Shared Histories: Rabbinic and Archival Sources in Legal and Cultural Conversation
An evening in celebration of the project „Responsa and Archival Sources from Medieval Ashkenaz in Legal and Cultural Conversation“ directed by Simcha Emanuel (Hebrew University Jerusalem) and Eva Haverkamp-Rott (LMU), in cooperation with Christoph Cluse and Jörg Müller (Arye Maimon-Institute, Trier), sponsored by the German-Israeli Foundation (GIF)
Wednesday July 14, 2021 online
7 p.m. CEST Introduction
EVA HAVERKAMP-ROTT (Munich) and the GIF project team
7.15 p.m. In Defense of Jewish Autonomy: A Rabbinic Ruling for Medieval Regensburg in Light of Municipal History
RACHEL FURST (Munich/Jerusalem) and SOPHIA SCHMITT (Munich)
7.45 p.m. Keynote lecture:
Rabbinic Courts as Intermediaries: The Fight for Jewish Autonomy and Non-Jewish Administration in Medieval Cologne
JUDITH OLSZOWY-SCHLANGER (Oxford/Paris)
To register and receive a Zoom link, please write to Anna Gross at gross.anna@campus.lmu.de by July 13
