In and out of the ghetto : Jewish-gentile relations in late medieval and early modern Germany / edited by R. Po-chia Hsia and Hartmut Lehmann.

Papers presented at a conference held in Los Angeles on May 9-11, 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reflecting on German-Jewish history / Jacob Katz -- The Jewish quarters in German towns during the late middle ages / Alfred Haverkamp -- Organizational forms of Jewish popular culture since the middle ages / Christoph Daxelmüller -- Criminality and punishment of the Jews in the early modern period / Otto Ulbricht -- Jews and Gentiles in the Holy Roman Empire : a comment / Theodore K. Rabb -- Aspects of stratification of early modern German Jewry : population history and village Jews / Michael Toch -- Jewish economic activity in early modern times / Stefi Jersch-Wenzel -- Comparative perspectives on economy and society : the Jews of the Polish commonwealth : a comment / Gershon David Hundert -- Languages in contact : the case of Rotwelsch and the two "Yiddishes" / Paul Wexler -- Meeting on the road : encounters between German Jews and Christians on the margins of society / Yacov Guggenheim -- Contacts at the bedside : Jewish physicians and their Christian patients / Robert Jütte -- Contacts and relations in the pre-emancipation period : a comment / Deborah Hertz -- The usurious Jew : economic structure and religious representations in an anti-Semitic discourse / R. Po-chia Hsia -- Imagining the Jew : the late medieval eucharistic discourse / Miri Rubin -- Representations of German Jewry : images, prejudices, ideas : a comment / Carlo Ginzburg -- German territorial princes and the Jews / Rotraud Ries -- Jews in eccleciastical territories of the Holy Roman Empire / J. Friedrich Battenberg -- Jews in the imperial cities : a political perspective / Christopher R. Friedrichs -- Germans with a difference? : the Jews of the Holy Roman Empire during the early modern era : a comment / Thomas A. Brady, Jr. -- Germany and its Jews : a changing relationship (1300-1800) / Jonathan I. Israel -- The Jewish minority and the Christian majority in early modern Central Europe / Hartmut Lehmann -- The Jews of the Netherlands in the early modern period / Richard H. Popkin -- Jewish identity in a world of corporations and estates / Mack Walker.