Yair Mintzker
Biographic Data
| ID | 518121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yair Mintzker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yair |
| FAMILY NAME | Mintzker |
| SIGNATURE | MINTZKER Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition
I, Ahasuerus: Monsieur Chouchani in Israel, 1952 56
I, Ahasuerus: Monsieur Chouchani in Israel, 1952-56
In October 1952, a mysterious man boarded a ship sailing from Marseille to Haifa. In the previous several years he had been living in France, where he was known as "Monsieur Chouchani" and taught Talmud to Elie Wiesel and Emmanuel Levinas, among others. Once in Israel, he went by the name "Ben Shoushan." In neither country did anyone know his true identity, but all who met him were astounded: Chouchani/Ben Shoushan appeared practically omniscient…
The Holy Roman Empire: A Short History
Holy Roman Empire: A Short History
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew
A groundbreaking historical reexamination of one of the most infamous episodes in the history of anti-Semitism Joseph Süss Oppenheimer—"Jew Süss"—is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the "court Jew" of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Württemberg. When Carl Alexander died unexpectedly, the Württemberg authorities arrested Oppenheimer, put him on trial, and condemned hi…
The many deaths of Jew Süss: The notorious trial and execution of an eighteenth-century court Jew
Joseph Süss Oppenheimer -"Jew Süss" - is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the "court Jew" of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Wurttemberg. When Carl Alexander died unexpectedly, the Wurttemberg authorities arrested Oppenheimer, put him on trial, and condemned him to death for unspecified "misdeeds." On February 4, 1738, Oppenheimer was hanged in front of a large crowd…
Joseph and His Brothers
This chapter examines the life and work of Mordechai Schloss, a Jewish notable who stood behind the publication of the only contemporary Jewish account of Joseph Süss' life and death. Schloss' own life story, and the important text he helped publish about Oppenheimer, together reveal much about the fraught relationships among Jews in 1730s Stuttgart. A careful reconstruction of this relationship will challenge many common assumptions about Oppenh…
Once Within Boundaries: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging
“As we know,” Foucault announced in a famous 1964 lecture, “the great obsession of the nineteenth century was history: themes of development and arrest, themes of crisis and cycle, themes of accumulation of the past, a great overload of dead people, the threat of global cooling.... The present age may be the age of space instead. We are in an era of the simultaneous, of juxtaposition, of the near and the far, of the side-by-side, of the scattered…
Rebellious Prussians: Urban Culture under Frederick the Great and his Successors
Journal Article Rebellious Prussians: Urban Culture under Frederick the Great and his Successors Get access Rebellious Prussians: Urban Culture under Frederick the Great and his Successors. By Florian Schui. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013. x + 221 pp. £60.00 (hardback). Yair Mintzker Yair Mintzker Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 32, Issue 1, March 2014, Pa…
The Paradox of Visual and Material Cultures in Mack Walker's German Home Towns
As far as visuality and materiality are concerned, Mack Walker's German Home Towns is a paradoxical work. In more than 400 pages of dense text about society, politics, and law in and around German towns from 1648 to 1871, the author devoted almost no space to the home towns' visual and material aspects. One would look in vain in this book for detailed descriptions of burghers' private and communal buildings; the layout of fortifications, streets,…
Oliver Zimmer. Remaking the Rhythms of Life: German Communities in the Age of the Nation-State
Journal Article Oliver Zimmer. Remaking the Rhythms of Life: German Communities in the Age of the Nation-State. Get access Oliver Zimmer. Remaking the Rhythms of Life: German Communities in the Age of the Nation-State. (Oxford Studies in Modern European History.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 395. $65.00. Yair Mintzker Yair Mintzker Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Th…
The Defortification of the German City, 1689–1866
In the early modern period, all German cities were fortified places. Because contemporary jurists have defined 'city' as a coherent social body in a protected place, the urban environment had to be physically separate from the surrounding countryside. This separation was crucial to guaranteeing the city's commercial, political and legal privileges. Fortifications were therefore essential for any settlement to be termed a city. This book tells the…
Between the Linguistic and the Spatial Turns: A Reconsideration of the Concept of Space and Its Role in the Early Modern Period
This exploratory essay seeks to unravel the inherent contradictions between two fundamental trends in contemporary historiography: the spatial turn on the one hand, and the linguistic turn on the other hand. The spatial turn, it argues, turned space's status as a category of analysis into an accepted dogma. Under these circumstances, one often overlooks the fact that space, like all concepts, can also be problematic and at times even misleading. …
A Word Newly Introduced into Language”: The Appearance and Spread of “Social” in French Enlightened Thought, 1745–1765
In the early 1760s, the entry dedicated to the term "social" in Diderot's Encyclopédie claimed that it was "un mot nouvellement introduit dans la langue." Strictly speaking, this description was inaccurate: "social" had already appeared (though very sporadically) in seventeenth-century French texts. But the essence of the Encyclopédie's argument was correct: "social" had been so marginal in French up until the mid-eighteenth century that its wide…
A Word Newly Introduced into Language”: The Appearance and Spread of “Social” in French Enlightened Thought, 1745–1765
In the early 1760s, the entry dedicated to the term "social" in Diderot's Encyclopédie claimed that it was "un mot nouvellement introduit dans la langue." Strictly speaking, this description was inaccurate: "social" had already appeared (though very sporadically) in seventeenth-century French texts. But the essence of the Encyclopédie's argument was correct: "social" had been so marginal in French up until the mid-eighteenth century that its wide…
Between the Linguistic and the Spatial Turns: A Reconsideration of the Concept of Space and Its Role in the Early Modern Period
This exploratory essay seeks to unravel the inherent contradictions between two fundamental trends in contemporary historiography: the spatial turn on the one hand, and the linguistic turn on the other hand. The spatial turn, it argues, turned space's status as a category of analysis into an accepted dogma. Under these circumstances, one often overlooks the fact that space, like all concepts, can also be problematic and at times even misleading. …
A Word Newly Introduced into Language”: The Appearance and Spread of “Social” in French Enlightened Thought, 1745–1765
In the early 1760s, the entry dedicated to the term "social" in Diderot's Encyclopédie claimed that it was "un mot nouvellement introduit dans la langue." Strictly speaking, this description was inaccurate: "social" had already appeared (though very sporadically) in seventeenth-century French texts. But the essence of the Encyclopédie's argument was correct: "social" had been so marginal in French up until the mid-eighteenth century that its wide…
Between the Linguistic and the Spatial Turns: A Reconsideration of the Concept of Space and Its Role in the Early Modern Period
This exploratory essay seeks to unravel the inherent contradictions between two fundamental trends in contemporary historiography: the spatial turn on the one hand, and the linguistic turn on the other hand. The spatial turn, it argues, turned space's status as a category of analysis into an accepted dogma. Under these circumstances, one often overlooks the fact that space, like all concepts, can also be problematic and at times even misleading. …
The Defortification of the German City, 1689–1866
In the early modern period, all German cities were fortified places. Because contemporary jurists have defined 'city' as a coherent social body in a protected place, the urban environment had to be physically separate from the surrounding countryside. This separation was crucial to guaranteeing the city's commercial, political and legal privileges. Fortifications were therefore essential for any settlement to be termed a city. This book tells the…
Rebellious Prussians: Urban Culture under Frederick the Great and his Successors
Journal Article Rebellious Prussians: Urban Culture under Frederick the Great and his Successors Get access Rebellious Prussians: Urban Culture under Frederick the Great and his Successors. By Florian Schui. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013. x + 221 pp. £60.00 (hardback). Yair Mintzker Yair Mintzker Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 32, Issue 1, March 2014, Pa…
The Paradox of Visual and Material Cultures in Mack Walker's German Home Towns
As far as visuality and materiality are concerned, Mack Walker's German Home Towns is a paradoxical work. In more than 400 pages of dense text about society, politics, and law in and around German towns from 1648 to 1871, the author devoted almost no space to the home towns' visual and material aspects. One would look in vain in this book for detailed descriptions of burghers' private and communal buildings; the layout of fortifications, streets,…
Oliver Zimmer. Remaking the Rhythms of Life: German Communities in the Age of the Nation-State
Journal Article Oliver Zimmer. Remaking the Rhythms of Life: German Communities in the Age of the Nation-State. Get access Oliver Zimmer. Remaking the Rhythms of Life: German Communities in the Age of the Nation-State. (Oxford Studies in Modern European History.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. ix, 395. $65.00. Yair Mintzker Yair Mintzker Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Th…
The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew
A groundbreaking historical reexamination of one of the most infamous episodes in the history of anti-Semitism Joseph Süss Oppenheimer—"Jew Süss"—is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the "court Jew" of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Württemberg. When Carl Alexander died unexpectedly, the Württemberg authorities arrested Oppenheimer, put him on trial, and condemned hi…
The many deaths of Jew Süss: The notorious trial and execution of an eighteenth-century court Jew
Joseph Süss Oppenheimer -"Jew Süss" - is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In 1733, Oppenheimer became the "court Jew" of Carl Alexander, the duke of the small German state of Wurttemberg. When Carl Alexander died unexpectedly, the Wurttemberg authorities arrested Oppenheimer, put him on trial, and condemned him to death for unspecified "misdeeds." On February 4, 1738, Oppenheimer was hanged in front of a large crowd…
Joseph and His Brothers
This chapter examines the life and work of Mordechai Schloss, a Jewish notable who stood behind the publication of the only contemporary Jewish account of Joseph Süss' life and death. Schloss' own life story, and the important text he helped publish about Oppenheimer, together reveal much about the fraught relationships among Jews in 1730s Stuttgart. A careful reconstruction of this relationship will challenge many common assumptions about Oppenh…
Once Within Boundaries: Territories of Power, Wealth, and Belonging
“As we know,” Foucault announced in a famous 1964 lecture, “the great obsession of the nineteenth century was history: themes of development and arrest, themes of crisis and cycle, themes of accumulation of the past, a great overload of dead people, the threat of global cooling.... The present age may be the age of space instead. We are in an era of the simultaneous, of juxtaposition, of the near and the far, of the side-by-side, of the scattered…
Holy Roman Empire: A Short History
The Holy Roman Empire: A Short History
I, Ahasuerus: Monsieur Chouchani in Israel, 1952 56
I, Ahasuerus: Monsieur Chouchani in Israel, 1952-56
In October 1952, a mysterious man boarded a ship sailing from Marseille to Haifa. In the previous several years he had been living in France, where he was known as "Monsieur Chouchani" and taught Talmud to Elie Wiesel and Emmanuel Levinas, among others. Once in Israel, he went by the name "Ben Shoushan." In neither country did anyone know his true identity, but all who met him were astounded: Chouchani/Ben Shoushan appeared practically omniscient…
I, Wandering Jew: A Five-Century History of Our Modern Condition
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