Responsa in a Historical Context : A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities through Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Responsa /
Koren, Debby
Responsa in a Historical Context : A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities through Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Responsa / Debby Koren. - 1 online resource (268 p.) - Studies in Orthodox Judaism .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- On Excommunication -- 1. Divorce out of Love: A Sixteenth-Century Woman’s Story -- 2. The Tax Cut Lobby -- 3. Are You Calling Me a Heretic?! -- 4. Families Torn Apart -- 5. What’s in a Name? -- 6. Is Your Blood Any Redder? -- 7. Excommunication in Amsterdam -- 8. South of the Equator, in the New World -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9798887193601
10.1515/9798887193601 doi
Jews--History--Brazil--17th century.
Jews--History--Netherlands--17th century.
Jews--History--Ottoman Empire--16th century.
Jews--History--Ottoman Empire--17th century.
Jews--History--Turkey--16th century.
Jews--History--Turkey--17th century.
Responsa--History and criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies.
Responsa literature, halakha, Sephardic history, Inquisition, Sephardic expulsion, Judaism, Jewish Studies.
Responsa in a Historical Context : A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities through Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Responsa / Debby Koren. - 1 online resource (268 p.) - Studies in Orthodox Judaism .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- On Excommunication -- 1. Divorce out of Love: A Sixteenth-Century Woman’s Story -- 2. The Tax Cut Lobby -- 3. Are You Calling Me a Heretic?! -- 4. Families Torn Apart -- 5. What’s in a Name? -- 6. Is Your Blood Any Redder? -- 7. Excommunication in Amsterdam -- 8. South of the Equator, in the New World -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9798887193601
10.1515/9798887193601 doi
Jews--History--Brazil--17th century.
Jews--History--Netherlands--17th century.
Jews--History--Ottoman Empire--16th century.
Jews--History--Ottoman Empire--17th century.
Jews--History--Turkey--16th century.
Jews--History--Turkey--17th century.
Responsa--History and criticism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies.
Responsa literature, halakha, Sephardic history, Inquisition, Sephardic expulsion, Judaism, Jewish Studies.