ABSTRACT
Historians to date have concentrated primarily on large-scale attacks on Jewish people during the early modern German period, such as the sack of the Judengasse, the Jewish street, in Frankfurt am Main during the Fettmilch Uprising in 1614. While such studies are important, assessments of individual attacks and/or crimes against Jewish people serve an equally and arguably even more important function, especially if the culprits were caught and brought to justice. Assessments of individual criminal case descriptions reveal with greater accuracy personal motivations for the crime as well as the criminal circumstances. Most importantly, they also disclose in greater detail how the judiciary dealt with both the perpetrators and the victims.
