Contents of the Hebrew Volume; Preface; Acknowledgements; Maps; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Metz Community; The Metz Beit Din; Chapter 1. Law and Historical Narrative in the Eighteenth Century; Law as a Source of Social and Cultural History; Law as a Cultural System; The Production of the Pinkas Beit ha-Din of Metz; Chapter 2. Communal Autonomy and Rabbinic Jurisdiction; The Authority of the Beit Din; Sources of Law; Judicial Procedure; Functions of the Beit Din; Chapter 3. Legal Acculturation and Its Broader Social Foundations; 1. Language.

2. Production of Bi-lingual Documents3. Material Culture; 4. Standards of Conduct among Litigants; Chapter 4. Overlapping Jurisdictions: Between Legal Centralism and Legal Pluralism; 1. The Pervasiveness of French Law; 2. The Acquaintance of the Beit Din with French Judicial Procedure; 3. The Impact of French Law on Rabbinic Jurisprudence; Chapter 5. Women, Family, and Property; Betrothal and Marriage; Inheritance; Guardianship; Marital Property; Women in Credit and Commerce; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Archival and Manuscript Sources.