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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2024]
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Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
Series:Studies in Orthodox Judaism
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Physical Description:1 online resource (268 p.)
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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