Réponses des rabbins (she’eloth u-teshuvoth) et leur importance dans le contexte de l’histoire des juifs aux pays tchèques
Answers of the rabbis (she’eloth u-teshuvoth) and their importance in the context of the history of the Jews in the Czech countries
Author(s): Vladimir SadekSubject(s): Cultural history, Jewish studies, Social history, History of Judaism, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Židovské Muzeum v Praze
Keywords: Jewish history in Czech lands; Bohemia and Moravia;
Summary/Abstract: The contribution pays attention to the most important responsive texts (she’eloth u-teshuvoth, shu”t) concerning the religious history of Jews in Bohemia and Moravia, their culture, etc. Besides their religious and legal importance, they are also historical sources. Medieval te(xts are discussed first (Yitshak bar Moshe Or Zarua, Asher ben Yehiel, Eliezer ben Nathan, Shelomo ben Abraham Adret, Yisrael Isserlein, Yisrael ben Hayyim Brunna, and others), then the main responsive texts dating from the 16th—17th centuries are characterized (Polish responsa, Menahem Mendel Krochmal, Yona ben Eliyahu Landsofer, and others). As for the 18th and 19th centuries, responsa by Ezechiel Landau, Shemuel Landau and Eleazar Fleckeles are mentioned.
Journal: Judaica Bohemiae
- Issue Year: XX/1984
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 31-42
- Page Count: 12
- Language: French
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