Jewish Questions : Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period.
Title:
Jewish Questions : Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern Period.
Author:
Goldish, Matt.
ISBN:
9781400829002
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THE HAKHAMIM -- PART I: LIFE AMONG MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS -- 1: CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF OTTOMAN-ITALIAN WARS (GREECE, 1716) -- 2: THE FINANCIAL FALLOUT OF A BLOOD LIBEL (RAGUSA, 1622) -- 3: A BLOOD LIBEL AMONG THE SEPHARDIM (OTTOMAN EMPIRE, MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- 4: PREPARATIONS FOR SIEGE (ALGIERS, 1732) -- 5: THE JEW WHO STOOD UP TO THE GOVERNOR-BUT MAYBE NOT ENOUGH (ALGIERS, MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY) -- PART II: TRADE AND OTHER PROFESSIONS IN THE SEPHARDI DIASPORA -- 6: AN INTERNATIONAL LOAN GONE AWRY (MEDITERRANEAN, LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY) -- 7: THE WOMAN WITH A STEEL WELDING MONOPOLY (ALEPPO, CA. 1559) -- 8: DEATH OF A SALESMAN IN PERSIA (BURSA AND PERSIA, LATE SIXTEENTH CENTURY) -- 9: A CASE OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY (CONSTANTINOPLE, LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- 10: THE DEATH OF TALL ASLAN (ALEPPO AND TURKEY, 1681) -- 11: EGYPTIAN JEWS WITH CIVET CATS (EGYPT, MID-SIXTEENTH CENTURY) -- 12: JEWISH TRADE IN A WAR ZONE (ZANTE AND VENICE, CA. 1620) -- 13: THE TALE OF THE CLOTHIER AND THE VIZIER (CONSTANTINOPLE, 1641) -- PART III: LIFE WITHIN THE SEPHARDIC COMMUNITY -- 14: DIVORCE AND AN INDIAN IMPOSTOR (GREECE, MID-SIXTEENTH CENTURY) -- 15: THE GREAT FIRE OF SALONIKI (SALONIKI AND LEPANTO, 1620) -- 16: AN APOSTATE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE (ZANTE, CA. 1620) -- 17: THE FALLOUT FROM A TALL BUILDING (OTTOMAN EMPIRE, EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- 18: POLISH FUGITIVES IN EGYPT (EGYPT, LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- 19: THE QUARANTINE COLONY IN SPALATO (SPALATO, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- 20: UNSCRUPULOUS PARTNERS AND THE FEAR OF FORCED CONVERSION (RHODES, EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- 21: A CHANGE OF FORTUNE, AN UNWILLING WIFE, AND A CITY IN PANIC (MOROCCO, ALGERIA, AND EGYPT, 1737) -- 22: THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF A DENUNCIATION (MEKNES, MOROCCO, 1721-1728).
23: THE PERSECUTION OF A WITNESS TO IMMORALITY (TANGIER AND FEZ, 1744) -- PART IV: RITUAL OBSERVANCE AND JEWISH FAITH IN SEPHARDIC COMMUNITIES -- 24: THE JEW ACCUSED OF HERESY (OTTOMAN EMPIRE, EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY) -- 25: JEWS BECOMING KARAITES AND KARAITES BECOMING JEWS (EGYPT, LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- 26: BEQUESTS OF CONVERSOS AND THEIR STATUS AS JEWS (ISTANBUL, EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY) -- 27: THE CONVERSO AND THE CHARITABLE FRATERNITY (AMSTERDAM, LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- 28: MONSTROUS BIRTHS AND MARVELOUS CREATURES (VENICE, MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- 29: PROTESTANTS WHO SEND MONEY TO POOR JEWS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL (PALESTINE, MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- 30: WHAT MAY A JEW DO WITH A NATIVITY MEDALLION? (GREECE, EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY) -- 31: ON LOANING MONEY TO PRIESTS (JERUSALEM, CA. 1624) -- 32: THE PENITENCE OF THE KASTORIA COMMUNITY (GREECE, LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- PART V: MARRIAGE, FAMILY, AND PRIVATE LIFE -- 33: A CONVERSO AND HIS FLEMISH CONCUBINE (TURKEY, EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY) -- 34: A CONVERT REPUDIATES HER MARRIAGE (OTTOMAN EMPIRE, EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY) -- 35: THE MELANCHOLIC MONOGAMIST (EGYPT, LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- 36: THE AFFLICTED BIGAMIST (MOROCCO, EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY) -- 37: A SUSPICIOUS PREGNANCY (SHEKHEM [NABLUS], PALESTINE, 1721) -- 38: THE UNREPENTANT ADULTERER (WESTERN EUROPE, 1730) -- 39: A SLAVE AMONG THE WARS IN BELGRADE (BELGRADE, LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- 40: A SEXUALLY ABUSED WIFE (OTTOMAN EMPIRE, LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- 41: ON THE MANIPULATION OF WOMEN'S RIGHT TO DIVORCE (EGYPT, MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY) -- 42: A MOTHER'S QUEST FOR JUSTICE (BELGRADE, 1698) -- 43: THE RUNAWAY GROOM (BAYONNE, 1742) -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
In Jewish Questions, Matt Goldish introduces English readers to the history and culture of the Sephardic dispersion through an exploration of forty-three responsa--questions about Jewish law that Jews asked leading rabbis, and the rabbis' responses. The questions along with their rabbinical decisions examine all aspects of Jewish life, including business, family, religious issues, and relations between Jews and non-Jews. Taken together, the responsa constitute an extremely rich source of information about the everyday lives of Sephardic Jews. The book looks at questions asked between 1492--when the Jews were expelled from Spain--and 1750. Originating from all over the Sephardic world, the responsa discuss such diverse topics as the rules of conduct for Ottoman Jewish sea traders, the trials of an ex-husband accused of a robbery, and the rights of a sexually abused wife. Goldish provides a sizeable introduction to the history of the Sephardic diaspora and the nature of responsa literature, as well as a bibliography, historical background for each question, and short biographies of the rabbis involved. Including cases from well-known communities such as Venice, Istanbul, and Saloniki, and lesser-known Jewish enclaves such as Kastoria, Ragusa, and Nablus, Jewish Questions provides a sense of how Sephardic communities were organized, how Jews related to their neighbors, what problems threatened them and their families, and how they understood their relationship to God and the Jewish people.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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