemberg. When Carl Alexander died unexpectedly, the Württemberg authorities arrested Oppenheimer, put him on trial, and condemned him to death for unspecified misdeeds. On February 4, 1738, Oppenheimer was hanged in front of a large crowd just outside Stuttgart. He is most often remembered today through several works of fiction, chief among them a vicious Nazi propaganda movie made in 1940 at the behest of Joseph Goebbels. This text is an account of Oppenheimer's notorious trial.

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