I know Luther tried to address some Jewish communities around the time the reformation took off, but I was wandering if there was more than that. Do we have any writings or something about how the Jews viewed the turmoils of the reformation, the counter-reformation, the wars of religion, etc?
I think 'address' is a very interesting choice of words here. Martin Luther in "On the jews and their lies" advocated that jews should be murdered and their communities and institutions burnt to the ground. That's like saying that The Turner Diaries 'addresses' non-white people, when in fact it is a book advocating a violent racial war. I have no information about the Jewish reaction to these events, but given the fact that past bouts of Christian zeal in the recent past (e.g. the inquisition, the crusades) led to massive, organized campaigns of murder against European Jews they probably were terrified of these events....
Related question: I've heard that a lot of Jews who were forced to convert to Catholicism during the Inquisitions then converted (or their descendents did) to Reformation or Protestant sects, due to an understandable inherited disgruntlement with the Catholic Church. Is there any truth to this?