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. 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.
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. 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.
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.
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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
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
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