Responsa in a Historical Context

<p dir=ltr><span>This book contains a collection of eight annotated translations of responsa alongside the original Hebrew texts focusing on the post-expulsion Spanish-Portuguese communities of the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries. Topics include excommunication in Amsterdam </span><span>ʻagunot</span><span> inheritance rights of a converso son obligatory contracts and breach of agreement heresy and humanist scholarship informing on someone to the Venetian Inquisition and more.</span></p>