Protocols of justice
Subtitle: the pinkas of the Metz rabbinic court 1771-1789
By: by Jay R. Berkovitz
Series: Studies in Jewish history and culture -- volume 44
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1330
ISBN-13: 9789004265158; 9789004276987; 9789004276994; 9789004265165
Subjects: Jews; Sources; Legal status, laws; History; Rabbinical courts; Court records
Other titles: Pinkas of the Metz rabbinic court 1771-1789; Pinḳas bet ha-din shel ḳ.ḳ Mets
Description: 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 Jay R. Berkovitz, and a thorough analysis of its significance for history and law at the threshold of modernity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: [V. 1.] Introduction; title: Law and historical narrative in the eighteenth century --; title: Communal autonomy and rabbinic jurisdiction --; title: Legal acculturation and its broader social foundations --; title: Overlapping jurisdictions : between legal centralism and legal pluralism --; title: Women, family, and property ---- Conclusion-- [v. 2. Court records].