The Pinkassim Project: Recovering the Records of European Jewry, in conjunction with Brown University in Providence and the Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University is pleased to announce the workshop »Early Modern Ashkenazi Record Keeping. Pinkassim as Historical Sources.« The workshop will take place at the Faculty Club of Brown University on Tuesday, July 19, from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.
The Pinkassim Project aims at digitizing and making available the communal records of the Ashkenazi communities of early modern Europe. As part of our work, we want to discuss the historical, textual, and linguistic context of the Pinkassim with interested academics and students at all levels and from various disciplines. Talks will be devoted to language and tradition of the record books as well as to Pinkassim as sources for understanding communal autonomy and identity. The workshop will give valuable insights into Ashkenazi Jewish life in early modern Europe.
For registration please write to Sabrina Walter by 13 July 2016 (email: pinkassim@dubnow.de).