Maʻaśeh rav : maḥaloḳet ha-geṭ be-London ... 463 / m.h. ṿe-r. R. Helishoi.
מעשה רב : מחלוקת הגט בלונדון ... תס״ג מהור״ר יוחנן מהעלישויא.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yoḥanan, me-Helishoi, active 18th century.

Contributor:

Reich Rare Judaica Facsimile Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Library at the Katz Center Special Collections (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Divorce (Jewish law).

Jews--England--History.

Jews.

England.

History.

Excommunication (Jewish law).

Responsa--1600-1800.

Responsa.

Feibesh, Uri, 1670-1756.

Feibesh, Uri.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

13, that is, 26 pages, 46 unnumbered pages : 1 portrait ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, N.Y. : Renaissance Hebraica, [1996?]

Contents:

Maʻaśeh rav / Johanan ben Isaac, of Holleschau

Rabbi Zevi Ashkenazi and his family in London / David Kaufman

The Hambro' Secession / [Cecil Roth]

The Herem of Rabenu Tam in Queen Anne's London / G.W. Busse.

Notes:

Regarding the controversial excommunication of Mordecai Hamburger by R. Uri Faibesh in London.

Spine title.

Although reprint publisher gives date of original as 463 [1702 or 1703], this appears to be erroneous, since the present book was written in response to Feibush's Urim ṿe-Tumim, which came out in 1706. Moreover, place of publication may have been Amsterdam, rather than London. (See Roth's History of the Great Synagogue.).

Includes 1 port. of Aaron Hart (a.k.a., Uri Feibesh, the first chief rabbi of England), poorly reproduced.

Includes English articles commenting on Maʻaśeh rav. The first two are reprints from Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England: one by G.W. Busse (reproduced twice here) from v. 21 (1968), p. 138-47, another by David Kaufmann from v.3 (1899) p. 105ff. A third article (reproduced twice) is the fourth chapter of Cecil Roth's book The Great Synagogue London, entitled "The Hambro' Secession."

Local Notes:

Purchased thanks to the generous support of Philip Lindy.

OCLC:

708721374