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A Jew in the Street: New Perspectives on European Jewish History, 2024
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Jewish History, 2024
This study focuses on a member of the secondary rabbinic elite in northern Italy around the year ... more This study focuses on a member of the secondary rabbinic elite in northern Italy around the year 1600, Rabbi Jacob Heilbronn (d. 1625). Based on an examination of legal sources cited by Heilbronn in a responsum and a Judeo-German handbook of Jewish law that he prepared, the article argues that Heilbronn understood the notion of German, or Ashkenazic Jewry as a cultural construct that was independent of geography. He was interested in a specificlegal tradition handed down from generation to generation, wherever it may have migrated to, not the practices of Jews living in the German lands. Thus, Heilbronn accepted Rabbi Moses Isserles (d. 1572) of Kraków as an authoritative voice of Ashkenazic practice. The study notes that in the years between the publication of Rabbi Joseph Caro’s legal code, Shulhan ‘Arukh, in 1565 and its republication with Isserles’s glosses in Venice (1593), and probably for a few years thereafter, Heilbronn relied on Caro’s Shulhan ‘Arukh even though it often represented Sephardic traditions. However, once Heilbronn had access to legal works from Poland, he not only adopted them in his own legal thinking but adapted them for the use of others through vernacularization.
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Debra Kaplan and Edward Fram, “The Four Species in Pre-Modern Europe: Views from East and West,” in Joshua Teplitsky, Sharon Liberman Mintz, and Warren Klein, eds., Be Fruitful!: The Etrog in Jewish Culture, Art, and History (Jerusalem: Mineged Press, 2022), 97-120
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Edward Fram, “The Vilna Talmud as a Reflection of Changing Patterns of Study,” in François Guesnet, Antony Polonsky, Ada Rapoport-Albert, and Marcin Wodziński, eds., Jewish Religious Life in Poland Since 1750 [=Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, vol. 33] (Oxford: Littman Library, 2021), 173-183
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