Download or read book The Preservation of Jewish Religious Books in Sixteenth-Century Germany: Johannes Reuchlin's Augenspiegel written by Daniel O'Callaghan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannes Reuchlin’s Augenspiegel (1511) was a radical political publication aimed to preserve Jewish books from destruction and the consequent loss of irreplaceable knowledge. This first complete and extensively annotated translation provides an insight into the authorities’ attitude to Judaism in Early Modern Germany.