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In Collected Studies (Volume 1): The Jews of Provence, Joseph Shatzmiller, the foremost expert on Provençal Judaism, offers a comprehensive overview of the medieval history of the Jews in Provence. Through an analysis of community regulations, tax distribution, rabbinic leadership, and everyday life, Shatzmiller provides a rich and powerful mosaic of Jewish society in Provence. This masterful work sheds light on the diverse experiences of Jews in the region, from their interactions with Christian neighbors to their internal conflicts and struggles. With its insightful analysis and meticulous research, The Jews of Provence is an essential read for anyone interested in the history of Jewish communities in medieval Europe.
"The collection of studies that these four volumes offer is the result of more than sixty years of commitment to scholarship. Like many colleagues, I relied in the beginning on printed material in books that dealt with law, religion, and secular literature. Then, as a disciple of George Duby, I discovered the world of archives and hand-written Latin manuscripts. The present collection relies, to a great extent, on previously unknown information discovered during years of search in the archives of Southern France, mostly on those of the county of Provence. They are situated in the cities of Marseille and Aix-en-Provence as well as the town of Digne. The legal registers of the High Middle Ages (1250-1350) as well as those produced by the counties' administration introduce us to the ordinary people of the region, to their daily life and to their preoccupations; their names are spelled out, the dates are recorded and the localities in which they were active are designated. At times these documents encourage us to endorse information found in contemporary literary sources and to overcome our hesitation and excessive caution concerning their value as historical evidence."
— Joseph Shatzmiller
Contents
Vol. One: The Jews of Provence: Introductory Observations
An Introduction
I Tolerance: Its Reason and Its Limits
1. Les Angevins et les Juifs de leurs États: Anjou, Naples et Provence
2. The Angevins of Naples and the Jews
3. Saint Louis et l'usure juive
II Historical Records In Hebrew
1. כרונוגראפיה פרובנסאלית 1בקונדרסו האבוד של שם טוב שאנצולו
(Provencal Chronicles in the Lost Book of Shem-Tov Sancholo)
2. שלמה ן׳ וירגה וגירוש יהודי אנגליה
(Shlomo Ibn Verga and the Expulsion of the Jews from England)
3. תקנות פרובנסאליות משנת 1313
(Provençal Ordinances of 1313)
III A State Agency—The Jewish Community
1. Community and Super-Community in Provence in the Middle Ages
2. L'organisation communautaire et les limites du "self-government" en Provence (1250-1350)
3. L'excommunication, la communauté juive et les autorités temporelles au Moyen-Âge
4. La Perception de la Tallia Judeorum en Provence au milieu du XIVe siècle
5. Encore la Tallia Judeorum
6. La "collecta" de Perpignan (1412)
IV Within the Jewish Community
1. Politics and the Myth of Origins: The Case of the Medieval Jews
2. Structures communautaires juives à Marseille: autour d'un contrat de 1278
3. Documents de la communauté d'Aix-en-Provence (1336)
4. En Provence médiévale: les Juifs de Gordes (Vaucluse) 1312
5. Rabbi Isaac Ha-Cohen of Manosque and his Son Rabbi Peretz: The Rabbinate and its Professionalization in the Fourteenth Century
6. Une «matriarche» juive au tournant du XIVe siècle: Rosa de Grassa
V Solidarity and Its Limits
1. Les limites de la solidarité: antagonismes au sein de la société juive ancienne et moderne
2. La solidarité juive au moyen âge et ses limites : histoire et contre-histoire
3. Au sein de la commu nauté juive : l'etranger et sa concurrence économique
4. "Violence, chantage et mariage: Arles 1387
VI Tumult and Uproar in the Synagogue
1. Tumultus et Rumor in Sinagoga: An Aspect of Social Life in Provençal Jews in the Middle Ages
2. Tumultus et Rumor in Sinagoga: suite d'une enquête
