Christoph Cluse has published his German review of Rainer J. Barzens’ Taqqanot Qehillot Šum. Die Rechtssatzungen der jüdischen Gemeinden Mainz, Worms und Speyer im hohen und späten Mittelalter. 2 vols. Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Hebräische Texte aus dem mittelalterlichen Deutschland, 2 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019.
Category Archives: Opinion
Review of Mordechai Z. Cohen’s “The Rule of ‘Peshat'”
You can now read Katrin Kogman-Appel’s review of Mordechai Z. Cohen’s The Rule of “Peshat.” Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900–1270 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).
Review of Abel Lamauvinière’s “Les juifs et le judaïsme à Troyes”
You can now read Bruno Saint-Sorny’s review of Abel Lamauvinière, Les juifs et le judaïsme à Troyes du XIe au XIVe siècle (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2021) via Francia Recensio.
Exhibition: Jews, Medicine and the University of Padua
Read a report on the Exhibition “Jews, Medicine and the University of Padua” by Rabbi Edward Reichman, MD via Seforim blog.
Report from the Workshop on the recently found Mikveh in Chemnitz
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At the beginning of this year, a mikveh was discovered in Chemnitz during archaeological investigations on the edge of the Chemnitz city center. It is a brick structure with a rectangular basin into which two steps lead down. Neither the archaeological context nor the construction method allows concrete conclusions about the age; the mikveh seems to be late medieval or early modern.
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by Simon Paulus, University of Stuttgart
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The Austrian daily “Der Standard” recently published an article by Sebastian Fellner reporting on the latest developments in a conflict over the rescue of the preserved ruins of the medieval synagogue in Korneuburg. As the city continues its efforts to buy the historic building from the private owner, who installed a garage entrance in it for his car in 2007, the case vividly shows how public interest, monument protection and the ideas of the private owner can be diametrically opposed, leading to years of stalemate.
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