Responsa in a Historical Context

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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