Plaintes juives et contentieux judéo-chrétien. Le cas de Pitigliano dans le Grand-duché de Toscane au xviiie siècle (1745-1803)

This article inquires into the specificity of Jewish attitudes toward Christian power in the Grand-Duchy of Tuscany and is meant to reconstruct the history of legal contentions between Jews and Christians during the second half of the 18th century starting from the case of the small town Pitigliano. Through the analysis of the communication carried out by the "Jewish University" with the Grand-ducal institutions, this study sheds light on some of the multiple paths of Jewish integration within local groups of right-holders, as well as on ways of Jewish penetration inside Christian political and juridical arenas. Through the vicissitudes of Jewish pleaders coping with Christian power and on the basis of their pleas, it is possible to write a history of the Jewish political and diplomatic experience. The case of the Jews of Pitigliano enables to appreciate the multiform dimension of Jewish social experiences in the Diaspora and to approach Jewish communitarian and individual trajectories.