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Eyal Levinson, « Public Lecture - Elisheva Baumgarten: "Legal Knowledge and Everyday Practice in Medieval Ashkenaz" », medievalJewishStudiesNow!, ID : 10.58079/rhkz
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25th Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture in Judaic Studies. Jewish legal texts are an important source for social history, and scholars have looked to rabbinic responsa and halakhic codes that detail how the law should be observed in order to better understand how daily life was actually lived. Yet, to what extent do these legal sources reflect the lives of all members of the communities within which they were written? Perhaps they convey only the priorities of the elite learned men ...