Religion in the Mirror of Law
Eastern European Perspectives from the Early Modern Period to 1939
Edited by Yvonne Kleinmann, Stephan Stach and Tracie L. Wilson
Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte 280
Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann 2016. XXVII, 350 S.
ISSN 1610-6040
ISBN 978-3-465-04181-8
Thema des Buches ist die Reflexion religiöser Zugehörigkeit im Rechtsdenken, in den politischen Verfassungen und der Rechtswirklichkeit des östlichen Europa. Wie imaginierten parlamentarische Vertretungen, Religionsgemeinden, Gelehrte und Literaten eine ethnisch-religiös gemischte Gesellschaft? Wie wirkten sich Herrschaftswechsel auf das Leben und die Institutionen der verschiedenen Religionsgemeinschaften aus? Auf welchen Ebenen konkurrierten Religionsgesetz, aufgeklärte Vernunft und staatliches Recht? Wie wurde ethnisch-religiöse Koexistenz theoretisch konzipiert und lokal praktiziert?
Diese Fragen untersucht die aus einer internationalen Konferenz in Lviv hervorgegangene Aufsatzsammlung aus historischen, anthropologischen, rechts- und literaturwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven.
Contents
Acknowledgements | VII
Note on Transliteration | VIII
Yvonne Kleinmann, Stephan Stach, and Tracie L. Wilson
Reflections on the Meanings of Religious Belonging in Eastern European Legal Culture: An Introduction | IX
Imagining Law – Imagining Society
Jürgen Heyde
Polemics and Participation: Anti-Jewish Legislation in the Polish Diet in the 16th Century and its Political Context | 3
Anna Juraschek
Shylock as a Symbol of the Disenfranchised Jew – A Comparative Study of Karl Emil Franzos’ and Rudolf von Jhering’s Legal Thinking | 21
Jana Osterkamp
»Imagined Law« and »Imagined Communities«: Confessional Collectives and their Ideas for a Federal Habsburg Partition of Galicia | 41
Tracie L. Wilson
Emergent Law: Women’s Charity and Anti-Trafficking Associations as Sites for Enacting Social Reform | 61
Shifts in Political Rule and the Reorganization of Law
Angela Rustemeyer
Blasphemy’s Long Shadow:
Confessional, Legal, and Institutional Conflict in the Tsarist Partition of Poland under Catherine II | 89
Oksana Leskiv
Trust and Conflict: Relations between Ruthenian Priests and Peasants in 19th-Century Galicia | 109
Hanna Kozińska-Witt
Austrian Law, Krakovian Habitus, and Jewish Community:
The Construction of New Local Hierarchies in Habsburg Galicia | 127
Stephan Stach
The Institute for Nationality Research (1921–1939) – A Think Tank for Minority Politics in Poland? | 149
Competing Laws – Competing Loyalties
Dror Segev
Enlightenment versus Religious Law: Debating Jewish Burial in the Hebrew Press of Late Imperial Russia | 183
Vladimir Levin
Civil Law and Jewish Halakhah: Problems of Coexistence in the Late Russian Empire | 213
Liliana Hentosh
Competing Loyalties in Galicia: The Challenges Facing Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi after the Disintegration of the Habsburg Empire | 241
Ethno-Religious Coexistence in Legal Norm and Practice
Anat Vaturi
Voivodes and their Office as Agents of the Law in Christian-Jewish Coexistence: The Example of Early Modern Krakow | 263
Yvonne Kleinmann
How to Safeguard a Town Constitution in Early Modern Poland:
A Case Study on the Legal Status of Christians and Jews | 283
Maria Cieśla
The Other Townsfolk: The Legal Status and Social Positions of the Jews in Cities of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 17th and 18th Centuries | 307
Eugene M. Avrutin
Economic Entanglements and Neighborly Disputes in the Northwest Provinces of the Russian Empire | 329
Notes on Contributors | 347