A Jewish Model of Devolution?
The Inheritance in the Medieval and Modern Jewish Societies Workshop n°1: Conversions, marriage and generations
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Workshop organized by Michaël Gasperoni (CNRS/CRM) and Isabelle Poutrin (UPEC/CRHEC – POCRAM ANR 13-CULT-0008)
Monday, 13th February 2017
Université Paris-Est-Créteil-Val-de-Marne, 61 Avenue du Général de Gaulle, 94000 Créteil
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In the last two decades, the history of the Jewish family has been at the center of several studies that have – in the light of a more general historiographical evolution – considerably renewed the subjects and perspectives of this field of research. In this context that made the Jewish studies a well distinguished discipline, we wish to focus on an aspect that has never been studied systematically and has never been subject to a methodological and comparative synthesis: the patrimonial transmission.
What is at stake here, are multiple issues: Because of its complexity and the multiplicity of its dimensions (legal, socio-economic, cultural and religious, anthropologic), heritage can be considered as a central element and a key to understand phenomena of social reproduction and the functioning of Jewish societies that are sometimes highly diverse and particularly influenced by the local contexts where their presence can be either very ancient or very recent. The diverse waves of expulsions that took place in the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Era have thus caused migratory movements that have on their turn contributed to the constitution of Jewish communities of highly different customs.
This multiplicity of origins and affiliations has probably exercised a considerable influence over the practices of patrimonial devolution that we propose to study in different perspectives and contexts in the long term. Three major topics will be taking into consideration during this workshop: the material culture and the quantification of the patrimony, marriage and intergenerational relations and the very important question of the transmission in the context of conversions.
For more information, please send an email to: jewishinheritance2016@gmail.com
Editorial board:
Michaël Gasperoni (CNRS – Centre Roland Mousnier, University Paris Sorbonne) Cyril Grange (CNRS – Centre Roland Mousnier, University Paris Sorbonne) Pierre Savy (University Paris-Est Marne la Vallée)
Kenneth Stow (University Haïfa)
9h : Introduction
9h15-11h15 : Culture matérielle et quantification du patrimoine
Manuela Militi (Sapienza – Università di Roma) : La culture matérielle dans le ghetto juif de Rome à l’époque moderne.
Michaël Gasperoni (CNRS/Centre Roland Mousnier) : Quantifier le patrimoine et la transmission : aspects méthodologiques.
11h15-11h30 : Pause
11h30-13h30 : Mariage, famille, générations
Angela Groppi (Sapienza – Università di Roma) : Solidarité, assistance et transmission entre les générations dans le ghetto juif de Rome au XVIIIe et XIXe siècles.
Cyril Grange (CNRS/Centre Roland Mousnier) : Alliance et patrimoine : une étude des contrats de mariage de la bourgeoisie juive parisienne (1870-1900).
15h-17h : Conversion et transmission : aspects juridiques, sociaux et politiques Samuela Marconcini (Chercheuse indépendante) : Abandonner la religion des pères sans perdre son droit à l’héritage.
Isabelle Poutrin (Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne/CRHEC) : Romana Dotis de Boncompagnis (1613). La réclamation de dot d’une jeune convertie, devant le tribunal de la Rote romaine.
17h : Conclusions et discussion générale
