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Yair Mintzker
Many Deaths of Jew Süss
The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew
2017. 344 S. 8 ill. 219 mm
Verlag/Jahr: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 2017
ISBN: 0-691-17232-3 (0691172323)
Neue ISBN: 978-0-691-17232-3 (9780691172323)
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The Many Deaths of Jew Süss is a compelling new account of Oppenheimer´s notorious trial. Drawing on a wealth of rare archival evidence, Yair Mintzker investigates conflicting versions of Oppenheimer´s life and death as told by four contemporaries: the leading inquisitor in the criminal investigation, the most important eyewitness to Oppenheimer´s final days, a fellow court Jew who was permitted to visit Oppenheimer on the eve of his execution, and one of Oppenheimer´s earliest biographers. What emerges is a lurid tale of greed, sex, violence, and disgrace - but are these narrators to be trusted? Meticulously reconstructing the social world in which they lived, and taking nothing they say at face value, Mintzker conjures an unforgettable picture of "Jew Süss" in his final days that is at once moving, disturbing, and profound.
"I couldn´t put this book down. Revisiting a notorious case of anti-Semitism, Mintzker excavates a mountain of contradictory evidence with penetrating intelligence, great erudition, and rich human sympathy. This is a resonant and profoundly original book." - Keith Michael Baker, Stanford University
Yair Mintzker is associate professor of history at Princeton University. He is the author of The Defortification of the German City, 16891866.