Rare Documents on Jewish Wealth, Blood Libels, and Israel | Show & Tale: Pinny Stieglitz (Part 1)

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The opening of this shiur, in 18Forty’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

i'm so excited i'm in the house of one of my oldest and dearest friends penny stieglitz to show us the amazing books judaica and treasures that he has in his own home it's gonna be great our series show and tale will take you inside some of the great libraries both public and private to explore books and treasures from jewish history okay take us a little bit so what do we have so that is from mantawa around 1750 mantawa around 1750 and it's a sanctuary law it's subtler well sanctuary law so cecil roth deals with this in one of his books the jews all over europe but especially in italy had to be very careful not to upset their neighbors with their ostentatious display of wealth really so uh the city had to self-impose sanctuary laws on its own keep it low-key to keep it low-key you couldn't wear the non-jews imposed it on the jewish community the jews had to impose jewish community the jews had to impose self-imposed okay so what were some of the rules uh no black velvet uh for uh people um they they just couldn't wear black velvet too glamorous too glamorous the amount of buckles on your shoe uh the amount of people that you could invite to a simchat this is the original wedding this is the original wedding takana and it's all in this sanctuary law here from mentor and what year again is this around 17 50 1775 it's so funny and try to do it again it probably didn't work because did people listen we

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1. 0:00i'm so excited i'm in the house of one of my oldest and dearest friends penny…
2. 0:33mantawa around 1750 and it's a sanctuary law it's subtler well sanctuary law so cecil roth…
3. 1:35didn't work because did people listen we have any idea of people listening i think they…
4. 2:36parallel yes exactly you if you contributed to the community yeah so then they would allow…
5. 3:07uh i went to someone's house um about 30 years ago okay and they didn't have…
6. 4:12showing the jews draining the blood from the little boy and you why did they print…
7. 5:14labeling specific people and they were executed and they were killed and i believe this accusation…
8. 5:45is usually to know who the seller is uh-huh and he has a yeah okay he…
9. 6:45that's my father that's him at his huston's tish and this is the blue javarebba this…
10. 7:48you in a few minutes and he promised it to me for my bar mitzvah and…

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