Boundaries of loyalty : testimony against fellow Jews in non-Jewish courts /

Talmudic legislation prescribed penalty for a Jew to testify in a non-Jewish court, against a fellow Jew, to benefit a gentile - for breach of a duty of loyalty to a fellow Jew. Through close textual analysis, Saul Berman explores how Jewish jurists responded when this virtue of loyalty conflicted w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berman, Saul J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Temas:
Informers (Jewish law)
Witnesses (Jewish law)
Conflict of laws (Jewish law)
Criminal jurisdiction.
Legal polycentricity.
Témoins (Droit juif)
Droit international privé (Droit juif)
Droit pénal international.
Pluralisme juridique.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The use of non-Jewish courts : the Tannaitic period
  • Legislative constraint on testimony : the Amoraic period
  • Rejected rationales of testimonial restriction : the Gaonic period into the period of the Rishonim
  • Creation of a duty to testify against fellow Jews in non-Jewish courts in the period of the Rishonim : i.e. under what circumstances could testimony in an honest non-Jewish court be required by Jewish law (and testimony then be permissible even in corrupt non-Jewish courts)?
  • The tension between responsa and codification : not every good ruling makes a good rule Maharam Mintz, Rabbi Joseph Caro and Rabbi Moshe Isserlis
  • Further expansion of the duty to testify against fellow Jews in non-Jewish courts in the period of the Acharonim : R. Yaacov Emden
  • Contemporary attempts to revert to the original law of Rava : expanding the boundaries of loyalty
  • Conclusion : reflections on loyalty and law.

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