Martin Luther:

Their houses also should be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the Gypsies.

— Martin Luther Early Modern

Leader of the Protestant Reformation

Context

On the Jews and Their Lies

Date / Period

1543

Source

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/luther-jews.asp

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Method

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