Michaël Green
Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (52), 2023, s. 279 - 295
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.23.013.18939The article introduces key concepts related to research into the historical notions of privacy, provides a brief historiographical overview, and discusses methodological tools that allow the researcher to examine privacy in primary sources. The second part discusses examples of the Jewish lived experience in the early modern period that were not only shaped by Jewish legal discourses but by the specific living conditions of an ethno-religious minority. The article offers some suggestions as to how privacy could have been understood in early modern Jewish communities and how individuals may have negotiated it in regards to the concepts of home, intimacy, gender, and notions of secrecy.
* This article has been written within the framework of IDUB – Initiative for Excellence – Research University at the University of Łódź.
Michaël Green
Studia Judaica, Nr 2 (52), 2023, s. 339 - 374
https://doi.org/10.4467/24500100STJ.23.015.18941Public and Private in Jewish Egodocuments of Amsterdam (ca. 1680–1830)
The present article deals with egodocuments, written by Jews in Amsterdam, in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. It traces the development in this type of sources and assesses how the authors depicted various notions and aspects of privacy in them. The privacy aspects did not only pertain to the individuals, but also to the Jewish community as a whole and its relationship with the local population in Amsterdam as well as the state authorities. These findings have been placed in the historical and political context.
Michaël Green
Scripta Judaica Cracoviensia, Volume 15, 2017, s. 25 - 46
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843925SJ.17.002.8171