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Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
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Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe (Hardcover)
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Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe is a topic laced by prejudice on
one hand and apologetics on the other. Beginning in the Middle
Ages, Jews were often portrayed as criminals driven by greed. While
these accusations were, for the most part, unfounded, in other
cases criminal accusations against Jews were not altogether
baseless. Drawing on a variety of legal, liturgical, literary, and
archival sources, Ephraim Shoham-Steiner examines the reasons for
the involvement in crime, the social profile of Jews who performed
crimes, and the ways and mechanisms employed by the legal and
communal body to deal with Jewish criminals and with crimes
committed by Jews. A society's attitude toward individuals
identified as criminals - by others or themselves - can serve as a
window into that society's mores and provide insight into how
transgressors understood themselves and society's atttudes toward
them. The book is divided into three main sections. In the first
section, Shoham-Steiner examines theft and crimes of a financial
nature. In the second section, he discusses physical violence and
murder, most importantly among Jews but also incidents when Jews
attacked others and cases in which Jews asked non-Jews to commit
violence against fellow Jews. In the third section, Shoham-Steiner
approaches the role of women in crime and explores the gender
differences, surveying the nature of the crimes involving women
both as perpetrators and as victims, as well as the reaction to
their involvement in criminal activities among medieval European
Jews. While the study of crime and social attitudes toward
criminals is firmly established in the social sciences, the history
of crime and of social attitudes toward crime and criminals is
relatively new, especially in the field of medieval studies and all
the more so in medieval Jewish studies. Jews and Crime in Medieval
Europe blazes a new path for unearthing daily life history from
extremely recalcitrant sources. The intended readership goes beyond
scholars and students of medieval Jewish studies, medieval European
history, and crime in pre-modern society.
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