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Article: Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Literature.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2006
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Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Literature. By John D. Martin. (Studies in German Jewish History, 5) Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang. 2004. 253 pp. 29; SwF 65; 44.30 [euro]. ISBN 3-03910-068-8.
This monograph constitutes a very competent and cogently argued corrective to the view that the presentation of Jews in Middle High German and Early Modern German literature is almost universally negative, reflecting an equally universal racist hostility towards Jews among the target audiences of these texts. As the opening chapter shows, recent historians no longer seek to project back onto the Middle Ages the kind of racially oriented ...