Half Profit, Half Loss: Negotiating Jewish Economic Law in Non-Jewish Courtrooms

HALF PROFIT, HALF LOSS – NEGOTIATING JEWISH ECONOMIC LAW IN NON-JEWISH COURTROOMS

Verena Kasper-Marienberg’s research focuses on the intersection of Jewish and Christian communities in the early modern period in Europe. She is especially interested in questions of legal practice, gender relations, and socio-economic structures in early modern societies. Currently, she is completing a book about the daily life of the Frankfurt Jewish community in the 18th century as well as working on a new study on the rural Jewry of Bohemia after the 30-Years War. She has published on a number of topics like Jewish female litigation, criminal history, Jewish-Christian shared spaces, and the media (re)presentation of early modern political events.