Abstrakt
In Eger, the city-state on the border of Bohemia and the German lands of the Holy Roman Empire, there are preserved six books of obligations, covering the period from 1385 until 1496. They contain records concerning Jewish as well as Christian obligations.
Just as in other cities, the records are very brief, telling us only the essentials of the obligations: the names of debtors and creditors, the sum owed, the pledge and the interest (if there were any), and the due date. If we want to know anything else about the social or economic context, we must look at other municipal books and sources.
In my presentation, I will explain the specificities of Eger materials in relation to other sources of Jewish moneylending in Bohemian lands, as well as the possibilities of how to use this material to gain information about Jewish society in the urban space of Eger.