Jews, Credit and Usury in medieval and early modern times: What’s new in the field? (reportage)




9h30 Opening
François Bon (CRFJ/Toulouse University)
EvelyneOliel-Grausz(UniversityParis1Panthéon Sorbonne/CRFJ/IIAS)

9h45-10h30
Pinchas Roth(Bar IlanUniversity):Usury, Trickery and Philology: Responsa and Pseudo-Responsa by Isaac of Dampierre

10h30-11h15
Pierre Savy(Ecole française de Rome), Judith Kogel (Irht,Centre national de la recherche scientifique): Credit and usury, Christians and Jews: the views of Meir ben Simeon ofNarbonne(c.1250-1270)

11h30-12h15
Kenneth Stow, (Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at the University of Haifa):Meir b Simeon, the pope, and credit: Doth usury a ghetto make?

13h15-14h15
Francesca Trivellato, (Institute for Advanced Study,Princeton): Jewish Usury: Medieval and Early Modern Declensions

14h15-15h00
EdwardFram(IIAS/Ben Gurion University):Disputedcontracts.Roman vs. Jewish Law in early modern non-Jewish legal forums

15h00-16h00
Evelyne Oliel-Grausz(UniversityParis 1/CRFJ/IIAS)‘Cas van ribit’Forbidden interest in court: the Montel case between Surinam and Amsterdam (1752-64)

16h00-16h45
Jessica Maya Marglin(Universityof Southern California) Jews, Credit, and Usury in 19th-Century Morocco: Between Shari’a and Custom