Dr. Susanne Härtel erforscht die Geschichte jüdischer Gemeinschaften im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit, mit aktuellem Fokus auf die Entstehung rabbinischer Autorität im Osmanischen Reich um 1500. Sie untersucht konkret, wie der Rabbiner Elijah Mizrahi in Konstantinopel seine Autorität gegenüber einwandernden sephardischen Juden behauptete und welche Strategien lokale und zugewanderte Gemeinschaften bei der Aushandlung von Macht und Zugehörigkeit einsetzten. Ihre Forschung basiert auf der Analyse von responsa-Literatur (rabbinischen Rechtsgutachten) und zeigt, wie religiöse und rechtliche Entscheidungen gesellschaftliche Konflikte widerspiegeln und gestalten. Die Erkenntnisse sind relevant für Geschichtswissenschaft, Migrationsforschung und das Verständnis von Governance in multireligiösen Gesellschaften.
🔒 Das System hat 161 mögliche Industrie-Partner gefunden — Firmen, Scores und Begründungen sind nur für eingeloggte Nutzer:innen sichtbar. Anmelden
Dr. Susanne Härtel
HU-FIS-Profil ↗Förderer: DFG Eigene Stelle (Sachbeihilfe) Zeitraum: 10/2023 - 09/2027 Projektleitung: Dr. Susanne Härtel
Hamsa · 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.
European Judaism · 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.
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.