{"title":"An Introduction to Jewish Law","authors":"Wolfgang Wieshaider","doi":"10.1017/9781108379878.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108379878.001","url":null,"abstract":"The Historical Jewish Law Moot Court aims to introduce participants to Jewish law as it was practiced in the early modern period. The focus is on the application of Jewish law under concrete historical conditions rather than on Jewish law as a timeless normative system. Cases adjudicated by the Rabbinic Tribunal of Prague, arguably the most important Jewish legal forum both in the Western Ashkenazic world and in the Holy Roman Empire, will serve as a point of reference for the Historical Jewish Law Moot Court. In 2016 a case from the 18th century, where guardians were tried for the embezzlement of the property of an orphan provided the background for the Historical Jewish Law Moot Court, in 2017 it was the division of an estate contested between three brothers and a sister.","PeriodicalId":276305,"journal":{"name":"An Introduction to Jewish Law","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132020316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jewish Law As a Religious Legal Order","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108379878.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108379878.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276305,"journal":{"name":"An Introduction to Jewish Law","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127217733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jewish Law As a Subject for Study","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108379878.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108379878.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276305,"journal":{"name":"An Introduction to Jewish Law","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117151111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jewish Law and the Law of Nations","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108379878.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108379878.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":276305,"journal":{"name":"An Introduction to Jewish Law","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123209114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}