The Many Deaths of Jew Süss

A “shrewd, elegant and illuminating” analysis of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer’s trial and execution—one of history’s most infamous episodes of antisemitism ( Times Literary Supplement ). 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 Alexander died, Oppenheimer was arrested, put on trial, and condemned to death for unspecified “