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The City As A Place Of Regulation, Border And Exclusion, Bernard D. Cooperman
The City As A Place Of Regulation, Border And Exclusion, Bernard D. Cooperman
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
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- Supplications to the Government, Jewish Settlement in Livorno Atti Civili del Ufficio di governatore di Livorno (1605, 1610)
Law, Boundaries, And City Life In Early Modern Poland-Lithuania, Magda Teter
Law, Boundaries, And City Life In Early Modern Poland-Lithuania, Magda Teter
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
The dynamics of relations within cities thus are shaped not only by class or religious or ethnic membership but also by the legal framework. In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, divisions between the private and royal domains within cities disrupted not only their legal coherence but also that of Jewish communities themselves, sharpening economic competition and often also conflict. This is what the 1711 decree of the Lithuanian Tribunal against the kahal of Minsk highlights--legal distinctions sometimes exacerbated urban tensions.
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- Decree of the Lithuanian Tribunal against the Kahal of Minsk (1711)
Close Quarters Privacy And Jewish House Space In Early Modern Polish Cities, Adam Teller
Close Quarters Privacy And Jewish House Space In Early Modern Polish Cities, Adam Teller
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
The following texts were chosen in order to illustrate the implications of the growth in Jewish population in Poland's larger towns during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when the number of Jews grew faster than the non-Jewish authorities would allow the Jewish quarters to expand. This led to an increasing degree of crowding in the Jewish quarter as a whole as well as in individual houses. To illustrate this, some demographic data on the situation in the Jewish quarter of Poznan may be seen in the presentation.
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- Cracow Community Ordinance of 5355 (1595) …
Rural Jews Of Alsace, Debra Kaplan
Rural Jews Of Alsace, Debra Kaplan
Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History
From 1348/9-1477, the Jews of Alsace were expelled from the cities in which they had lived throughout the Middle Ages. While many opted to leave the Empire for centers in Eastern Europe and Italy, some Jews remained, moving to the towns and villages in the countryside. By the 1470's, the majority of Alsatian Jews lived in rural areas. Quotas often dictated residential policies in towns and villages, so it was not uncommon to find one or two Jewish families per village/town. The following documents detail the relationship of rural Alsatian Jews, as represented by their communal leaders, with two Alsatian …