Yudisher Theriak: An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism by Morris M. Faierstein Yiddish Learning many Jews came to reject

many Jews came to reject what they regarded as the apocalyptic and utopian prophecies of political dreamers and religious fanatics

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Yudisher Theriak: An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism by Morris M. Faierstein Yiddish Learning many Jews came to rejectTranslated by Morris M. Faierstein The Yudisher Theriak [Jewish Theriac] by Zalman Zvi of Aufhausen, first published in Hanau, in 1615, was a response to an anti Jewish work titled Jdischer abgestreiffter Schlangenbalg [Jewish Shed Snakeskin], written by a Jewish convert to Christianity, Samuel Friedrich Brenz, and published in Nrnberg and Augsburg in 1614. Brenz's work was part of a genre of anti Jewish books and pamphlets written in German and