The rabbi and the Holy Roman Empire

Jerusalem Post | April 21, 1996| | Copyright

SRAYA SHAPIRO
Jerusalem Post
04-21-1996
Some 500 years ago, Josel of Rosheim, citing "the natural right to live" and the "Christian precept of charity," requested that kings, townspeople and peasants allow Jews to reside and trade in the German empire. In his Chronicles, written in Hebrew, he recorded examples of the persecution against which he struggled. Dr. Chava Fraenkel-Goldschmidt published and annotated the facsimile of his manuscript, as preserved in the Bodleian Library in Oxford, in a 420-page volume, recently published by the Magnes Press of the Hebrew University.

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