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Würfel's frontispiece attempts to depict the costume
of the Jews of medieval Nuremberg
(“A Jewish burgher of Nuremberg in outdoor weekday attire; male and female
Jews in
outdoor Sabbath attire; a male in non-synagogal attire; a female wearing indoor
clothes; and a Jew carrying wine for the Sabbath”). He suceeds in conveying
an antique
feel but it is less suggestive of the fifteenth century than of the seventeenth.
Although they
had been banished from the city for close to three hundred years by the time
Würfel
wrote his history of the community, Jews were readily to be seen throughout
the early
modern period as close to Nuremberg as the adjoining municipality of Fürth.
Andreas Würfel, Historische Nachrichten von der
Juden-Gemeinde welche ehehin in
der Reichstadt Nürnberg angericht gewesen aber Ao. 1499 ausgeschaffen
worden.
Nuremberg : Georg Peter Monath, 1755.
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