In and out of the Ghetto
Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany

Table of Contents

Introduction R. Po-Chia Hsia
Opening essay Jacob Katz
Part I. Jewish Cultural Identity and the Price of Exclusiveness: The Legacy of the Middle Ages:
1. The Jewish quarters in German towns during the late Middle Ages Alfred Haverkamp
2. Organisational forms of Jewish popular culture since the Middle Ages Christoph Daxelmüller
3. Criminality and punishment of the Jews in the early modern period Otto Ulbricht
4. Jews and Gentiles in the Holy Roman Empire - a comment Theodore K. Rabb
Part II. The Social and Economic Structure of German Jewry from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century:
5. Aspects of stratification of early modern German Jewry: population history and village Jews Michael Toch
6. The economic activity of the Jews in early modern times Stefi Jersch-Wenzel
7. Comparative perspectives on economy and society - a comment Gershon David Hundert
Part III. Jewish-Gentile Contacts and Relations in the Pre-Emancipation Period:
8. Languages in contact: the case of Rotwelsch and the two Yiddisches Paul Wexler
9. Meeting on the road: encounters between German Jews and Christians on the margins of society Yacov Guggenheim
10. Contacts at the bedside: Jewish physicians and their Christian patients Robert Jütte
11. Contacts and relations in the pre-emancipation period - a comment Deborah Hertz
Part IV. Representations of German Jewry: Images, Prejudices, and Ideas:
12. The usurious Jew: economic structure and religious representations in an anti Semitic discourse R. Po-Chia Hsia
13. Imagining the Jew: the late medieval eucharistic discourse Miri Rubin
14. Representations of German Jewry - a comment Carlo Ginzburg
Part V. The Pattern of Authority and the Limits of Toleration: The Case of German Jewry:
15. German territorial princes and the Jews Rotraud Ries
16. Jews in ecclesiastical territories of the Holy Roman Empire J. Friedrich Battenberg
17. Jews in the imperial cities: a political perspective Christopher R. Friedrichs
18. Germans with a difference? The Holy Roman Empire's Jews during the early modern era - a comment Thomas A. Brady, Jr
Part VI. In and Out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany:
19. Germany and its Jews: a changing relationship (1500–1800) Jonathan I. Israel
20. The Jewish minority and the Christian majority in early modern central Europe Hartmut Lehmann
21. Germans and Jews in late medieval and early modern Germany Richard H. Popkin
22. Jewish identity in a world of corporations and estates Mack Walker.

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