Jewish Questions: Responsa on Sephardic Life in the Early Modern PeriodIn 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. |
Contents
Introduction | xv |
Short Biographies of the Hakhamim | lvii |
Caught in the Middle of OttomanItalian Wars | 5 |
A Blood Libel among the Sephardim Ottoman Empire | 13 |
An International Loan Gone Awry Mediterranean | 23 |
Death of a Salesman in Persia Bursa and Persia | 29 |
The Death of Tall Aslan Aleppo and Turkey 1681 | 35 |
The Tale of the Clothier and the Vizier | 42 |
The Persecution of a Witness to Immorality Tangier | 83 |
The Jew Accused of Heresy Ottoman Empire early | 93 |
Bequests of Conversos and Their Status as Jews Istanbul | 99 |
Monstrous Births and Marvelous Creatures Venice | 106 |
What May a Jew Do with a Nativity Medallion? | 112 |
The Penitence of the Kastoria Community Greece | 120 |
A Converso and His Flemish Concubine Turkey early | 127 |
38 | 139 |
Divorce and an Indian Impostor Greece midsixteenth | 53 |
An Apostate Soldier of Fortune Zante ca 1620 | 61 |
The Quarantine Colony in Spalato Spalato seventeenth | 68 |
The Causes and Consequences of a Denunciation | 77 |
A Slave among the Wars in Belgrade Belgrade late | 143 |
Bibliography | 159 |
Constantinople 1641 | 165 |
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