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5
Quoted in Chazan,
In the Year 1096
, 31.
6
Ibid., 31.
7
Ibid., 78–79.
8
Krey,
First Crusade: Accounts
, 56; Peters,
The First Crusade
, 104, quoted in Leonard B. Glick,
Abraham’s Heirs: Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe
(Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999), 102–103.
9
Bernard of Clairvaux,
The Letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux
, trans. Bruno James (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1953), 462 –63, quoted in Glick,
Abraham’s Heirs
, 122.
1
Quoted in Robert Chazan,
Medieval Stereotypes and Modern Antisemitism
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), 64.
2
Thomas of Monmouth,
The Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich
, trans. and ed. Augustus Jessopp and Montague Rhodes James (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1896), 21–22.
3
“The Letter of Nathan ben Rabbi Meshullam,” quoted in Robert Chazan, ed.,
Church, State, and Jew in the Middle Ages
(West Orange: Behrman House, 1980), 117.
4
Emperor Frederick II, 1236, quoted in Chazan, ed.,
Church, State, and Jew in the Middle Ages
, 125–126.
5
“A Bull of Pope Gregory X,” October 7, 1272, quoted in Jacob Rader Marcus,
The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source Book, 315-1791
, rev. ed. (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1999), 171–172.
6
“That Jews Should be Distinguished from Christians in Dress,” decree of the Fourth Lateran Council, November 1215, quoted in Marcus,
The Jew in the Medieval World
, 154–155.
1
Jacob von Königshofen, “The Cremation of Strasbourg Jewry St. Valentine’s Day,” February 14, 1349, quoted in Jacob Rader Marcus, ed.,
The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source Book, 315–1791
, rev. ed. (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1999), 51–52.
2
H. A. R. Gibb, trans. and ed.,
Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa
, (London: Broadway House, 1929), 69.
3
Königshofen, “The Cremation of Strasbourg Jewry,” quoted in Marcus, ed.,
The Jew in the Medieval World
, 52.
4
Ibid., 53.
5
Isaac Abravanel,
Commentary to the Prophets
, quoted and trans. in Benjamin Blech,
Eyewitness to Jewish History
(Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2004), 148.
6
“The Diary of Luis De Torres” in the
Los Angeles Jewish Times
, December 24, 1999, quoted in Blech,
Eyewitness to Jewish History
, 149–150.
1
Fernand Braudel,
Civilization & Capitalism, 15th–18th Century
, vol. 1,
The Structures of Everyday Life: The Limits of the Possible
, trans. Siân Reynolds, (New York: Harper & Row, 1979), 400.
2
Johannes Reuchlin, quoted in Paul Kriwaczek,
Yiddish Civilisation: The Rise and Fall of a Forgotten Nation
(New York: Vintage Books, 2005), 166.
3
In Heinrich Graetz,
Geschichte der Juden
(Leipzig, 1873), 4:447 –448, quoted in Edward H. Flannery,
The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-Three Centuries of Antisemitism
, rev. ed. (New York: Stimulus, 1999), 151.
4
Martin Luther, “That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew,”
Luther’s Works
(Philadelphia: Muehlenberg and Fortress, and St. Louis: Concordia, 1955-86), 45:199–229, quoted in Jacob Rader Marcus, ed.,
The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source Book, 315–1791
, rev. ed. (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1999), 186–187.
5
Martin Luther, “Concerning the Jews and Their Lies,” 1543, quoted in Heiko A. Oberman,
The Roots of Anti-Semitism: In the Age of Renaissance and Reformation
, trans. James I. Porter (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1984), 124.
6
Sebastian Franck,
Chronik, Geschichte und Zeitbuch aller Sachen und Handlungen
, 1531, quoted in Kriwaczek,
Yiddish Civilisation
, 169.
7
R. Po-chia Hsia,
The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988), 3.
8
I. Kracauer, “Rabbi Joselmann De Rosheym,”
Revue des Études Juives
(Paris) 16 (1888), in Kriwaczek,
Yiddish Civilisation
, 170.
9
Quoted in Abba Eban,
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
(New York: Summit Books, 1984), 201.
10
Martin Luther, “Concerning the Jews and Their Lies,”
Luther’s Works
, 45:199–229, quoted in Marcus, ed.,
The Jew in the Medieval World
, 187–189.
11
Andreas Osiander,
Andreas Osianders Schrift über die Blutbeschuldigung
(Berlin, 1903), Moritz Stern, ed., 6–7, quoted in Hsia,
The Myth of Ritual Murder
, 137.
12
“The Council of Trent,” quoted in William Nicholls,
Christian Antisemitism: A History of Hate
(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1993), 267.
13
Paul IV,
Cum nimis absurdum
, Papal Bill, July 14, 1555.
14
Sultan Suleiman to Pope Paul IV, 9 March 1556, in
Lettre di Principi
, ed. Girolama Ruscelli (Venice, 1581), 1:177–8, quoted in Cecil Roth,
Doña Gracia of the House of Nasi
, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1977), 151–152.
15
Roger Williams,
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution
(1644).
1
Quoted in Bernard D. Weinryb,
The Jews of Poland: A Social and Economic History of the Jewish Community in Poland from 1100–1800
(Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1972), 124.
2
Quoted in Weinryb,
The Jews of Poland
, 26.
3
Zbignyev Oleshnitzki to Casimir IV, May 1454, quoted in S. M. Dubnow,
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland
, vol. 1,
From the Beginning until the Death of Alexander I (1825)
, trans. I. Friedlaender (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1916), 62.
4
Weinryb,
The Jews of Poland
, 152–153.
5
Solomon Luria,
Yam Shel Shlomo
, Baba Batra 10:21, quoted in Weinryb,
The Jews of Poland
, 166.
6
Quoted in Abba Eban,
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
(New York: Summit Books, 1984), 212.
7
Nathan Hanover,
Abyss of Despair (Yeven Metzulah)
, trans. by Abraham J. Mesch (New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1983), 27–28.
8
Quoted in Lucy S. Dawidowicz,
The Golden Tradition: Jewish Life and Thought in Eastern Europe
(New York: Schocken Books, 1967), 10.
9
Quoted in Cecil Roth,
Doña Gracia of the House of Nasi
, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1977), 90.
10
Allan Levine,
Scattered Among the Peoples: The Jewish Diaspora in Twelve Portraits
(Woodstock, NY: Overlook Duckworth, 2003), 85.
11
Heinrich Graetz, Geschichte der Juden
(Leipzig, 1875), 8:423–425, in Franz Kobler, ed.,
Letters of Jews Through the Ages
(London, 1953), 1:282–285, quoted in Bernard Lewis,
The Jews of Islam
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984), 136.
12
The Memoirs of Glückel of Hameln
, trans. Marvin Lowenthal (New York: Schocken Books, 1989), 46–47.
1
Immanuel Kant, “An Answer to the Question: What Is the Enlightenment?” (1784), quoted in Vincent G. Potter, ed.,
Readings in Epistemology from Aquinas, Bacon, Galileo, Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant
, 2nd rev. ed. (New York: Fordham University Press, 1993), 226.
2
Mendelssohn,
Gesammelte Schriften
, 5:566, quoted in Amos Elon,
The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743–1933
(New York: Picador, 2002), 63.
3
Voltaire, “Juifs,”
Dictionnaire Philosophique in Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire
(Paris, 1785) 56:152, quoted in Robert S. Wistrich,
Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred
(New York: Schocken Books, 1991), 45.
4
Johann Jacob Schudt,
Jüdishche Merkwürdigkeiten
(Frankfurt: 1715–1717), 1:19, quoted in Hannah Arendt,
The Origins of Totalitarianism
(San Diego: Harvest, 1976), 63.
5
H. Spiel,
Fanny von Arnstein, oder die Emanzipation
(Vienna, 1975), quoted in Elon,
The Pity of It All
, 14.
6
H. Heuback, ed.,
Jüdisches Leben in Frankfurt, Materialen
, vol. 1, 1462–1796 (Frankfurt, 1988), 88–89, quoted in Elon,
The Pity of It All
, 29.
7
Christian Wilhelm von Dohn, “Concerning the Amelioration of the Civil Status of the Jews” in Ellis Rivkin, ed.,
Readings in Modern Jewish History
, trans. Helen Lederer (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, 1957), 5–7, 9–22, 50–71, quoted in Paul R. Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, eds.,
The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History
, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 31.
8
Moses Mendelssohn, “Anmerkung zu des Ritters Michaelis Beurtheilung des ersten Theils von Dohm, ueber die buergerliche Verbesserung der Juden” (1783), in
Moses Mendelssohns gesammelte Schriften
, G. B. Mendelssohn, ed. (Leipzig, 1843), vol. 3, 365–67, trans. J. Hessing, quoted in Mendes-Flohr and Reinharz, eds.,
The Jew in the Modern World
, 48.
9
Omichund v. Barker, 23 February 1774,
Cases argued and determined in the Court of Common Pleas. Reports of Chief Justice Willes, 1737–60
, ed. C. Durnford, 538–54, in M. C. N. Salbstein,
The Emancipation of the Jews in Britain: The Question of the Admission of the Jews to Parliament
(East Brunswick, 1982), 46–7, quoted in David Vital,
A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789–1939
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 40.
10
Bernard Glassman,
Protean Prejudice: Anti-Semitism in England’s Age of Reason
(Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998), 185.
11
Abraham Cohen,
An Anglo-Jewish Scrapbook, 1600–1840: The Jew Through English Eyes
, 324, quoted in Glassman,
Protean Prejudice
, 177.
12
Achille-Edmond Halphen, Recueil des Lois, Décrets, ordonnances, avis du conseil d’état,
Arrêtés et Règlements concernant les Israélites depuis la Révolution de 1789
(Paris, 1851), 184 –189, trans. J. Rubin, quoted in Mendes-Flohr and Reinharz, eds.,
The Jew in the Modern World
, 115.
13
Ibid., 115
14
Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook
(1964) 9:211, quoted in Elon,
The Pity of It All
, 108.
15
Yigal Lossin,
Heine: His Double Life
(New York: Schocken Books, 2000).
16
Quoted in Gordon A. Craig,
The Germans
(New York: Meridian, 1991), 135.
17
Ibid., 136.
18
Quoted in Howard M. Sachar,
A History of the Jews in the Modern World
(New York: Vintage Books, 2005), 81.
19
Gabriel Riesser,
Gesammelte Schriften
, (Frankfurt, 1867–68), 2:679, quoted in Elon,
The Pity of It All
, 177.
20
Quoted in Sachar,
A History of the Jews in the Modern World
, 81.
21
Gabriel Riesser,
Gesammelte Schriften
, Das Comite der Reisser-Stiftung, ed. Z. Isler (Leipzig, 1867), 2:131, 133, 150, 152, 183ff, trans. M. Gerber and P. Mendes-Flohr, quoted in Mendes-Flohr and Reinharz, eds.,
The Jew in the Modern World
, 145.