Dr. Susanne Härtel

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Dr. Susanne Härtel erforscht jüdische Geschichte im Mittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit, mit Schwerpunkt auf religiöse Autorität, Gemeinschaftsstrukturen und Vielfalt innerhalb jüdischer Gesellschaften. Sie untersucht, wie jüdische Gemeinden in Konfliktsituationen — etwa bei Migration oder religiösen Fragen — ihre Identität und Hierarchien verhandelten. Ihre Expertise umfasst die Analyse von Quellen wie rabbinischen Rechtsgutachten und archäologischen Befunden, um Prozesse sozialer Integration und Machtverhältnisse in multireligiösen städtischen Kontexten zu verstehen.

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Dr. Susanne Härtel

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Philosophische Fakultät

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Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften

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Europäische Geschichte des Spätmittelalters

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• Wie wird man zur rabbinischen Autorität aller Juden? Der Konstantinopolitaner Elijah Mizrahi (um 1450-1526) und die sephardische Immigration.

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• A Question of Competition? How to Deal with Inner-Jewish Diversity in Cities of the Ottoman Empire at the Turn of the 16th Century

  2022

  Hamsa · 2 Zitationen · DOI

  The starting point of this essay lies in current discussions about Jewish diversity and unity. It focuses on the Jewish population in several cities of the Ottoman Empire around 1500. At that time, the local Greek Jewish (Romaniot) population saw itself confronted with thousands of Iberian Jewish (Sephardic) refugees. An understanding of the situation as one of competition for authority makes it possible to ask about the strategies the Romaniot rabbi Elijah Mizraḥi pursued as reflected in some of his legal opinions. I argue that it was in Mizraḥi’s interest to overcome competition within the heterogeneous Jewish population, through either cooperation, concession, integration, or marginalisation. An analysis of his writings thus provides an insight into context-specific contemporary constructions of Jewish unity.

• The Authority to Define a Jew

  2023

  European Judaism · 1 Zitationen · DOI

  Abstract This article focuses on a rabbinic controversy between the Greek Jewish scholar Elijah Mizrah . i and his Iberian colleague Jacob Ibn Ḥabib in the Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The case at hand concerned specific legal questions regarding levirate marriage. These had become particularly difficult with the involvement of converts, posing fundamental questions about Jewish group affiliation. Analysing the related but contrasting legal opinions of Mizrah . i and Ibn Ḥabib, I suggest distinguishing between an intellectual approach and a traditionalist approach to answering these questions. Whereas earlier scholarship has attributed the scholars’ diverging conclusions mainly to their different cultural backgrounds, I argue that Mizraḥi and Ibn Ḥabib chose different lines of reasoning for strategic reasons, grounded in their particular political situations.

• Jüdische Friedhöfe im mittelalterlichen Reich

  2017

  1 Zitationen · DOI

  Jewish cemeteries existed for centuries in the Holy Roman Empire. Unlike earlier research, this study shows that the gravesites of this religious minority were not the primary sites of conflict. Instead, they provide evidence of a multi-religious society where, for the most part, Jewish and Christian spheres of life existed in quite natural proximity and in relation to one another.

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