Creator Bio
Lów Wallach
18th Century
Lów Wallach was a Jewish doctor from Frankfurt, who composed a booklet to commemorate the birth of an heir to the Habsburg throne.
Content by Lów Wallach
Primary Source
Apology for His Language (On Yiddish and Hochdeutsch)
Lów Wallach’s 1716 German pamphlet commemorating the birth of an heir to the Habsburg throne, demonstrates Jewish hopes for cultural integration in early modern Frankfurt.
Related Guide
Jewish Printing and Book Culture
1500–1750
Jewish printing unified far-flung communities by standardizing religious texts, created textual uniformity, and enabled vernacular translations, and facilitated the spread of Jewish texts and knowledge.