Yair Mintzker

Publications

I am the author of three books: The Defortification of the German City, 1689-1866 (Cambridge University Press, 2012; paperback 2014), which tells the story of the metamorphosis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German cities from walled to defortified (open) places; The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew (Princeton UP, 2017), which is a retelling of the trial and execution of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer, the notorious “Jew Süss,” and I, Wandering Jew: A Five Century History of Our Modern Condition (Princeton UP 2026). I also translated from the German and wrote the preface to Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger's The Holy Roman Empire: A Short History (Princeton UP, 2018), and co-edited, together with David A. Bell, the essay collection Rethinking the Age of Revolutions: France and the Birth of the Modern World (Oxford UP, 2018). Please click on the individual books for more information. A comprehensive list of my publications can be found on my curriculum vitae.