Hand mirror
The hand mirror is a text that appeared in 1511 in the course of the dispute over the burning of Jewish books and was written by Johannes Pfefferkorn . Pfefferkorn was directed against the Jews and against his opponents on the Christian side, above all against Johannes Reuchlin , who positioned himself against Pfefferkorn with his ophthalmoscope . The main aim of this work was to refute Johannes Reuchlin's positive opinion on the Talmud , whose arguments Pfefferkorn worked through word for word in the first chapters. He accused Reuchlin of not having followed his line clearly and demanded a clear statement from him, possibly even an apology for his mistakes. He also criticized the fact that Reuchlin admitted that he had never read the Talmud, but still dared to say something about its content. Anti-Jewish prejudices, such as B. desecration of the host were included. In the second part, Pfefferkorn tried to describe the genesis of the Talmud, which was once good but has now been completely falsified by the Jews .
Title of the font
"Does Spiegel Johannis Pfefferkorn oppose and against the Jews and Jewish Thalmudic writings, if they sing and read about the Christian regiment, which goths lesterer, heretics and superstitious of the old new, and of the natural law, tented, called, defeated and dismissed That’s why there’s a number of crists who oppose me, and that’s supposed to refute my articles. I have responded to this and resolved with modest words ... "
literature
- Avraham Siluk (editor): The Reuchlin-Pfefferkorn dispute over the Jewish books . In: Privilegien, Pogroms, Emanzipation: German-Jewish history from the Middle Ages to the present. Model project in the Leo Baeck program, ed. by Reinhard Neebe online
Individual evidence
- ^ Handt Spiegel Johannis Pfefferkorn at books.google.de, accessed on February 22, 2012
literature
- Avraham Siluk (editor): The Reuchlin-Pfefferkorn dispute over the Jewish books . In: Privilegien, Pogroms, Emanzipation: German-Jewish history from the Middle Ages to the present. Model project in the Leo Baeck program, ed. by Reinhard Neebe online