The Daily Life of Dubrovnik’s Jews in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, as seen through the Ragusan Republic’s Court Registers: The Hidden Treasures in the State Archives of Dubrovnik

itigations are among the major archival sources for the reconstruction of daily life, customs, problems, relationships between people. The major objectives of this book are research, extracting, inventory and cataloguing documents of the Court Registers of the Republic involving Jewish litigants from the period between 1670 until her collapse in 1808, the funds “Lamenta del Criminale” (charges submitted to the penal Court of the Republic of Dubrovnik), "Criminalia" (sentences of the penal Court) and "Diversi e possesso de criminali" (two separate departments of the penal Court regarding a./ real estate (problems concerning sale, acquisitions, maintenance, repairs, annexation, renting) and b./ the verbal attacks.. his catalogue provides answers to such questions as if the judges of Dubrovnik’s Court discriminated against Jews? What were relations of Dubrovnik’s authorities towards Jews? What were the preconditions for such a relation? How did the Dubrovnik’s citizens of Catholic faith treat their Jewish co-citizens? Did the special political status of the Republic reflect on the daily life of Dubrovnik’s Jews? Was the daily life of Dubrovnik’s Jews freer and better than in other areas, for example on the Apennine Peninsula or in neighboring Ottoman lands? And finally, it will provide an important tool for the future genealogical research of Jews living for centuries in the Free Republic of Dubrovnik.