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THE MANY DEATHS OF JEW SueSS
The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew
Joseph Suess Oppenheimer"Jew Suess"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 Wuerttemberg. When Carl Alexander died unexpectedly, the Wuerttemberg 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.
THE MANY DEATHS OF JEW SueSS 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 disgracebut 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 Suess" in his final days that is at once moving, disturbing, and profound.
Yair Mintzker is associate professor of history at Princeton University.
DIE VIELEN TODE DES JUD SueSS
Justizmord an einem Hofjuden
Deutsch von Felix Kurz
[HC Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 10/2020]
THE MANY DEATHS OF JEW SueSS 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 disgracebut 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 Suess" in his final days that is at once moving, disturbing, and profound.
Yair Mintzker is associate professor of history at Princeton University.
DIE VIELEN TODE DES JUD SueSS
Justizmord an einem Hofjuden
Deutsch von Felix Kurz
[HC Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 10/2020]
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Published 2017-05-01 by Princeton University Press |