Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen aims to explore with this symposium how Jewish individuals and Jewish communities that existed across Europe throughout the early modern period, defined and related to their private space and privacy in relation to the public sphere. This is particularly important, because the Jewish communities existed in different social and legal conditions in various states. While in the United Provinces, the Jews were not persecuted, and some of them even enjoyed a rather good economic and social position, in many other countries the situation was radically different and they suffered from persecution and insecurity. The five speakers coming from Europe, Israel and the US will focus on two main domains: literary representations of notions of privacy, and spatial privacy. We aim at creating a discussion on privacy within the field of Jewish history and Studies and invite scholars and students interested in this topic to attend and participate in the discussions.