Jews, Judaism, and the Reformation in Sixteenth-Century Germany

Scholars of history and religion examine how the Christian Reformation affected Jews in Germany, which was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe. They consider the road to reformation; reformers and the Jews; representation of Jews and Judaism; and Jews, Judaism, and responses to the Reformation. Among the topics are German theologians and the Jews in the 15th century, Philip Melanchthon, Calvin, Andreas Osiander, Anthonius Margaritha on the "whole Jewish faith:" a 16th-century convert from Judaism and his depiction of the Jewish religion, visual representations of Jews and Judaism in 16th-century Germany, Jewish responses to Christianity in Reformation Germany, and German Jewish printing in the Reformation era 1530-1633. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Dean Philip Bell (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995) is Dean/CAO of the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago. His research focuses on late medieval and early modern Germany and he is author ofSacred Communities: Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth-Century Germany (Brill, 2001).Stephen G. Burnett (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990) is Associate Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, and of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author ofFrom Christian Hebraism to Jewish Studies: Johannes Buxtorf (1564-1629) and Hebrew Learning in the Seventeenth-Century (Brill, 1996), and numerous articles on Christian Hebraism and Jewish printing in the early modern period.