Schlagwort-Archive: medieval

Disruption and Resilience in Late Medieval Ashkenaz

Dialectics of Continuity and Discontinuity

Historians have long considered the later Middle Ages as a period of cultural decline in European Jewish history. As far as Ashkenaz is concerned, i.e., the area of the medieval German kingdom and its adjacent regions, pogroms and persecutions loom large in the memories of late medieval Jews and of modern historians – and rightfully so. At the same time, the first roots of later »rural Jewry« have been identified in htis very period. If we look closer, it appears that German towns and cities contined to play a role, too, even if Jews were often banned from in the major urban centers permanently and lived in nearby suburban spaces. Not least, the Ashkenazim who emigrated to northen Italy since the late-fourteenth century and to Poland during the fifteenth, laid the foundations for thriving early modern communities in these countries.

In short, Jewish history in this period appears to lend itself to analyses in terms of both »disruption« and »resilience«, of discontinuity and continuity. While it remains necessary to analyse the causes of the recurrent breakdowns of Jewish-Christian relations, it is also important to ask the simple question why not everything broke down in late medieval Jewish history, and to look out for the traces of Jewish agency in adverse circumstances. This is why the Jewish experience has been at the focus of a project in the Trier »Resilience« research group.

The present online collection of essays is a result of the resarch group’s workshops and a session at the 18th World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem in 2022.

Contents

Christoph Cluse, »Disruption and Resilience in Late Medieval Ashkenaz: Dialectics of Continuity and Discontinuity«

Jörg R. Müller, »Jews facing the ›Armleder‹ Pogroms in Franconia, 1336–1337: A New Look at Regional Court Records«

Kajetán Holeček, »When Did the Jews Leave the Town? Credit Trade and the Expulsion of Jews from Eger (Cheb) in 1430/31«

Ruth Bruchertseifer, »Die Antwort von Stadtrat und Judengemeinde zu Frankfurt an Markgraf Albrecht Achilles 1462: Strategien zur Bewältigung einer Steuerforderung zu ungelegener Zeit«

Ivo Köth, »Der Kampf um die jüdischen Bücher: Jonathan Kostheim und der jüdische Widerstand gegen den Konvertiten Johannes Pfefferkorn«

Avi Siluk, »Josel von Rosheims Schrift gegen die Blutbeschuldigung«

Annika Funke, »How to Lobby the Lords: Jewish Agency in the Condominal Power Struggles of the Early-Sixteenth Century Wetterau«

Lucia Raspe, »Jewish ›Lands‹ in Post-Expulsion Ashkenaz: The Evidence of Liturgy«

The open access collection can be downloaded here.

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Abseits großer Gemeinden

Kleine jüdische Siedlungen im Mittelalter

Vom 4. bis zum 6. April 2024 findet in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee (A) die von Birgit Wiedl, Eveline Brugger und Christian Domenig organisierte internationale Tagung “Abseits großer Gemeinden” statt. Das vollständige Programm und Informationen zur Teilnahme finden sich untenstehend zum Download.

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Eine unbekannte Märtyrerliste zu den Judenverfolgungen des “Schwarzen Todes” (1348–51)

In der Zeitschrift ZION hat Abraham David gerade den Text einer bislang unbeachteten Liste von Orten veröffentlicht, an denen zur Zeit des “Schwarzen Todes” Juden verfolgt wurden. Er fand sie in der Handschrift Giessen, UB, 892, einem Gebetbuch aus dem späten 14./frühen 15. Jahrhundert. Die Handschrift entstammt den Sammlungen des Zacharias Konrad von Uffenbach (1683-1734). Eine unbekannte Märtyrerliste zu den Judenverfolgungen des “Schwarzen Todes” (1348–51) weiterlesen

W1-Juniorprofessur in Trier

Im Fachbereich III – Altertumswissenschaften, Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft, Kunstgeschichte – der Universität Trier ist im Fach Mittelalterliche Geschichte zum 1. April 2022 eine W1-Juniorprofessur für Mittelalterliche Geschichte mit Schwerpunkten in der jüdischen Geschichte und Geschichte der interreligiösen Beziehungen mit Tenure-Track nach W2 (LBesG) (m/w/d) im Beamtenverhältnis auf Zeit zu besetzen. – Zum Ausschreibungstext.

The Faculty of Antiquity Studies, History, Politics, and Art History (FB III) of Trier University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the level of Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessorin/Juniorprofessor) of Jewish History and the History of Interreligious Encounter in the Middle Ages (W1 with tenure-track to a W2 position, LBesG) (m/f/d) starting April 1st 2022. – See further details here.

Jewish Craftspeople in the Middle Ages

Call for Papers: Research Workshop, Tel Aviv University, 3–4 May 2020

Jewish Craftspeople in the Middle Ages: Objects, Sources and Materials

The significant participation of Jews in medieval European daily life culture is common knowledge in modern Jewish Studies. We know that Jews used the same objects as Christians did – they wore the same clothes and the same jewelry, used the same dishes and lived in the same houses with the same furnishings and equipment. Scholars therefore are speaking of the shared culture of both groups. But in general it is assumed that most of these objects were made by Christian craftspeople, organized in guilds. However, the existence of Jewish craftspeople should be taken into consideration too. Yet, this field has not yet been adequately studied. Sources providing evidence of medieval Jewish craftspeople are rather scarce at first glance, especially in Northern Europe. In the Mediterranean, most regions with Jewish populations have a much broader base of sources.

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