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From One End of the Earth to the Other: The London Bet Din, 1805-1855, and the Jewish Convicts Transported to Australia
Jeremy I. Pfeffer
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Hardback. Recounts the history of the London Bet Din during the years as revealed by the "Pinkas" record and relates the stories of a group of Jewish convict transportees and their families. Num Pages: 355 pages, b/w illus & tables. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1MBF; 3JH; HBTB; HRJ; JFSR1; LAFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 175 x 26. Weight in Grams: 672.
The emancipation of the Jews of England was largely complete when George III came to the throne in 1760. Free to live how and where they wished, the Jews had been specifically exempted from the provisions of the 1753 Marriage Act which made Christian marriage the only legal option for all others. The effect of this exemption was to put the matrimonial causes of the Jews of England exclusively in the hands of their Rabbis and Dayanim (Jewish ecclesiastical judges) for the next one hundred years. No Bet Din (Jewish ecclesiastical court) anywhere in the world has left such a ... Read more
The emancipation of the Jews of England was largely complete when George III came to the throne in 1760. Free to live how and where they wished, the Jews had been specifically exempted from the provisions of the 1753 Marriage Act which made Christian marriage the only legal option for all others. The effect of this exemption was to put the matrimonial causes of the Jews of England exclusively in the hands of their Rabbis and Dayanim (Jewish ecclesiastical judges) for the next one hundred years. No Bet Din (Jewish ecclesiastical court) anywhere in the world has left such a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
355
Condition
New
Number of Pages
355
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845192938
SKU
V9781845192938
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About Jeremy I. Pfeffer
Jeremy I. Pfeffer teaches physics at the Rehovot campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A graduate of Imperial College in London and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he has taught science in high schools in England and Israel., and has written and published textbooks on Modern Physics in both English and Hebrew.. The present book is the result of ... Read more
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