Migration processes and mobility of European Jews at the transition from the middle Ages to the modern age
Abstrakt
The conference focused on the migration of the Jewish population in Central Europe during the 15 and 16 centuries. Different factors combined at that time, leading to situations which forced individuals and entire communities to leave their homes and seek a new place in which to live.
The political and social causes and consequences of such forced migration of Jews in individual countries will be discussed, as will the significant displacement associated with the expulsion of Jews from entire areas. At the same time, however, there was natural movement of people in Jewish society at that time, together with a transfer of ideas and knowledge, taking place at religious, cultural, and economic level (e.g. education in yeshivas, Hebrew book printing, the mobility of Jewish doctors and other specialists, or the transfer of knowledge of lending and banking).