The document presented here is a broadsheet from 1642 that describes the execution of Frantz Ferdinand Engelberger, a Jew killed after an illustrious history of crime and religious polemic. Engelberger converted to Christianity after he was caught stealing from a synagogue around 1636. He subsequently published two anti-Jewish texts (1640), became known to the emperor Ferdinand III and two years later was caught stealing an expensive vessel from the court’s treasury along with two Jews. All three thieves were sentenced to death. The text reports the events that followed their sentence starting with the original day of execution when Engelsberger denounced Christianity, and focusing on what happened to him four days later after he was convicted as a blasphemer, and sentenced to torture and a very cruel death.
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