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The Sandomierz Paintings of Ritual Murder as Lieux De Mémoire

Ritual Murder in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Beyond

Matai nosad ha-defus ha-ivri be-Qraqov?[Hebrew: When Did Hebrew Printing Begin in Cracow?]

Gal-Ed, 2005

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WesScholar Sinners on Trial: Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation

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WesScholar Matai nosad ha-defus ha-`ivri be-Qraqov? [Hebrew: When Did Hebrew Printing Begin in Cracow?]

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WesScholar Stosunki chrześcijańsko-żydowskie w history, pamięci i sztuce: Europejski kontekst dzieł w katedrze sandomierskiej [Jewish-Christian Relations in History, Memory, and Art: European context for the paintings in the Sandomierz Cathedral] Urszula Stępień

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The Cambridge History of Judaism, Volume 7: The Early Modern World, 1500–1815. Jonathan Karp and Adam Sutcliffe, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi + 1,136 pp. $215

Renaissance Quarterly, 2021

Chapter 4 explores how thirteenth-century German law was both protective and controlling of Saxon... more Chapter 4 explores how thirteenth-century German law was both protective and controlling of Saxon women. It demonstrates that Saxon women's rights were fluid and how that fluidity was captured in the images of the picture-books. Caviness here acknowledges that women and Jews are not represented in any given section of the Sachsenspiegel but, rather, are referred to in clauses peppered throughout Eike's text. The picture-books, notes Caviness, therefore add extra-textual pictorial representations of both women and Jews in places where they are not seen in the legal text. This theme is continued in chapter 5 and its closer examination of Jews. Caviness parallels the fluctuating nature of settlement in German lands with the picture-books' depiction of the Jewish male. Although stereotypical images of Jews do appear in the fourteenth-century picture-books, predominantly through clothing, Jews are also depicted as an object of compensatory projection. Caviness thus concludes that there is no fixed societal position of Jews in the picture-books between 1300 and 1600 and they are, instead, a reflection of the contradictory experiences of fourteenth-century Jewish communities in German lands. The final chapter returns to the question of reception, picking up where chapter 2 left off, and continues the story from the eighteenth century to the present. Here the discussion mostly centers on adopting the Sachsenspiegel as a cultural artifact, but one that, since the 1930s, became weighed down by nationalism and racism. Caviness has certainly contributed to the Sachsenspiegel 's rehabilitation. This is a beautiful homage to Caviness's long-term research partner Charles Nelson, and a well-presented examination of the legal standing of marginal groups in a society dominated by male Christians. It does well to draw on comparable examples to place the picture-books in a wider European context, and readers will be drawn in by the beautifully reproduced images. Some readers may feel misled by the title in that women and Jews are only fully treated in chapters four and five. The size and weight of the tome is also somewhat prohibitive in what might otherwise be a good introductory text for students. These critiques aside, this is an absorbing exploration of the Sachsenspiegel picture-books that will certainly be an asset to the bookshelves of scholars in diverse fields of study.

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History Explains How Tension in Ukraine Goes Back Centuries

1. From Medieval Tales to the Challenge in Trent

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Paola Tartakoff. Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 304 pp

AJS Review, 2021

Money, Power, and Influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania

Stanford University Press, 2017

This study demonstrates how Jewish economic activity on the magnate estates in the eighteenth-cen... more This study demonstrates how Jewish economic activity on the magnate estates in the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth enriched, empowered, and reshaped Jewish—and Polish-Lithuanian—society. The analysis follows the New institutional economics (NIE) approach to detail Jews’ roles in the estates’ economic institutions—especially the markets, often overlooked in studying the feudal economy. It examines the economic roles played by Jews on the estates of the Radziwiłł magnate dynasty. This was a late feudal economy, so its study demonstrates how Jews formed part of a pre-capitalist system—a highly beneficial setting for them. Jewish businessmen formed the majority of merchants on the estates and also dominated the leasing of the monopoly on alcohol sales—a crucial way of marketing surplus grain. This economic niche became an ethnic economy, giving Jews market superiority. Their social status improved dramatically since they enjoyed Radziwiłł support and acted as their uno...

Putting "Blood Libel" in Historical Context

Stosunki chrześcijańsko-żydowskie w history, pamięci i sztuce: Europejski kontekst dzieł w katedrze sandomierskiej [Jewish-Christian Relations in History, Memory, and Art: European context for the paintings in the Sandomierz Cathedral]

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Two Cases of Apostasy in Dubno in 1716 Jews, Christians, and Family Life

This text relates a trial of two Christian women who accepted to Judaism that took place in the c... more This text relates a trial of two Christian women who accepted to Judaism that took place in the city of Dubno in eastern Poland in 1716. The text presented here comes from a collection of primary sources published in Kiev [now Kyiv] in 1869, as part of effort by scholars at the time to collect and publish primary source materials about Ukraine. The collection is called Arkhiv Iugo-zapadnoi Rossii, or The Archive of SouthWestern Russia, and contains documents from the SouthWestern part of Ukraine.

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Sacrilegi e spazi sacri e profane: Ebrei e cristiani in Polonia d’età moderna

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The Early Modern Inn as a Space for Religious and Cultural Exchange

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Anti-Jewish Accusations in Poland: A Medieval or Early Modern Phenomenon?

Anti-Jewish accusations of host desecration and ritual murder, both of medieval origin and nature... more Anti-Jewish accusations of host desecration and ritual murder, both of medieval origin and nature, became characteristic of the early modern period in Poland. Despite their medieval roots, some of the medieval characteristics of the accusations were gradually lost in the early modern period, even though their traces continue to appear in the sources. The presentation discusses the loss of theological significance of the accusations. The host desecration accusations gradually become church robbery cases, even if some theological rhetoric is retained, and the blood libels become cases of Jewish hostility and not of reenacting of the Crucifixion.

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Material Possessions and Religious Boundaries in Early Modern Poland

The 1719 trial of two Jews from Brest (Brześć) accused of breaking into a Bernardine church and r... more The 1719 trial of two Jews from Brest (Brześć) accused of breaking into a Bernardine church and robbing a tomb of a prominent noble woman, raises questions of material possessions and religious boundaries. Among things stolen were clothes and textiles used in wrapping the coffin of the deceased woman. They were also one of the reasons that the robbery was discovered and the Jews were caught: some months following the robbery the daughters of the two Jewish robbers were spotted wearing dresses made of the stolen textiles. This case is certainly most notorious but it is not the only example of Jewish use of objects and textiles stolen from churches. Neither is Jewish use of "Christian" objects an example of one-directional transgression on religious boundaries and norms. Criminal records also show Christians stealing and wearing clothes that had been owned by Jews. This presentation is based predominantly on the Decree from the Lithuanian Tribunal but will be supplemented with excerpts from other trials as well.

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Note on Names and Terminology

Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation

2. Stealing Sacred Objects

Jews and Sacrilege after the Reformation

Rethinking the “Golden Age”: Jewish-Christian Relations in Pre-Modern Poland

Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations, 2011

This paper addresses the question of the “golden age” present in Polish and Jewish historiographi... more This paper addresses the question of the “golden age” present in Polish and Jewish historiographies. It demonstrates that though the idea of the “golden age” was embraced by both Polish Christian and Jewish historians, they never applied it to Jewish-Christian relations. This paper looks at the myths of the golden age and the age of decline in both historiographies by juxtaposing them with archival documents that complicate both the idea of the “zenith” or “golden age” of the 16th century and that of the decline and crisis of the 17th century.

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