Jews in Medieval Central Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F22%3A73618220" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/22:73618220 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190920715.013.21" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190920715.013.21</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190920715.013.21" target="_blank" >10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190920715.013.21</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Jews in Medieval Central Europe
Original language description
This chapter focuses on the practices of the world of Jewish communities in medieval Central Europe. It compares their structures, legal frameworks, economy, rabbinic movements, intellectual life, and culture across the region, and sums up their influence on the key modern anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish views projected during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Textual sources suggest that the earliest Jewish inhabitants of medieval Central Europe were merchants. During the thirteenth century, the number of the Jewish communities in East Central Europe increased dramatically. This development was directly connected to the process of urbanization; the new towns offered opportunities for Jews to settle and earn a living. Several Central European monarchs issued letters of privilege that defined the basic legal framework of Jewish life. However, violent persecutions and expulsions reshaped the settlement structure of Jews in Austria, Moravia, and Silesia from the end of the fourteenth century on.
Czech name
—
Czech description
—
Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
—
OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Result continuities
Project
—
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Central Europe
ISBN
978-0-19-092071-5
Number of pages of the result
23
Pages from-to
483-505
Number of pages of the book
601
Publisher name
Oxford University Press
Place of publication
Oxford
UT code for WoS chapter
—