Ideals face reality : Jewish law and life in Poland, 1550-1655 / Edward Fram.

Author
Fram, Edward [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press, c1997.
Description
xii, 186 p. ; 24 cm.

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Summary note
  • In this scholarly study, Fram draws upon the ordinances of Polish Jewry's political leadership, Polish legal records, and the responsa of some of the outstanding poseqim of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to show how Polish jurists responded to those complexities.
  • His case studies, gleaned from a period of exceptional creativity in the annals of Polish Jewry, deal with weddings on the Sabbath, the rights of daughters to familial wealth, women in the marketplace, the personal reliability of those who dealt in the sale of kosher wine, competition among Jews for sources of livelihood obtained through leases (arendy), the transfer and payment of personal debts via bills payable to bearers (membrany), and personal insolvency.
  • Fram shows how the Polish community, at times consciously and at times unconsciously, transformed some of its traditional values until they may have been unrecognizable to Jews from an earlier age.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-178) and indexes.
Action note
Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Ch. 1. Jews Among Poles
  • Ch. 2. The Jewish Community
  • Ch. 3. Personal Piety
  • Ch. 4. Social Issues as Halakhic Determinants
  • Ch. 5. The Acquisition of Leases
  • Ch. 6. Bills Payable to Bearers
  • Ch. 7. Bankruptcy and Those who Fled their Creditors
  • Index of Medieval and Pre-Modern Rabbinic Sources Cited.
ISBN
0878204202 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^97002538^//r97
OCLC
36865425
RCP
H - S
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