TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heß, Cordelia
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017//
TI  - absent Jews: Kurt Forstreuter and the historiography of medieval Prussia
PB  - Berghahn
CY  - New York
KW  - Forstreuter, Kurt
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Teutonic Knights
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Jews
KW  - Prussia, East (Poland and Russia)
KW  - History
KW  - Medievalists
KW  - Germany
KW  - Biography
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Prussia, East
AB  - For nearly a century, it has been a commonplace of Central European history that there were no Jews in medieval Prussia-the result, supposedly, of the ruling Teutonic Order's attempts to create a purely Christian crusader's state. In this groundbreaking historical investigation, however, medievalist Cordelia Hess demonstrates the very weak foundations upon which that assumption rests. In exacting detail, she traces this narrative to the work of a single, minor Nazi-era historian, revealing it to be ideologically compromised work that badly mishandles its evidence. By combining new medieval scholarship with a biographical and historiographical exploration grounded in the 20th century, The Absent Jews spans remote eras while offering a fascinating account of the construction of historical knowledge
SN  - 9781785334924
LA  - English
N1  - Cordelia Hess
ID  - 873933907
ER  -