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‘The Many Deaths of Jew Süss’: Mintzker grapples with truth in history

Yair Mintzker, an associate professor of history, joined the Princeton faculty in 2009 after earning his Ph.D. at Stanford University. He studies early modern and modern Germany, with a particular focus on the “Sattelzeit,” or the transitional period between the early modern age and the late modern age (1750-1850). This spring, Mintzker’s latest book, “The Many Deaths of Jew Süss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew,” was published by Princeton University Press. (more…)

The Death of the Death Penalty?

By Guest PostJanuary 31, 2014General, Mediaamericans, austin, capital punishment, death, death penalty, execution, families, homicide survivor, lwop, marilyn peterson armour, mark umbreit, minnesota, murder victims, parole, social work, texas, traumatic act, trial strategy, ultimate penal sanction, university of minnesota, university of texas, ut austin

Texas leads the nation in executions. Minnesota has no death penalty. So two researchers—one from the University of Minnesota and one from the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin)—teamed up to find out something no one had ever looked at before: what the death penalty does for the murder victims’ families. They compared family survivors’ experiences in Texas with Minnesota, the latter one of 18 states with life without the possibility of parole (LWOP) as its “Ultimate Penal Sanction.”

The study used in-person interviews with victims’ families to examine the death penalty process and its long-term impact on the families. (more…)

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‘The Many Deaths of Jew Süss’: Mintzker grapples with truth in history

The Death of the Death Penalty?