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Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish BooksDavid H. Price
Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books
A detailed history of the attempt by Johannes Pfefferkorn and the Cologne Dominicans to confiscate Jewish books in the Holy Roman Empire, and of Reuchlin's decade-long trial. Price sets the controversy within imperial politics, humanist publishing and the history of Christian Hebraism.






