
Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe (with Prof. Ephraim Shoham-Steiner)
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Jewish Community in Germany, From the Fourteenth Century Onwards
Most data that i have, and most of the data that s up, comes up from hilophic material. But before the fourteenth century, it's almost all internal jewish material. So none of the jewish aspects of crime register at all outside. I wanted to do two things, a, look into the jewish communities and understand what is going on. And b, deliver to them something about how jewish men and women who live in these areas as urban dwellers of the middle ages, relate to crime.
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