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Pfefferkorn was a great aid to the growth of anti-Semitism in late Medieval Europe.
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Pfefferkorn was a German Jew who, in the early 16th Century, converted to Christianity and became one of the leading anti-Semites of his time.
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Ignaz Pfefferkorn, an eighteenth-century German traveler who published a book about Sonora, described Apache life with an accuracy it would take twentieth-century anthropology to confirm.
Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994
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Ignaz Pfefferkorn, an eighteenth-century German traveler who published a book about Sonora, described Apache life with an accuracy it would take twentieth-century anthropology to confirm.
Once They Moved Like the Wind David Roberts 1994
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The denunciation of the Talmud by the Jew Pfefferkorn in 1509 and the ex-Rabbi Drach in 1844 have been quoted in the course of this book.
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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Considerable alarm appears, however, to have been created by the spread of Rabbinical literature, and in 1509 a Jew converted to Christianity, named Pfefferkorn, persuaded the Emperor Maximilian I to burn all Jewish books except the
Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918
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Pfefferkorn was assailed in the "Epistolæ obscurorum virorum" by the young Humanists who espoused Reuchlin's cause.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Pfefferkorn was a fanatic and his public and literary life had little of sympathy or grace, but he was certainly an honourable character and the caricature which his opponents have drawn of him is far from true.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Reuchlin's vote Pfefferkorn was greatly excited, and answered with
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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; Baegert, Nachrichten aus Californien (Mannheim, 1771), 198 and passim; Pfefferkorn, Sonora
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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