Taylor & Francis India: Jewish Law

By Kim Treiger-Bar-Am

This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone. It explores how Kantian philosophy and Jewish thought instead give rise to a concept of positive freedom. At heart, freedom is inextricably linked to the obligation to respect the autonomy and dignity…

Hardback – 2019-06-10 
Routledge

Edited by Silvio Ferrari, Bottoni Rossella

Much has been written on specific religious legal systems, yet substantial comparative studies that strive to compare systems, identifying their analogies and differences have been relatively few.This absence undermines the capacity to understand religions and becomes particularly serious when the…

Hardback – 2019-04-15 
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Routledge International Handbooks

By The Institute of Jewish Law, Boston University of Law

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…

Paperback – 2016-05-26
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Jewish Law Annual

Edited by Berachyahu Lifshitz

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…

Paperback – 2016-05-20
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Jewish Law Annual

Edited by Benjamin Porat

Volume 21 of The Jewish Law Annual adds to the growing list of articles on Jewish law that have been published in volumes 1- 20 of this series, providing English-speaking readers with scholarly articles presenting jurisprudential, historical, textual and comparative analysis of issues in…

Hardback – 2015-12-17
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Jewish Law Annual

Edited by Berachyahu Lifshitz

Volume 20 of The Jewish Law Annual features six detailed studies. The first three articles consider questions which fall under the rubric of halakhic methodology. The final three articles address substantive questions regarding privacy, cohabitation and medical triage. All three ‘methodological’…

Hardback – 2013-09-20
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Jewish Law Annual

Edited by Nadirsyah Hosen, Richard Mohr

With religion at centre stage in conflicts worldwide, and in social, ethical and geo-political debates, this book takes a timely look at relations between law and religion. To what extent can religion play a role in secular legal systems? How do peoples of various faiths live successfully by both…

Paperback – 2013-04-12
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Edited by Hanina Ben-Menahem, Arye Edrei, Neil S. Hecht

This book opens windows onto various aspects of Jewish legal culture. Rather than taking a structural approach, and attempting to circumscribe and define ‘every’ element of Jewish law, Windows onto Jewish Legal Culture takes a dynamic and holistic approach, describing diverse manifestations of…

Hardback – 2012-03-22
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Edited by Hanina Ben-Menahem, Arye Edrei, Neil S. Hecht

This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood. Each chapter is a self-contained journey, as it were, into a feature of the Jewish legal landscape. In other words, rather than taking a…

Hardback – 2012-03-19
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Edited by Hanina Ben-Menahem, Arye Edrei, Neil S. Hecht

This book opens windows onto Jewish legal culture, by offering fourteen exploratory essays, each of which focuses on an aspect of Jewish law, broadly understood. Each chapter is a self-contained journey, as it were, into a feature of the Jewish legal landscape. In other words, rather than taking a…

Hardback – 2012-03-19
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By Berachyahu Lifshitz, Hanina Ben-Menahem

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…

Hardback – 2011-11-30
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Jewish Law Annual

Edited by Hanina Ben-Menahem, Neil Hecht, Shai Wosner

Controversy is the main instrument by which Judaism develops and shapes its philosophy, theology and law. The rabbinical literature speaks with many voices, debating virtually every subject, and failing to reach a consensus on many. However, this willingness to condone controversy is accompanied by…

Hardback – 2005-09-01
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