"I Too Speak the Words of God": A Jewish Learned Woman Faces an Early Modern Rabbinic Court

This essay delves into a collection of previously overlooked seventeenth-century Hebrew letters from Italy, exchanged between Rica (Rivkah) Clava (Katzigin), a Jewish woman, and her husband, Shlomo Yohanan, addressed to Rabbi Yosef Ravenna of Alessandria. These letters document a financial dispute b...

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Main Author: Goren, Ahuvia (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2025
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2025, Volume: 115, Issue: 2, Pages: 233-266
Further subjects:B learned women
B early modern Italy
B Jewish women
B Misogyny
B Querelle des femmes
B Rhetoric
B Responsa
B Italian Jewry
B Jewish Law
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