Jewish Law and Life in Poland, 1550-1655
Edward Fram
$21.95s / ISBN 0-87820-420-2
180 pages / 6 x 9
1997
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Face Reality Jewish Law and Life in Poland, 1550-1655 Edward Fram |
Jewish life in early modern Poland was characterized by an adherence to the halakhah that Polish Jewry had inherited from medieval Franco-German Jewry, and almost all aspects of Jewish activity, even the most personal of matters, fell within its purview. Edward Fram draws upon rabbinic legal decisions (responsa), talmudic and legal exegesis, the ordinances of Polish Jewry's political leadership, Polish legal records, and the responsa of some of the outstanding posequin of the 16th and 17th centuries to show how Polish jurists responded to unfamiliar circumstances. Fram examines cases in which the halakhah confronted unfamiliar circumstances or the special needs of individuals or groups within the community. Faced with questions of ambiguity, rabbis had to reconcile contemporary realities with the demands of a tradition perceived to represent divine law. | "This informative and well-written book—easily accessible to those unskilled in the intricacies of Talmud study, for which Polish Jewry was famed—is an important contribution to the field of Polish Jewish history."—The Slavonic and East European Review | |||||||||||||
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by Hebrew Union College Press $21.95s / ISBN 0-87820-420-2 180 pages / 6 x 9 1997 |
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