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The absent Jews : Kurt Forstreuter and the historiography of medieval Prussia / Cordelia Hess.
Author
Hess, Cordelia
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Berghahn, 2017.
Description
ix, 323 pages : maps ; 24 cm
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D116.7.F67 H47 2017
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Subject(s)
Medievalists
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Germany
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Biography
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Jews
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Prussia, East (Poland and Russia)
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History
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To 1500
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Prussia, East (Poland and Russia)
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Ethnic relations
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Teutonic Knights
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Historiography
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Forstreuter, Kurt
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Biographies
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Summary note
For nearly a century, it has been a commonplace of Central European history that there were no Jews in medieval Prussia-the result, supposedly, of the ruling Teutonic Order's attempts to create a purely Christian crusader's state. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, however, medievalist Cordelia Hess demonstrates the very weak foundations upon which that assumption rests. In exacting detail, she traces this narrative to the work of a single, minor Nazi-era historian, revealing it to be ideologically compromised work that badly mishandles its evidence. By combining new medieval scholarship with a biographical and historiographical exploration grounded in the 20th century, The Absent Jews spans remote eras while offering a fascinating account of the construction of historical knowledge.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-311) and index.
Contents
Absent Jews: the rise of a truism and the loss of some forefathers
On the frontier
Archives at war
A ban on Jewish settlement?
Absent from Akko to the Baltic
Absent victims, absent violence: persecutions and blood libel
Beyond the bulwark: traces of Jewish life in medieval Prussia
The wreckage of history.
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ISBN
9781785334924 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
1785334921 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
2016054877
OCLC
961159078
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40027281508
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