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On November 2, 1712, a large crowd trembling with excitement assembled on the market place of the residential city of Ansbach, in order to take part in the public punishment of an old Jew. The executioner tied the stripped man to a stake, which had been erected for this purpose, gave him nine lashes with a cane, and tore a volume of magic which had been found on his person. Afterwards, the delinquent was put on the knacker’s cart and brought to the fortress of Wuelzburg (near Weissenburg), in order to serve his life sentence in prison, chained and only provided with bread and water. Eight years later, he died there at the age of 67.1
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Ries, R. (2002). Bridging the Gaps — Reflections on the Trial of a Court Jew and a Modern Concept of Jewish History in Germany. In: Berger, S., Brocke, M., Zwiep, I. (eds) Zutot 2001. Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3730-2_19
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