Imperial Entanglements of Jewish History: Jewish Cases from Fürth before the Imperial Aulic Council

5 & 6 February 2018, Jerusalem

Monday, 5 February 2018

Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People

3.15 – 4.30 p.m.
Welcome Address
Inka Arroyo Antezana, Yochai Ben Ghedalia, Sharon Kangisser, Jerusalem, Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Introduction to the History and the Holdings of the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
Inka Arroyo Antezana, Yochai Ben Ghedalia, Sharon Kangisser, Jerusalem

Coffee

4.45 - 6.00 p.m.
Archival Sources Concerning the Jewish Community of Fürth
Inka Arroyo Antezana, Yochai Ben Ghedalia, JSharon Kangisser Jerusalem


Tuesday, 6 February 2018

Austrian Hospice

9.00 – 10.30 a.m.
The Holy Roman Empire & Legal Pluralism
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Jewish Law as a Particular Law in the Ius Commune as an Object of Jurisprudence
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Coffee

11.00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Jewish Law as a Particular Law in the Ius Commune: Jurisdiction
Ulrich Hausmann, Erlangen/Vienna, Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Jewish Cases from Fürth before the Imperial Aulic Council
Ulrich Hausmann, Erlangen/Vienna

Lunch
National Library of Israel

2.00 - 3.30 p.m.
Historical Moot Courts: 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

Preview: 10th Summer Academy on the History oft he Jews in the Holy Roman Empire and ist Successor States (Vienna, Eisenstadt, Fürth, Fulda, Hamburg, East-Frisia) 25 July-10 August 2018: Special Topic: Transport and Communication
Ulrich Hausmann, Erlangen/Vienna, Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Preview: Multi-Level Palaeography Courses in Early Modern Hebrew, Yiddish, German-Jewish and German as Part of the 10th Summer Academy on the History of the Jews in the Holy Roman Empire and its Successor States (Vienna, Eisenstadt, Fürth, Fulda, Hamburg, East-Frisia), 25 July -10 August 2018:
Ulrich Hausmann, Erlangen/Vienna, Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna , Mordechai Zucker, Jerusalem


6.00 – 8.00 p.m.
From the Frontiers of Research and Teaching

Juden und kommunale Öffentlichkeit. Der Fürther "Nachtwächterstreit" im 17. Jahrhundert (Jews and the Communal Public. The Fürth „Night Watchman Controversy“ in the 17th Century)
Stefan Ehrenpreis, Innsbruck

Josel of Rosheim, Papal-Jewish Encounters, the Expulsion of the Jewish Community of Prague and the Frankfurt Jewish Deputation at the Congress of Vienna Revisited: Reflections on the Jewish Position in the Early Modern Law of Nations

The History of the Jewish Community in Inter-War Burgenland between International Law, Public Ecclesiastical Law and Domestic Law

A Critical Edition and Translation of Dohm’s Treatise „Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Juden, 1781
Stephan Wendehorst, Gießen/Vienna

Follow-Up


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, Seminar Room Berman 1, 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