University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Faculty Publications, Classics and Religious Studies Department Classics and Religious Studies June 1998 The Regulation of Hebrew Printing in Germany, 1555-1630: Confessional Politics and the Limits of Jewish Toleration Stephen G. Burnett University of Nebraska - Lincoln,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/classicsfacpub Part of the Classics Commons Burnett, Stephen G., "The Regulation of Hebrew Printing in Germany, 1555-1630: Confessional Politics and the Limits of Jewish Toleration" (1998). Faculty Publications, Classics and Religious Studies Department. 49. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/classicsfacpub/49 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Classics and Religious Studies at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications, Classics and Religious Studies Department by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Stephen G. Burnett, “The Regulation of Hebrew Printing in Germany, 1555-1630: Confessional Politics and the Limits of Jewish Toleration.” Published in Infinite Boundaries: Order, Disorder, and Reorder in Early Modern German Culture. Ed. Max Reinhart and Thomas Robisheaux. Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, no. 40. Kirksville, MO: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1998. Pages 329-348. Copyright © 1998 Truman State University Press. Used by permission. Truman State University Press is online at: https://tsup.truman.edu/ ^fje ^c^ufatton of^c6rew ^printin^ in Oerman^ 1555- 1630 Confessional Politics and the Limits of Jewish Toleration Stephen G. Burnett In the contentious religious and political climate of the German empire between 1555 and 1630, rulers of Lutheran, Reformed, and Catholic cities and territories all agreed that "Jewish blasphemies" were intolerable in a Christian state, yet Jewish printing came to be both legally and politically feasible during these years.