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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Contributors xi
6. A Note on Spelling and Referencing xvii
7. Introduction
8. 1. Jewish Life and Books under Scrutiny: Ethnography, Polemics, and Converts 3
9. I. Life and campaigns
10. 2. Johannes Pfefferkorn and Imperial Politics 27
11. 3. In Search of the Historical Pfefferkorn: The Missionary to the Jews, 1507–1508 43
12. 4. Johannes Pfefferkorn and the Dual Form of the Confiscation Campaign 61
13. II. Books and dissemination
14. 5. Pfefferkorn’s Books or the Most Rational Man in the World 79
15. 6. Synagoga Veritas? Johannes Pfefferkorn and his Synagogue Descriptions in the buchlijn der iuden beicht 97
16. 7. Jew-Hatred Sells? Anti-Jewish Print Production in the German Dialects 121
17. 8. “Thus shall Christian people know to punish them”: Translating Pfefferkorn into Danish 135
18. III. Converts, ethnography, and polemics
19. 9. Patronage, Representation, and Conversion: Victor von Carben (1423–1515) and his Social Networks 157
20. 10. Luther’s Chief Witness: Anthonius Margaritha’s Der gantz Jüdisch glaub (1530/1531) 183
21. 11. The Reception History of Ethnographic Literature about the Jews 201
22. 12. From Convert to Convert: Two Opposed Trends in Late Medieval and Early Modern Anti-Jewish Polemic 219
23. 13. Revealing the Absurdity of Jewish Hopes: From Polemical Ethnography to Basnage’s L’Histoire des Juifs 245
24. 14. Tela Ignea Satanae: Christian Scholars and the Editing of Hebrew Polemical Literature 261
25. 15. Gratias post mensam in diebus festiuis cum cantico :העברײם A New Look at an Early Sixteenth- Century Tzur Mishelo 275
26. Works Attributed to Johannes Pfefferkorn 297
27. Bibliography 301
28. Indices 319