Resources for 2010
Communication and Community: Multiplex Networks in the 18th Century Sephardi Diaspora
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Communities Developing in Association with Place: Testament of Ginebra Blanis, 1574
**ABSTRACT:** Recent attention to Jewish demography and to the spatial characteristics of Jewish residential patterns has demonstrated that in more than one region, Early Modern Jews were associated with each other more loosely, and less locally, than has previously been imagined. The "communities" to which Jews may have felt they belonged are difficult to know as they are likely to have varied with economic or social status, gender, age, and ethnic origin. The testament translated below is that of a merchant woman in the first years of the existence of the Florentine ghetto (founded 1571). The study of early modern bequests has proven an important resource for the study of early modern female piety in Catholic contexts; here, in addition to what we learn about the spiritual goals of the testator, we may study this testament as documenting one of the earlier articulations of her social commitments that express a sense of Jewish communal belonging and becoming. **This presentation is for the following text(s):** * Testament 128
Conjugal Disputes at the Jewish Court of 18th Century Altona
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Entangled Communities: Religion and Identity in Early Modern Europe
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The Early Modern Jewish Parliament: The Council of Four Lands in Poland
This presentation will examine the structure, functions, and internal tensions of the Council of Four Lands, based on a set of regulations drawn up in Polish by the Council at the request of the Treasury Commissioner, Dzialynski, in 1739. It will also attempt to examine the Council in its Polish and European contexts. **This presentation is for the following text(s):** * Regulations of the Jewish Council in Jaroslaw
Layered Networks: Functioning Across Communities
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Merchants and Rabbis - The Family of Josko of Lviv
Josko of Lviv was one of the most important Jewish entrepreneurs in the late medieval Poland, specifically in the eastern provinces of Polish Kingdom, namely the voievodships of Russia and Lublin. Jossko engaged in the number of profitable commercial activities, but achieved real prominence as the leaseholder of royal customs in such important urban centers as Lviv, Lublin, Chelm and Belz. His successful service to Kazimierz Jagiellon, John Olbracht and Alexander Jagiellon became the point of contention during the session of Polish Diet in Lublin in 1505. In this year Polish parliament demanded that Josko would be removed from his official position in the royal service. Shortly after this dramatic intervention of the Polish noblemen Josko died in Lublin, and left behind his wife Golda and children. One of his sons, Shachna, a pupil of Jacob Pollack, became the foremost rabbinical authority in Poland, and his yeshiva graduated such influential scholars as Solomon Luria and moses Isserles. This presentation will examine the history of Josko and his family in the first three decades of 16th century. It will analyze the importance of Josko as the royal servant and how the fortune he left help his sons, especially Pyessak and Shachno to establish themselves as an important leader of the community in Lublin, and more broadly in eastern Poland. Number of important primary texts, issued mostly by the royal chancellery, will be utilized here, all pertaining to Josko and Shachno. **This presentation is for the following text(s):** * Court record from Lublin Castle (1533) * The Letter (Privilege) with the Royal Seal Presented by Rabbi Schachno from the Lublin's Suburb
Minhag and Migration: A Yiddish Custom Book from Venice, 1553
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The Price of Power: Financing a Jewish Community
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Rabbinic Authority and Community in 18th Century Germany: Moses Brandeis Levi and the Jewish Community of Mainz
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A Spiritual Community in the Social World: Lurianic Notions of Identity and Inter-Subjectivity Within the Community
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Regulating Communal Space: Mikvaot in Seventeenth-Century Altona
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The Struggle to Transcend Differences and Conflicts Among Early American Jewry
**ABSTRACT:** Exploration of two contrary tendencies among colonial American Jews to achieve consensus within their religious fellowship. In one case, they relied upon European precedent by attempting to recreate the kehilla in America, while in the other they rejected European precedents that forbade commonality among Ashkenazim and Sepharadim. The outcome was a new kind of community: the voluntary one. **This presentation is for the following text(s):** * Minute Book of the Congregation Shearith Israel in New York (1730-1760)