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The Jewish Law Annual Volume 16
Volume 16 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish Law that have been published in volumes 1-15 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly material meeting the highest academic standards. The volume contains seven articles diverse in their scope and focus, encompassing legal, historic, textual, comparitive and conceptual analysis, as well as a chronicle of cases of interest, and a survey of recent literature. Three of the articles, one of which explores references to Genesis in (western) canon law, make up a special section on the book of Genesis. The other topics covered are: suicide as an act of atonement in Jewish law; early interpretations of the Bible and Talmud as reflecting medieval legal realia; Ashkenazic codifiers in Spain; and authority, custom and innovation in the seventeenth-century Italian halakhic encyclopedia, Pahad Yitzhak.
The Jewish Law Annual Volume 18
Volume 18 of The Jewish Law Annual contains six comprehensive articles on various aspects of Jewish law. Three articles address family law. One addresses the painful issue of the plight of the wife whose husband withholds conjugal relations. In a marriage where relations are withheld, the wife may seek a divorce, while her husband may withhold divorce. Prolonged withholding of divorce renders the wife an agunah, that is, a wife chained to a dead marriage and unable to start anew and rebuild her life. The author explores the halakhic feasibility of allowing a wife in such a predicament to bring a claim for damages against her husband for infliction of mental distress. If such claims are allow...
The Jewish Law Annual Volume 14
The volume contains ten articles, including a penetrating analysis of the application of Jewish price fraud law to the workings of the present-day marketplace. Diverse in their scope and focus, the articles address legal, historical, textual, comparative and conceptual questions. The volume concludes with a survey of recent literature on biblical and Jewish law, and a chronicle section, which discusses recent Israeli and American court cases involving issues where Jewish law is of particular relevance, thereby making the Annual a journal of record.
The Jewish Law Annual Volume 17
Volume 17 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1-16 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly articles presenting jurisprudential, historical, textual and comparative analysis of issues in Jewish law. The volume contains seven articles diverse in their scope and focus. Two articles are devoted to the halakhic thought of Rabbi A. I Kook; two treat classic legal questions: breach of a promise to marry, and the legal capacity of minors; two examine aspects of the judicial process, one exploring talmudic analyses of the biblical requirement that courts be established in every town, and the other, post-talmudic views on judicial authority in cases suspected of fraudulent claims. Another article addresses the fascinating question of the epistemic-pedagogic worldviews of the rival Tannaitic legal academics, the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai. The volume concludes with a section on Israeli legislation that adduces or is informed by Jewish law, and two reviews of a much-discussed recent book on a topic of considerable contemporary interest: the agunah problem.
Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews
Scholars of Jewish folklore as well as of Talmudic-Midrashic literature will find this volume to be invaluable reading.
The Jewish Law Annual Volume 19
Volume 19 of The Jewish Law Annual is a festschrift in honor of Professor Neil S. Hecht. It contains thirteen articles, ten in English and three in Hebrew. Several articles are jurisprudential in nature, focusing on analysis of halakhic institutions and concepts. Elisha Ancselovits discusses the concept of the prosbul, asking whether it is correct to construe it as a legal fiction, as several scholars have asserted. He takes issue with this characterization of the prosbul, and with other scholarly readings of Tannaitic law in general. The concepts of dignity and shame are addressed in two very different articles, one by Nahum Rakover, and the other by Hanina Ben-Menahem. The former discusses...
Communication in the Jewish Diaspora
The Jewish diasporic experience stands out in its remarkable scope, duration and cohesiveness. Communication is the dynamic mechanism that negotiates the interplay of these factors; hence this volume on Jewish Diasporic Communications. The Jewish Diaspora is unique in another way too: through most of their exilic experience, Jews did not have a geographical center to which they could orient themselves. The perspective guiding this volume is that the center of the Jewish Diaspora has been the communicative network linking its scattered communities in space, and the media serving its continuity through historical time. This Diasporic network has sustained a common flow of shared content between Jews and Jewish communities, let alone the imagination of connectedness. Thus, Diaspora Jews as Jews, and the People they comprise, existed—to invoke John Dewey—“in communication.” The studies in this volume, spanning antiquity and modernity and crossing disciplinary boundaries, provide together a broad-ranging and in-depth account of how a People can survive for millennia, without a homeland, but in communication.
The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics
Explores how Judaism as a religion and Jews as a people relate to the economic sphere of life in modern society as well as in the past.
