{"id":2086,"date":"2016-12-28T12:14:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.papaworx.com\/Book\/?page_id=2086"},"modified":"2017-02-05T21:20:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T01:20:34","slug":"12-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stuehlingen.online\/Book\/?page_id=2086","title":{"rendered":"12-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

This ubiquitous stream of transient, Jewish poor presented a major problem for the established Jewish communities12<\/a><\/span><\/span> and put a stress on their charitable infrastructure and taxes. The seventeenth-century minutes of the Heidingsfeld<\/em> Jewish community lists a variety of special taxes implemented to deal with the situation.13<\/a><\/span><\/span> There was a monthly tax to support the paupers\u2019 hostel (Hekdesh<\/em>), the obligatory meal and lodging vouchers (Pletten<\/em>) for transients, and finally voluntary contributions to celebrate special occasions. Part of Jewish community charity was motivated by the Halacha<\/em>, part out of the awareness that this fate could easily await any one of them. Taking care of their own poor was also necessary to deflect recriminations by the authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

St\u00fchlingen\u2019s Jews also had to deal with this problem of vagrants. They were warned [R2729]<\/span><\/a> against and fined [R899]<\/span><\/a> for giving refuge to transient Jews, and hospitality could have much more serious consequences. In 1737 Schmuli Weyl sheltered four transients over Shavuot<\/em> (Pentecost), who were subsequently caught committing theft in Schaffhausen. Schmuli found himself charged and imprisoned [R2459]<\/span><\/a> for having hosted the criminals.14<\/a><\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

A statute from 1632 was quite explicit regarding the hosting of vagrants and hinted at one of the reasons behind this policy: <\/span><\/p>\n

“The local Jews are not to house poor foreign Jews for longer than eight or ten days. Rich foreign Jews are to enter an agreement with the dominion.(!)”<\/p>\n

Against special recognition, this period could be extended somewhat:<\/span><\/p>\n

Decision: The foreign Jews are to pay half a florin per week and are to leave and search shelter elsewhere within a fortnight. If the Jews cannot pay, the fee is to be paid by those who took them into their households without permission. – As none of those foreign Jews have any property, the fee was gracefully reduced by the Landgrave. [R2065]<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jews not under protection could be evicted, even if they were employed in a household [R3192]<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

12<\/a><\/span>Heidingsfeld was a Jewish community outside of W\u00fcrzburg. For the minutes, see Wolf, \u201cThe First Pinkes of Heidingsfeld,\u201d<\/p>\n

13<\/a><\/span>Rosenthal, “Heimatgeschichte der badischen Juden,” 177.<\/p>\n

14<\/a><\/span>Ibid. 181.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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