Volume 5: Law: Continuity and Change in the Early Modern Period, 2008, Yeshiva University, New York, NY

Participants

Anne Oravetz Albert, University of Pennsylvania, USA

· The Herem as the Source of Authority of the Lay Governing Council


Yaron Ben-Naeh, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

· Jews at the Court of the Kadi


Miriam Bodian, University of Texas at Austin, USA

· Evasion as a Legal Tactic: The 1616 Amsterdam Regulations Concerning the Jews


Edward Fram, Ben-Gurion University, Israel

· Expanding Legal Horizons?


David Horowitz, Columbia University, USA

· Challenging Herem in Hamburg, 1732


Stefan Litt, Bar Ilan University, Israel / Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria ,

· Takkanot Kahal and the origin of communal structures in a Franconian village community in the 17th century


Benjamin Ravid, Brandeis University, USA

· When the Indelible Sacrament of Baptism Met Mercantile Raison d'Etat


Barbara Staudinger, Institute for Jewish History in Austria, Austria

· Under imperial Protection? Jewish Presence on the Imperial Aulic Court in the 16th and 17th Centuries


Kenneth Stow, Haifa University, Israel

· The Jews and Ius Commune


Adam Teller, University of Haifa, Israel

· Trying Issues: Polish-Lithuanian Jews under Multiple Jurisdictions


Elimelech (Melech) Westreich, Tel Aviv University Law School, Israel

· The Legal Status of the Wife in Ashkenazi Jewish Legal Tradition: Continuity and Change in the Sixteenth Century


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