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Out Of The (Historiographic) Ghetto: Jews And The Reformation, Magda Teter, Debra Kaplan
Out Of The (Historiographic) Ghetto: Jews And The Reformation, Magda Teter, Debra Kaplan
Magda Teter
Existing historiography has created a historiographic ghetto, seldom considering Jewish sources and Jews as relevant to the larger narrative of European history. This has created two parallel, often disconnected areas of study, “European history” and “Jewish history.” Archival materials from across Europe strongly show that Jews and Christians resided side by side and interacted on a daily basis in early modern Europe. Reformation Strasbourg and post-Reformation Poland, two geographically and demographically diverse cases offer new insights about the past by including sources about Jews. In Reformation Strasbourg, cross-confessional collaboration was more frequent than previously imagined, as leaders of different Christian …