Constructing a Town-Wide Genealogy: Jewish Mattersdorf, Hungary, 1698–1939 Filed Under Collaboration, Magyarország By Carole Garbuny Vogel and Yitzchok N. Stroh on April 1, 2007 On November 16, 1707, 18-year-old Jakob stood in front of a three-member beit din (rabbinical court) to testify about an unfortunate joke that he had made four years earlier. On the first day of Sukkot in 1703, Jakob, the son […]