Protocols of Justice (2 Vol. Set)

The Pinkas of the Metz Rabbinic Court 1771-1789
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-26515-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 1334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 2359 g

Reihe: Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Presented here to the public for the first time, the Pinkas of the Metz Beit Din is the official register of civil cases that came before the Metz rabbinic court in the two decades prior to the French Revolution. Brimming with details of commercial transactions, inheritance disputes, women’s roles in economic life, and the interplay between French law and Jewish law, the Metz Pinkas offers remarkable evidence of the engagement of Jews with the surrounding society and culture. The two volumes of Protocols of Justice comprise the complete text of the Metz Pinkas Beit Din, which is fully annotated by the author, and a thorough analysis of its significance for history and law at the threshold of modernity.

Through his painstaking and path-breaking treatment of this incredibly nuanced and rich text, Jay Berkovitz has placed before academics and all other interested readers a heretofore untapped resource of vast importance. His insightful and extensive introductory monograph beautifully sets the stage for scholars in a wide array of fields to mine this material, which will undoubtedly yield significant new results in the history of Jewish and non-Jewish society in eighteenth-century Europe and beyond. Ephraim Kanarfogel, E. Billi Ivry University Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Law, Yeshiva University

Protocols of Justice is a scholarly tour de force. Jay Berkovitz has not only brought to life a type of source that has been all but ignored in the study of Jewish life in Europe in the early modern period but offers a rich introduction that places the material in its historical context. This is a book that will stand the test of time and is a must for academic libraries. Edward Fram, Department of Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berkovitz, Jay R

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen Französische Revolution
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Moderne & Gegenwart
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Jüdisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Rabbinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1 - English
Maps
Introduction
Abbreviations used in footnotes
Chapter 1: Rabbinic Court Records: Law and Historical Narrative in the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 2: Civil Autonomy and Rabbinic Jurisdiction
Chapter 3: Legal Acculturation and Its Broader Social Foundations
Chapter 4: Overlapping Jurisdictions: Between Legal Centralism and Legal Pluralism
Chapter 5: Women, Family, and Property
Conclusion
Volume 2 - Hebrew
Introduction
Facsimile Page from the Pinkas
Volume One, Part One: Fol. 5a-46a, July 1771– December 1774
Volume One, Part Two: Fol. 2a-54b, January 1774 – July 1777
Volume Two: Fol. 1a-147a, August 1777 – 1 July 1789
Appendix 1: Additional Cases August 1789 – January 1790
Appendix 2: List of Judges on the Beit Din
Appendix 3: Copy of consultation from Messieurs Pierre-Louis Roederer and Paquin, avocats
Appendix 4: List of Places
Appendix 5: List of Foreign (non-Hebrew) Words and Phrases
List of Abbreviations

Über Autor(innen)

Jay R. Berkovitz, Ph.D. (1983), Brandeis University, is Professor and Chair of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has published widely on the Jews in early modern Europe, including Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860 (UPenn, 2004).