Description
Rabbinic courts were and remain an integral part of the Jewish community and the Jewish community in Frankfurt in the late eighteenth century had not one but two such courts. The courts handled a wide range of issues including divorces, contracts, real estate transactions, trusts, estates, and also gave opinions on the scope of Jewish communal authority. This particular case deals with a house on the so called "Judengasse" in Frankfurt. The Jewish ghetto was divided up into lots that had names rather than street numbers and houses on the lots were often owned by more than one family. The case before us deals with reaching an equitable division of the house among it owners. More introductory information about the Jewish ghetto and some of the families who lived there can be found at http://www.judengasse.de/index.htm.
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Event Website
http://www.judengasse.de/index.htm
Start Date
23-8-2005 9:00 AM
Location
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Included in
Civil Law Commons, Courts Commons, History of Religion Commons, Jewish Studies Commons, Judges Commons, Jurisprudence Commons
The Personal Record Book of Hayyim Gundersheim Dayyan (1774)
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Rabbinic courts were and remain an integral part of the Jewish community and the Jewish community in Frankfurt in the late eighteenth century had not one but two such courts. The courts handled a wide range of issues including divorces, contracts, real estate transactions, trusts, estates, and also gave opinions on the scope of Jewish communal authority. This particular case deals with a house on the so called "Judengasse" in Frankfurt. The Jewish ghetto was divided up into lots that had names rather than street numbers and houses on the lots were often owned by more than one family. The case before us deals with reaching an equitable division of the house among it owners. More introductory information about the Jewish ghetto and some of the families who lived there can be found at http://www.judengasse.de/index.htm.
This presentation is for the following text(s):
https://research.library.fordham.edu/emw/emw2005/emw2005/6
