Frankfurt's Judengasse: The Street and Family that Shaped the Modern World
Wed 2 Dec · Venue to be confirmed
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Lecture by Jonathan Wolff, FBA, Emeritus Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford. Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College Oxford. President: The Royal Institute of Philosophy From 1462 to 1811 the Jews of Frankfurt am Main were required to live in a single street - the Judengasse - a walled, gated, often locked, ghetto said at one time to be the most densely populated place on earth. For much of its existence, the number of legal marriages was also restricted.