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The Many Deaths of Jew Süss The Many Deaths of Jew Süss The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth- Century Court Jew Yair Mintzker PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright © 2017 by Princeton University Press Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to Permissions, Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock, Oxfordshire OX20 1TR press.princeton.edu Jacket art: Adapted from Elias Beck's woodcut, A True Depiction of the Jew Süss and His Room in the Herrenhaus, 1738. Courtesy of Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Graphic Collection All Rights Reserved ISBN 978- 0- 691- 17232- 3 Library of Congress Control Number 2017934500 British Library Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available This book has been composed in Minion Pro Printed on acid- free paper. ∞ Printed in the United States of America 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 In memory of the Langberg and Satin families ףלא הזה םינוקיאה ׃ןנחוי יבר רמא דחא לכ ٫הב םיטיבמ םדא ינב ٫שרדמ( .תטבמ איה יב רמוא דחאו י)6 אכ יתבר אתקיספ Contents Acknowledgments ix Note to Readers xi Introduction 1 First Conversation 23 1. The Inquisitor 25 Part 1: Vita Ante Acta 25 Part 2: Species Facti 55 Second Conversation 100 2. A Convert’s Tale 103 Third Conversation 171 3. Joseph and His Brothers 177 Fourth Conversation 224 4. In the Land of the Dead 231 Afterword 280 viii Contents List of Illustrations 287 List of Abbreviations 289 Notes 291 Index 323 Acknowledgments During the seven years it took me to research and write this book, I received generous financial support from the Institute for Ad- vanced Study in Princeton and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, as well as from Princeton’s History Department, the Class of 1942 Preceptorship in History, and the University Committee on Re- search in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In Germany, my research was facilitated by conversations with a series of archi- vists, librarians, and fellow historians. I thank especially Gudrun Emberger, Sonja Grund, Alexandra Haas, Uwe Jens Wandel, Ron- ald Fischer, Reinhard Mayer- Kalkus, and the indefatigable Thomas Reimer. One of the greatest pleasures in working on this project was to meet and befriend Hellmut Haasis, whose courage and generosity I shall not soon forget. Hellmut: bleib xond. Keith Baker, David Bell, Elisheva Carlebach, Laura Kounine, Natasha Mhatre, H. C. Erik Midelfort, Hannah Mintzker, Lyndal Roper, James J. Sheehan, and Hari Sidhar read drafts of individual chap- ters or the manuscript as a whole. I am grateful for their com- ments and for saving me from many factual and interpretative errors. Any that remain are of course my very own. Carolina Al- varado, Brooke Fitzgerald, and especially Sara Marcus helped with crucial editorial advice during the final preparation of the manuscript; Tsering Wangyal Shawa prepared the maps; Daniela
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