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Product Description: The Leipzig Mahzor is one of the most lavish Hebrew illuminated manuscripts of all time. A prayer book used during Jewish holidays, it was produced in the Middle Ages for the Jewish community of Worms in the German Rhineland. Though Worms was a vibrant center of Judaism in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and drew celebrated rabbis, little is known about the city's Jews in the later Middle Ages...read more
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9780674064546 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 17, 2012, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: The Leipzig Mahzor is one of the most lavish Hebrew illuminated manuscripts of all time.
Product Description: Although Jews in early modern Germany produced little in the way of formal historiography, Jews nevertheless engaged the past for many reasons and in various and surprising ways. They narrated the past in order to enforce order, empower authority, and record the traditions of their communities...read more
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9780754658979 | Ashgate Pub Co, August 31, 2007, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Although Jews in early modern Germany produced little in the way of formal historiography, Jews nevertheless engaged the past for many reasons and in various and surprising ways.
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9780391041455 | Brill Academic Pub, May 1, 2004, cover price $150.00
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9780391042278 | Brill Academic Pub, February 25, 2005, cover price $79.00
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9780860788966 | Variorum, June 1, 2003, cover price $170.00
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9780391041028 | Brill Academic Pub, December 1, 2001, cover price $150.00
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9780773471542 | Edwin Mellen Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Brand New.
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9780872031555 | Sepher Hermon Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $25.00
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9783791316246 | Prestel Pub, October 1, 1996, cover price $65.00
From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, German Jews were persecuted and tried for the alleged ritual murders of Christian children, whose blood purportedly played a crucial part in Jewish magical rites. In this engrossing book R. Po-Chia Hsia traces the rise and decline of ritual murder trials during that period. Using sources ranging from Christian and Kabbalistic treatises to judicial records and popular pamphlets, Hsia examines the religious sources of the idea of child sacrifice and blood symbolism and reconstructs the political context of ritual murder trials against the Jews. ÂThis volume combines clarity of thinking, elegance of style, and exemplary scholarly attention to detail with intellectual sobriety and human compassion.âÂJerome Friedman, Sixteenth Century Journal ÂHsia hasÂ
succeeded in turning established knowledge to illuminatingly new purposes.âÂG.R. Elton, New York Review of Books ÂThis meticulously researched and unusually perceptive book is social and intellectual history at its best.âÂLibrary Journal ÂA fresh perspective on an old problem by a major new talent.âÂSteven Ozment, Harvard University R. Po-chia Hsia, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is also the author of Society and Religion in Münster, 1535-1618
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9780300041200 | Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 1988, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, German Jews were persecuted and tried for the alleged ritual murders of Christian children, whose blood purportedly played a crucial part in Jewish magical rites.
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9780300047462 | Reprint edition (Yale Univ Pr, September 10, 1990), cover price $29.00
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9780889200227 | Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr, April 1, 1976, cover price $32.95
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