ABSTRACT
The question of tolerance towards Jews was much discussed between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the various states of the Holy Roman Empire. During the same period, the subject was treated at Lutheran universities in short treatises, the dissertationes, i.e. the theses, which students discussed at the end of their studies. They represent a new source for the study of this phenomenon: they allow us to analyse the discussion in the academic milieu of the individual university (e.g. Halle) during a specific period (the early eighteenth century). Mistrust of the Jews was at the heart of these works, a prejudice that had its roots in the origins of Christianity and which, despite new approaches, led to solutions that provided for a clear separation between the two groups.
