TABLE OF CONTENTS

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I. Earliest Times to the Second Massacre......... 1

II. To King Wenzels Remission of Debt. 15

III. Wenzels Deposition to the Establishment of the

Ghetto. 32

IV. Pfefferkorn and? the Dispute Concerning Jewish

Books (15091511). 46

V. Period of the Reformation (Sixteenth Century).. 60

VI. The Fettmilch Insurrection (16121616). 73

VII. The Thirty Years War and the Second Half of the

Seventeenth Century. 108

VIII. Early Eighteenth Century; the Great Conflagrations 129

IX. Ascension of Joseph II. 147

X. Inner Life of the Ghetto. 172

XI. Struggle for Emancipation under Dalberg . 194

XII. Complete Emancipation. 216

XIII. The Old Cemetery. 223

XIV. The Rothschild House. 237

XV. Judaica in the Library of the City of Frankfort. 245

XVI. Jewish Antiquities in the Frankfort Historical

Museum. 253

XVII. The Synagogues. 262

Bibliography.275

Iudex . 277