Jewish Conversion in the Riots of 1391: The Legal Justification

This study presents the halakhic rulings that preceded the riots of 1391 in Spain and provided the moral infrastructure that allowed the conversion to Catholicism of Rabbi Isaac ben Sheshet Perfet (known by the acronym Rivash) and many other Jews. Rivash was willing broadly to define duress, which e...

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Main Author: Yahalom, Shalem (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: The review of rabbinic Judaism
Year: 2022, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 236-255
Further subjects:B martyrdom in Judaism
B Shlomo ben Avraham ibn Aderet
B Isaac ben Sheshet Perfet
B Ferrant Martínez
B Forced Conversion
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