The Pinkas of the Metz Rabbinic Court, 1771-1790

The Center for Jewish History and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011, announce a symposium, Hidden from History: The Pinkas of the Metz Rabbinic Court, 1771-1790: Issues and Offshoots, convened by Jay R. Berkovitz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Largely unknown to historians, the much-neglected records of rabbinic courts represent an unusually rich source for the study of the early modern family, community, social and economic life, and jurisprudence. With the approaching publication of the Pinkas of the Metz Beit Din, and following the recent appearance of the Frankfurt rabbinic court diary, “Hidden from History” will explore the range of issues that came before rabbinic courts in the last third of the eighteenth century and the implications of these records for the construction of memory and historical narrative.

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