Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities through...

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Debby Koren

Responsa in a Historical Context

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

Debby Koren

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English

Academic Studies Press
08 May 2024

European history; Social & cultural history; Comparative religion; Judaism: life & practice; Jewish studies

A Winner of the 2024Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Awardtestimony to the human spirit and determination.

The volume includes eight chapters, each built around one responsumfrom one of the great halakhic authorities of the time. Topics include excommunication in Amsterdam, agunotobligatory contracts and breach of agreement, heresy and humanist scholarship, informing on someone to the Venetian Inquisition, and more.

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By: Debby Koren
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 233mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 381g
ISBN: 9798887193595
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 08 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 Index

Debby Korenis 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.

Reviews for Responsa in a Historical Context: A View of Post-Expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish Communities through Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Responsa

"""In Responsa in a Historical Context, Debby Koren makes these fascinating yet extraordinarily difficult documents come alive. She succeeds admirably in overcoming the challenge that faces all who would write about responsa for an audience of non-specialists, namely to offer a sufficient explanation of the historical and halakhic (Jewish legal) context behind each submitted question without allowing that explanation to overwhelm the text and to drown out the unique voice of the rabbinical author. The book is an indispensable source of information, both on the history of the period it covers and on the ways that rabbis think, how they utilize textual analysis, logic, and rhetoric to craft answers to the questions that Jews asked.” — Mark E. Washofsky, Professor Emeritus of Jewish Law and Practice, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati"