Pitched between Scylla and Charybdis: Metz Jews’ Litigation Hurdles in the Metz Beit Din and Ancien Regime French Courts

Abstract During the eighteenth century, French courts expanded their competence over Jewish disputes in order to consolidate the kingdom’s hegemony over Alsatian Jewry. In Metz, the expansion was sanctioned by a royal order for the composition of the Recueil des Loix, Coutumes, et Usages Observes pa...

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Published in:The review of rabbinic Judaism
Main Author: Herman, Shael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: The review of rabbinic Judaism
Further subjects:B Alsatian Jewry
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