{"product_id":"jewish-questions-responsa-on-sephardic-life-in-the-early-modern-period-9780691122656","title":"Jewish Questions  Responsa on Sephardic Life in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduces 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The selection of responsa in this book is a serious contribution to preserving not only memory of those responsa, but also perpetuating an understanding of the Jewish communities in which they were written.\"--Jay Levinson, Jewish Magazine \"Taken on its merits ... this is a book that is not without charm, and will introduce general readers to a body of relatively unfamiliar and often graphically written sources.\"--Nichola De Lange, Journal of Jewish Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xi  Introduction xvii  Short Biographies of the Hakhamim lviii      PART I: Life among Muslims and Christians  Chapter 1: Caught in the Middle of Ottoman-Italian Wars  (Greece, 1716) 5  Chapter 2: The Financial Fallout of a Blood Libel (Ragusa, 1622) 8  Chapter 3: A Blood Libel among the Sephardim (Ottoman Empire, mid-seventeenth century) 13  Chapter 4: Preparations for Siege (Algiers, 1732) 15  Chapter 5: The Jew Who Stood Up to the Governor--But Maybe Not Enough (Algiers, mid-eighteenth century) 16      PART II: Trade and Other Professions in the Sephardi Diaspora  Chapter 6: An International Loan Gone Awry (Mediterranean, late-sixteenth century) 23  Chapter 7: The Woman with a Steel Welding Monopoly (Aleppo, ca. 1559) 26  Chapter 8: Death of a Salesman in Persia (Bursa and Persia, late sixteenth century) 29  Chapter 9: A Case of Mistaken Identity (Constantinople, late seventeenth century) 32  Chapter 10: The Death of Tall Aslan (Aleppo and Turkey, 1681) 35  Chapter 11: Egyptian Jews with Civet Cats (Egypt, mid-sixteenth century) 38  Chapter 12: Jewish Trade in a War Zone (Zante and Venice, ca. 1620) 39  Chapter 13: The Tale of the Clothier and the Vizier (Constantinople, 1641) 42      PART III: Life within the Sephardic Community  Chapter 14: Divorce and an Indian Impostor (Greece, mid-sixteenth century) 53  Chapter 15: The Great Fire of Saloniki (Saloniki and Lepanto, 1620) 58  Chapter 16: An Apostate Soldier of Fortune (Zante, ca. 1620) 61  Chapter 17: The Fallout from a Tall Building (Ottoman Empire, early seventeenth century) 64  Chapter 18: Polish Fugitives in Egypt (Egypt, late seventeenth century) 66  Chapter 19: The Quarantine Colony in Spalato (Spalato, seventeenth century) 68  Chapter 20: Unscrupulous Partners and the Fear of Forced Conversion (Rhodes, early seventeenth century) 71  Chapter 21: A Change of Fortune, an Unwilling Wife, and a City in Panic (Morocco, Algeria, and Egypt, 1737) 73  Chapter 22: The Causes and Consequences of a Denunciation  (Meknes, Morocco, 1721-1728) 77  Chapter 23: The Persecution of a Witness to Immorality (Tangier and Fez, 1744) 83      PART IV: Ritual Observance and Jewish Faith in Sephardic Communities  Chapter 24: The Jew Accused of Heresy (Ottoman Empire, early sixteenth century) 93  Chapter 25: Jews Becoming Karaites and Karaites Becoming Jews (Egypt, late seventeenth century) 96  Chapter 26: Bequests of Conversos and Their Status as Jews (Istanbul, early sixteenth century) 99  Chapter 27: The Converso and the Charitable Fraternity (Amsterdam, late seventeenth century) 102  Chapter 28: Monstrous Births and Marvelous Creatures (Venice, mid-seventeenth century) 106  Chapter 29: Protestants Who Send Money to Poor Jews in the Land of Israel (Palestine, mid-seventeenth century) 109  Chapter 30: What May a Jew Do with a Nativity Medallion? (Greece, early sixteenth century) 112  Chapter 31: On Loaning Money to Priests (Jerusalem, ca. 1624) 115  Chapter 32: The Penitence of the Kastoria Community (Greece, late seventeenth century) 120      PART V: Marriage, Family, and Private Life  Chapter 33: A Converso and His Flemish Concubine (Turkey, early sixteenth century) 127  Chapter 34: A Convert Repudiates Her Marriage (Ottoman Empire, early sixteenth century) 129  Chapter 35: The Melancholic Monogamist (Egypt, late seventeenth century) 131  Chapter 36: The Afflicted Bigamist (Morocco, early eighteenth  century) 134  Chapter 37: A Suspicious Pregnancy (Shekhem [Nablus], Palestine, 1721) 136  Chapter 38: The Unrepentant Adulterer (Western Europe, 1730) 139  Chapter 39: A Slave among the Wars in Belgrade (Belgrade, late seventeenth century) 143  Chapter 40: A Sexually Abused Wife (Ottoman Empire, late seventeenth century) 147  Chapter 41: On the Manipulation of Women's Right to Divorce (Egypt, mid-seventeenth century) 150  Chapter 42: A Mother's Quest for Justice (Belgrade, 1698) 153  Chapter 43: The Runaway Groom (Bayonne, 1742) 155      Bibliography 159  Index 171","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403737178455,"sku":"9780691122656","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691122656.jpg?v=1730484401","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jewish-questions-responsa-on-sephardic-life-in-the-early-modern-period-9780691122656","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}