I am German-trained, New York-based scholar of early modern and modern Central European and trans-regional Jewish history. My first book was on Wissenschaft des Judentums; my second book will be on Jewish court factors (Hofjuden).
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The very complexity of Habsburg Central Europe both in synchronic and diachronic perspective precludes any singular historical narrative of “Habsburg Jewry,” and it is not the intention of this volume to offer an overview of “Habsburg Jewish history.” The selected articles in this volume illustrate instead how important it is to reevaluate categories, deconstruct historical narratives, and reconceptualize implemented approaches in specific geographic, temporal, and cultural contexts in order to gain a better understanding of the complex and pluricultural history of the Habsburg Empire and the region as a whole.
The very complexity of Habsburg Central Europe both in synchronic and diachronic perspective precludes any singular historical narrative of “Habsburg Jewry,” and it is not the intention of this volume to offer an overview of “Habsburg Jewish history.” The selected articles in this volume illustrate instead how important it is to reevaluate categories, deconstruct historical narratives, and reconceptualize implemented approaches in specific geographic, temporal, and cultural contexts in order to gain a better understanding of the complex and pluricultural history of the Habsburg Empire and the region as a whole.
The international workshop takes a new look at the concepts of Jewish intercession/diplomacy (shtadlanut) and righteousness/charity (tzedakah), in order to identify ways in which they are interrelated and how did these interrelations change over time. Key questions of the workshop are: How did Jews represent and negotiate their interests and »otherness« in different societies? Why and how could they receive exclusive rights in cultural, economic, and legal systems from the early modern period up to the 20th century? How influential were the concept of tzedakah and other charitable practices on Jewish political traditions? Finally, how were intercession and welfare adapted in the course of the modern era?