| Abstrakt: |
Despite the establishment of a ghetto in 1462 and repeated attempts by the city council and the inhabitants to drive the Jews out of Frankfurt, by 1600 the population of the Judengassehad grown from just under 200 to c. 2500, the percentage of the population from nearly 1 per cent in some years to 15 per cent This essay distinguishes different phases of this dramatic population explosion against the background of the changing economic and political conditions for the Frankfurt Jewish community. |
