Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45658
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Rashi , , Rabbinic Scholar and Sarah Ifft Decker
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  • Title: Rabbi Solomon Yitzhaki (Rashi), Shut ha-Rashi, #173: Levirate Marriage and Conversion
  • Source: Jewish Women in the Medieval World: 500-1500 CE. Sarah Ifft Decker.  Edited by Sarah Ifft Decker, translator of Document 24.  Routledge, 2022.  Pages 139 - 140.
  • Description: Rashi responds to a case of a man who has converted to another religion and has married the widow of his brother in a levirate marriage.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Conversion, Religious Jews Levirate Marriage
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 11
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  • Author's Affiliation: Rhodes College
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  • Year of Publication: 2022.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9780367612726 (print); 9781003104964 (online)