JEWS AND JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN PUBLIC ECCLESIASTICAL LAW 9th Summer Academy on the History of the Jews in the Holy Roman Empire and its Successor States Vienna 17 – 31 July 2017 The summer academy on the history of the Jews in the Holy Roman Empire and its succesor states was established in 2009 as spin-off product of the research-cluster „The Jewish Holy Roman Empire“. From its inception the main objective of the summer academy has been to acquaint students and early career scholars with an intensive, critical, interdisciplinary, research-oriented and source-based training in the history of the Jews and their relations with the non-Jewish environment in Central Europe from the late 15th century to the present. The programme of the summer academy is focused on, but not limited to the Holy Roman Empire. It comprises altogether five components, each of which consists of at least thirteen teaching units of 90 minutes each: 1. Background Knowledge and Discussion 2. In-depth teaching units on the special topic 3. Excursions 4. Paleography Courses 5. Historical Moot Courts on the Ius Commune and Historical Jewish Law Moot Court Palaeography courses are offered in six different languages giving the participants the opportunity to acquire or enhance reading skills in orginial German, Hebrew, Yiddish, Judaeo-German and Judaeo-Spanish sources on different levels. Special Topic of the Summer Academy 2017 „Jews and Jewish Communities in Public Ecclesiastical Law“ ist the special topic of this year’s summer academy. What, at first sight, appears to be a topic for specialists only, has historically been an important factor in framing the relationship betwen state, society and Jews as a community and as individuals. In European countries whose religious constitution is not based on the complete separation betweeen state and church (Austria, Germany, France until 1905, Greece, Russia, Switzerland) the interface between state law and religious laws is still a crucial factor for understanding the relationship between Jews, state and society. Against the background of historical research being traditionally focused on the emanciption of Jews as individuals, the assumption of a general trend of secularization and the invention of the Jews as a modern nation the legal foundations for collective Jewish continuity in public ecclesiastical law have fallen into widespread oblivion. It is the objective of this year’s summer academy to bring back this important, if marginalized part of Jewish history. It is crucial for the understanding not only of European Jewish history. Knowledge of the interface between state law and the laws of religious communities is also critical for understanding the political and legal system of the State of Israel. 1 Contents a) Information.................................................................................................... 3 1) Costs and Scholarships ................................................................................... 3 2) Application .................................................................................................... 3 3) Cooperations ................................................................................................. 3 4) Faculty.......................................................................................................... 3 b) Programme (chronological) ........................................................................... 6 c) Programme................................................................................................... 29 A Background Knowlegde and Discussion ............................................................ 29 B Special Topic ................................................................................................ 31 C Excursion ..................................................................................................... 33 D German Palaeography, Beginners’ Level........................................................... 35 E German Paleography, Advanced Level.............................................................. 36 F Hebrew, German-Jewish and Yiddish Palaeography, Beginners’ Level ................... 38 G Hebrew, German-Jewish and Yiddish Palaeography, Intermediary Level ............... 39 H Hebrew, German-Jewish and Yiddish Palaeography, Advanced Level.................... 40 I Judeo-Spanish Paleography............................................................................. 41 J Ius Commune Moot Court – The Imperial Aulic Council ....................................... 42 K Historical Jewish Law Moot Court – The Rabbinic Tribunal of Prague..................... 43 d) Short Biographies......................................................................................... 44 2 a) Information 1) Costs and Scholarships Overall costs for participation include: 1. participation fee (Reading Material, Excursions, Lunch Breakand Coffee included) • € 158,40 for students of the Universtiy of Vienna / € 358,40 for Students of cooperating Universities/ € 600,00 for external students and applicants • Short-time participation: o € 185,00 / € 330,00 per week o € 70,00 / € 110,00 per day with excursion o € 30,00 / € 45,00 per day without excursion 2. Board and hotel accomodation • € 940,00 3. Travel expenses • Participants need to take care of their own travel arrangements and cover their costs Scholarships by the Gerda Henkel Foundation € 940,00 (full scholarship) / € 620,00 (partial scholarship) are available to a restricted number of applicants. Applications for scholarships need to be submitted by June 30, 2017. 2) Application Applications are to be directed to Kerstin Mayerhofer at [email protected]. Applications are accepted until 14 July, 2017, depending on the availability of places. 3) Cooperations Cooperating Universities and Research Institutes include: Friedrich-Alexander-Universtiy of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Department of History, Department Germanic Studies Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Department of History of Law Institute for the History of the Jews Hamburg Hebrew University of Jerusalem Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck, Department of History and European Ethnology Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Department of History University of Vienna, Department of Legal and Constitutional History 4) Faculty Permanent Faculty Prof. em. Dr. Friedrich Battenberg Technical University of Darmstadt Prof. Dr. Horst Carl Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen Prof. Dr. Stefan Ehrenpreis Leopold-Franzens-University of Innsbruck Prof. Dr. Edward Fram Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva Prof. Dr. Andreas Gotzmann University of Erfurt Prof. Dr. Karl Härter Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt a.Main Ulrich Hausmann, M.A. Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen- Nürnberg/University of Vienna 3 Dr. Dieter Hecht University of Vienna Dr. Louise Hecht University of Potsdam/University of Vienna Mag. Kerstin Mayerhofer, MA University of Vienna Prof. em. Dr. Peter Julius Pulzer Oxford University Dr. Michael Silber Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Dr. Thomas Simon University of Vienna Avraham Siluk, M.A. Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main Dr. Stephan Wendehorst Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen/University of Vienna Mordechai Zucker Jerusalem Faculty of Cooperating Organisations and Insitutes HR Prof. Dr. Leopold Auer Austrian State Archives P. MMag. Dipl.Bw. Frank Bayard OT Teutonic Order Vienna Rahel Blum, M.A. Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main Jesko Graf Dohna, M.A. Fürstlich Castell’sches Archiv/Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg Prof. Dr. Richard Gamauf University of Vienna Dr. Stefan Goltzberg Vrije Universiteit Brussel /Jewish Law Association Dr. Nechama Hadari Hebden Bridge/Jewish Law Association Dr. Thomas Heiler Archives of the City of Fulda Prof. Dr. Clemens Jabloner University of Vienna Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Lohlker University of Vienna Prof. Dr. Christian Neschwara University of Vienna Prof. Dr. Stefan Newerkla University of Vienna Prof. Dr. Stefan Schima University of Vienna Dr. Anna L. Staudacher, MAS University of Vienna Dr. Michael Studemund-Halevy Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wieshaider University of Vienna Dr. George Wilkes University of Edinburgh/Jewish Law Association Faculty of the Summer Academy 2017 Prof. Dr. Jay Berkovitz University of Massachusetts at Amherst Emmanuel Bloch Hebrew University of Jerusalem Sabine Bloch Herrsching Prof. Michael J. Broyde Emory University School of Law Atlanta Prof. Dr. Jonathan Burnside University of Bristol Dr. Levi Cooper Ben-Gurion-University of the Negev, Beer Sheva Sergey Dolgopolski University at Buffalo, SUNY Prof. Arye Edrei Tel Aviv University ADir.in Irene Förster Supreme Administrative Court of Austria Dr. André Griemert Gymnasium Hohe Schule Hanau Dr. Werner Hanak-Lettner Jewish Museum Vienna Neal Hendel Supreme Court of the State of Israel, Jerusalem Prof. Shael Herman Tulane Law School New Orleans Prof. Dr. Anton Mordecai Kanevskiy Lomonosov Moscow State University Prof. Dr. Birgit Klein Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg Dr. Gabriele Kohlbauer Jewish Museum Vienna Mag. Mag Klaus Mayr The Austrian Federal Chancellery Prof. Dr. Rachel Manekin University of Maryland Gabriel Moeller Fulda Dr. Frank Nesemann Speyer Dr. Peter Roland Vienna Mag. Roswitha Schnabl Constitutional Court of Austria Dr. Gábor Schweitzer Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest Prof. Dr. Shimon Shetreet Greenblatt Chair of Public and International