Jews, Credit and Usury in medieval and early modern times: What’s new in the field?
כנס בשיתוף פעולה של המכון הישראלי ללימודים מתקדמים ושל מכון המחקר הצרפתי בירושלים.
תכנית הכנס:
9h30 Opening
François Bon (CRFJ/Toulouse University)
Evelyne Oliel-Grausz (University Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne/ CRFJ/IIAS)
9h45-10h30
Pinchas Roth (Bar Ilan University): Usury, Trickery and Philology: Responsa
and Pseudo-Responsa by Isaac of Dampierre
10h30-11h15
Pierre Savy (Ecole française de Rome), Judith Kogel (Irht, Centre national de la recherche scientifique): Credit and usury, Christians and Jews : the views of Meir ben Simeon of Narbonne (c. 1250-1270)
11h15-11h30 Coffee break
11h30-12h15
Kenneth Stow, (Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at the University of Haifa): Meir b Simeon, the pope, and credit: Doth usury a ghetto make?
12h15-13h15 Lunch break
13h15-14h15
Francesca Trivellato, (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton): Jewish Usury: Medieval and Early Modern Declensions
14h15-15h00
Edward Fram (IIAS / Ben Gurion University): Disputed contracts. Roman vs. Jewish
Law in early modern non-Jewish legal forums
15h00-16h00
Evelyne Oliel-Grausz (University Paris 1/CRFJ/IIAS): ‘Cas van ribit’ Forbidden interest in court: the Montel case between Surinam and Amsterdam (1752-64)
16h00-16h45
Jessica Maya Marglin (University of Southern California) Jews, Credit, and
Usury in 19th-Century Morocco: Between Shari’a and Custom
16h45 Conclusion