The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew

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By Yair Mintzker

Published May 31, 2017

Joseph Süss Oppenheimer — “Jew Süss” — is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. He was hanged for unspecified “misdeeds” after the death of German Duke Carl Alexander. Yair Mintzker, associate professor of history at Princeton University, writes a new account of his notorious trial in The Many Deaths of Jew Süss (Princeton University Press), drawing on accounts from Jew Süss’s contemporaries, and taking nothing they say at face value.

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