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

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

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A Winner of the 2024 Association for Jewish Studies' Jordan Schnitzer First Book Publication Award

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. Thiscollection 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 IberianPeninsula was a tragic time in Jewish history, but the revitalization of thepost-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese Jewish communities in new locales istestimony 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, agunot, 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

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