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1. Martyrs, Merchants and Rabbis: Jewish Communal Conflict as Reflected in the Responsa on the Boycott of Ancona.

Author

Saperstein, Marc

Subjects
*RESPONSA, *RABBIS, *BOYCOTTS, *HARBORS, *JEWISH law, *JEWISH history, *MERCHANTS, *OTTOMAN Empire
Abstract

The article discusses the importance of rabbinic responsa or legal decisions of the Ottoman rabbis. One of the most unmatched events in pre-modern Jewish history is the boycott of the port of Ancona in 1556. The responsa or legal decisions are the most valuable sources for Jewish social and communal history. All the powerful political personalities including Pope Paul IV, Suleiman the Magnificent, and Guidobaldo II were confronting each other vehemently during the boycott. Merchants and traders in Italy and throughout the Ottoman Empire got fortunes during this dramatic episode of boycott.

Published
1981

2. Polish Jewry: Open or Closed?

Author

Saperstein, Marc

Subjects
*JEWISH literature, *NONFICTION
Abstract

Reviews the book 'Petihut vehistaggerut: Hayetsirah haruhanit hasifrutit bePolin uv'artsot Ashkenaz beshalhei hame'ah hashesh 'esreh (Openness and Insularity: Late Sixteenth-Century Jewish Literature in Poland and Ashkenaz),' by Jacob Elbaum.

Published
1991

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