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Author Hess, Cordelia, author.

Title The absent Jews : Kurt Forstreuter and the historiography of medieval Prussia / Cordelia Hess
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) : maps
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 04, 2022)
Subject Forstreuter, Kurt.
SUBJECT Forstreuter, Kurt fast
Subject Teutonic Knights -- Historiography
SUBJECT Teutonic Knights fast
Subject Medievalists -- Germany -- Biography
Jews -- Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
HISTORY -- Jewish.
Ethnic relations
Historiography
Jews
Medievalists
SUBJECT Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Germany
Europe -- East Prussia (Poland and Russia)
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016055447
ISBN 9781785334931
178533493X
Other Titles Kurt Forstreuter and the historiography of medieval Prussia