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The Case against Johann Reuchlin: Religious and Social Controversy in Sixteenth-Century Germany. By Erika Rummel. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xvi + 174 pp. $50.00 cloth; $22.95 paper.
In 1509 Johann Pfefferkorn, a Jewish convert to Christianity, sought permission to confiscate and destroy Jewish books. Esteemed German Hebraist, Johann Reuchlin, a Christian, vigorously opposed Pfefferkorn's campaign. Reuchlin not only defended the...