Responsa in a Historical Context : : A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities through Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Responsa / / Debby Koren.

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• VerfasserIn: Koren, Debby,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Orthodox Judaism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)

This 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

Table of Contents

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