Salvation of Soul as well as Spectacle: Jewish Conversions in Central European Space until 1848

Abstract

International conference, held in Brno on 15-17 October 2019. The main organizers of the project were the Prague Center for Jewish Studies (Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Charles University of Prague, Faculty of Arts), Lehrstuhl für Neuere Geschichte unter Einbeziehung der Landesgeschichte, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Society for the History of Jews in the Czech Republic, Republic, Samuel-Steiherz-Stiftung, Nürnberg, Institut für jüdische Geschichte Österreichs St.

Pölten. The topic of the conference was Jewish conversions from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period.

Keywords

• Jews
• conversion
• Middle Ages
• Early Modern Period
• Central Europe