Imperial Entanglements of Jewish History: Jewish Cases from Fulda, Fürth, Schwabach, Hildesheim and Halberstadt before the Imperial Aulic Council

5 & 7 May 2017, Jerusalem

Friday, 5 May 2017

Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Jerusalem

8.15 - 8.30 a.m.
Introduction
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

8.30 – 9.00 a.m.
Historical Moot Courts I: An Introduction to the Ius Commune Moot Court – The Imperial Aulic Council &  the Historical Jewish Law Moot Court – The Rabbinic Tribunal of Prague
Edward Fram, Beer Sheva, Ulrich Hausmann, Erlangen/Vienna, Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

9.00 a.m. – 11.00
Historical Moot Courts II: Historical Jewish Law Moot Court – The Rabbinic Tribunal of Prague
Edward Fram, Beer Sheva

11.30 a.m. – 1.00 p.m.
Presentation of Examples from Fürth and Schwabach from the Research Project „The Jewish Cases of the Imperial Aulic Council“
Ulrich Hausmann, Erlangen/Vienna

Comments
Edward Fram, Beer Sheva and Georg Seiderer, Erlangen  



Austrian Hospice, Jerusalem

2.15 - 3.00 p.m.
Imperial Entanglements of Jewish History: The Jewish Homages to the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and Beyond
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna



3.00 – 3.45 p.m.
Historical Moot Courts III: Ius Commune Moot Court – The Imperial Aulic Council
Ulrich Hausmann, Erlangen/Vienna and Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

3.45 – 4.30 p.m.
Presentation of Examples from Halberstadt and Hildesheim from the Research Project „The Jewish Cases of the Imperial Aulic Council“
Berndt Strobach, Wolfenbüttel  

5.00 – 6.30 p.m.
Historical Moot Courts IV: Jewish Law as a Particular Law in the Ius Commune
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

 
Sunday, 7 May 2017

Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People

1.00 – 2.30 p.m.
Archival Sources Concerning the Jewish community of Fulda and Berend Lehmann in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
Inka Arroyo Antezana, Jerusalem, Yochai Ben Ghedalia, Jerusalem


National Library of Israel, Jerusalem

3.00 - 4.00 p.m.
Jewish Law as a Source of Law in the Jurisdiction of the Imperial Aulic Council
Ulrich Hausmann, Erlangen/Vienna and Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Comment
Edward Fram, Beer Sheva

4.00 - 5.30 p.m.
Berend Lehmann: A Biography
Berndt Strobach, Wolfenbüttel  

Comments
Edward Fram, Beer Sheva and Michael Silber, Jerusalem

5.30 – 7.00 p.m.
Presentation of Examples from Fulda from the Research Project „The Jewish Cases of the Imperial Aulic Council“
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Comment
Thomas Heiler, Fulda

The Fulda Turmoil, the Expulsion and Return of the Jewish Community and the Imperial Aulic Council  
André Griemert, Hanau

Book Presentation: André Griemert, Jüdische Klagen gegen Reichsadelige. Prozesse am Reichshofrat in den Herrschaftsjahren Rudolfs II. und Franz I. Stephans (bibliothek altes Reich, 16), Munich: de Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2015.

Bread & Wine


Venues:

Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, Reading Room, The Hebrew  University of Jerusalem, The Edmond J. Safra Campus, High-Tech Village, Givat Ram, Jerusalem
Austrian Hospice of the Holy Family, Salon, Via Dolorosa 37, Jerusalem
The National Library of Israel, Reference Room, Entrance Level, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem

Concept & Organisation:

Dr. Stephan Wendehorst
Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Historical Institute &
University of Vienna, Institute for Legal and Constitutional History
stephan.wendehorst@univie.ac.at