Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Literature : Second Printing - John D. Martin

Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Literature

Second Printing

By: John D. Martin

Paperback | 14 November 2005 | Edition Number 2

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It is commonly held that medieval Christians viewed medieval Jews in exclusively negative terms. This is certainly the dominant opinion in much twentieth-century scholarship, and it is not wholly without justification. It is, however, an opinion that does not accurately reflect the breadth of medieval German Christian thinking about medieval German Jews. Drawing on Passion plays, hagiographical narratives and didactic literature, this monograph reveals a hitherto largely unacknowledged diversity in medieval German representations of Jews. In many of the best-attested texts from the late medieval and early modern periods, Jews appear in German literature as sympathetic, even morally exemplary figures.
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...mit der Arbeit John D. Martins [liegt] eine solide, ausgewogene... Untersuchung vor, die einen erheblichen Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Reprasentation von Juden in spatmittelalterlicher und fruhmoderner deutscher Literatur darstellt. (Arvi Sepp, German Studies Review)
Seine Studie liefert sowohl eine verlassliche und abgewogene Sichtung der bisherigen Forschung als auch eine wertvolle eigene Positionierung auf diesem so problematischen Feld deutscher Literaturgeschichte. (Martin Przybilski, Das Mittelalter)
This monograph constitutes a very competent and cogently argued corrective to the view that the presentation of Jews in Middle High German and Early Modern German literature is almost universally negative, reflecting an equally universal racist hostility towards Jews among the target audiences of these texts. (Annette Volfing, The Modern Language Review)

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