The film is set in 1935 Tartu and at the University of Tartu, where, a year earlier, Professor Lazar Gulkowitsch, exiled from Germany, had established a chair of Judaic Studies within the Faculty of Philosophy.
On the other hand, the noun precedent is frequently used in the phrase "to set a precedent," meaning "to set an example or rule to be followed." The word is often used in legal contexts, where it denotes a judicial decision that should be followed by a judge when deciding a later similar case.
