| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) : maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Forstreuter, Kurt.
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Forstreuter, Kurt. |
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Teutonic Knights -- Historiography.
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Teutonic Knights. |
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Historiography. |
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Medievalists -- Germany -- Biography.
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Medievalists. |
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Germany. |
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Biographies.
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Jews -- Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) -- History -- To 1500.
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| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Jews. |
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Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) -- Ethnic relations.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany. |
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History. |
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HISTORY -- Jewish. |
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Ethnic relations. |
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Europe -- East Prussia (Poland and Russia) |
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Added Title |
Kurt Forstreuter and the historiography of medieval Prussia |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Hess, Cordelia. Absent Jews. New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 9781785334924 (DLC) 2016054877 |
| ISBN |
9781785334931 electronic book |
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178533493X electronic book |
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9781785334924 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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