1506-9729 Privacy in Jewish Sources Diemling Maria author Green Michaël author Canterbury Christ Church University, Wielka Brytania University of Lodz Correspondence to: Maria Diemling maria.diemling@canterbury.ac.uk Correspondence to: Michaël Green michael.green@filhist.uni.lodz.pl 14 12 2023 Nr 2 (52) 2023 279 295 Copyright © 2023 2023 This article has been written within the framework of IDUB – Initiative for Excellence – Research University at the University of Łódź. <p>The 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. 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