Women and Jewish Marriage Negotiations in Early Modern Italy
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Clandestine Marriages
Donation Mortis Causa
early modern gender roles
Early Rabbinic Tradition
Engagement Negotiations
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Husband's Assets
Husband's Heirs
Husband’s Assets
Husband’s Heirs
inheritance disputes Italy
Italian Rabbis
Jewish legal history
Jewish marital conflict case studies
Late Husband's Family
Late Husband’s Family
Levirate Connection
Levirate Union
Married Woman
Mazal Tov
Pre-marital Intercourse
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai
rabbinic family law
religious minority women
Rosa's Family
Rosa’s Family
Sephardic diaspora studies
Shalom Bayit
Shulhan Arukh
Solomon Ibn Adret
Waiting Period
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Young Man
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- ISBN 9780367893095
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book examines the role of women in Jewish family negotiations, using the setting of Italy from the end of the Renaissance to the Baroque. In ghettos at night and under the scrutiny of inquisitions, Jews flourished. Life and learning were enriched by Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, the Ottoman Empire, transalpine Europe, west and east, and Catholic neighbors. Rabbinic discourse represented conflicting customs in family formation and dissolution, especially at moments of crisis for women: forced betrothal; physical, mental and financial abuse; polygamy, and abandonment. In this book, case studies illustrate the ambiguity, drama, and danger to which women were exposed, as well as opportunities to make their voices heard and to extricate themselves from situations by forcing a divorce, collecting or seizing assets, and going to Catholic notaries to bequeath their assets outside traditional inheritance, often to other women. Despite intrusion by rabbis, their ability for coercion was limited, and their threats of punishments reflected the rhetoric of weakness rather than realistic options for implementation. The focus of this text is not what the law says, but rather how it enabled individual Jews, especially women, to speak and to act.
Howard Tzvi Adelman is Director of the Jewish Studies Program and Associate Professor of History at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
