Responsa in a Historical Context

A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities through Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Responsa

Debby Koren (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2024
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
979-8-88719-359-5 (ISBN)

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A Winner of the 2024 Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication AwardThis book contains a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa, alongside the original Hebrew texts, focusing on the post-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese communities of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. This collection will acquaint the reader with Jews who, following their expulsion, settled in the Ottoman Empire, in Palestine under the Mamluks, in Amsterdam and in Brazil. The period of the expulsion of the Jews from the Iberian Peninsula was a tragic time in Jewish history, but the revitalization of the post-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish communities in new locales is testimony to the human spirit and determination.

The volume includes eight chapters, each built around one responsum from one of the great halakhic authorities of the time. Topics include excommunication in Amsterdam, ʻagunot, inheritance rights of a converso son, obligatory contracts and breach of agreement, heresy and humanist scholarship, informing on someone to the Venetian Inquisition, and more.

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Debby Koren is an independent researcher in the fields of halakha and responsa literature. She has lectured and taught Talmud and halakha in informal and formal adult settings. She has a Ph.D. in mathematics from The City University of New York and an M.A. in Talmud and Halakha from the Schechter Institute in Jerusalem.

Introduction

Overview

The Halakhic Discourse in Responsa

Translation and Presentation

The Eight Responsa

Notes on Translation, Transliteration, and Citations

Glossary

Abbreviations

Further Reading

Acknowledgments

On Excommunication

Responsa

1. Divorce out of Love: A Sixteenth-Century Woman’s Story—Rabbi David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra Responsum 1,398

2. The Tax Cut Lobby—Rabbi Joseph ibn Lev Responsum 4:14

3. Are You Calling Me a Heretic?!—Zᵉqan Aharon 25

4. Families Torn Apart—Rabbi Moses ben Joseph di Trani Responsum 1,142

5. What’s in a Name?—Rabbi Samuel de Medina Yo-re Deʻa 199

6. Is Your Blood Any Redder? The Case of an Informer in the Venetian Inquisition—Rabbi Solomon ben Abraham Ha-Kohen Responsum 4,31

7. Excommunication in Amsterdam—Baḥ (Ha-Yᵉshanot) 5

8. South of the Equator, in the New World—Torat Ḥayyim 3,3

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Erscheinungsdatum	12.12.2023
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Verlagsort	Brighton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 233 mm
Gewicht	381 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	979-8-88719-359-5 / 9798887193595
Zustand	Neuware