Pinchas Roth
Biographic Data
| ID | 3958299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pinchas Roth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pinchas |
| FAMILY NAME | Roth |
| SIGNATURE | ROTH P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3875-4735 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
La médiation dans l'Orléans médiéval
Cet article analyse le Responsum 241 du rabbin Salomon ben Isaac de Troyes (Rachi, mort en 1105). Le responsum décrit un litige juridique entre deux juifs à Orléans au XIe siècle. Les revendications et les contre-revendications des parties en litige mettent en lumière leurs pratiques commerciales et leurs formes de médiation. Cette affaire met également en évidence les liens importants qui unissaient les communautés juives d'Orléans et de Paris a…
“It Requires Privacy”
Analysis of a legal ruling by Yehiel of Paris (d. ca. 1260) in a rental dispute between two Jewish men sheds light on aspects of Jewish life in a major medieval European city. Two Jews rented an apartment from a Christian owner, and a dispute arose when one of the tenants left mid-term and his replacement, also a Jewish man, tried to renew the lease directly with the landlord. The original tenant claimed the exclusive right to renew the lease and…
Authors, Collators, and Forgers
This article explores the works of four Jewish intellectuals who lived in or near Avignon at the end of the fourteenth century: Isaac de Lattes, Joseph Kimḥi, Eliezer Crescas, and Jacob Salomon. Each of these authors wrote a different type of rabbinic book, shedding light on shared themes and concerns that dominated their city. Their works express—sometimes explicitly, but often implicitly and through their very structure—deep-seated anxieties ab…
Words and seals
This article explores aspects of literacy and written culture in the Jewish community in England during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The Jews of medieval England lived in a multilingual world and created their own multilingual culture. They deployed their spoken language of French (or Anglo-Norman) and their written language of Hebrew with creativity and playfulness, along with knowledge of English and Aramaic. The legal culture of Norma…
Manuscript Fragments of Early Tosafot in Perpignan
Fragments of a Hebrew manuscript in thirteenth-century Sephardic script were recently discovered in the binding of a fourteenth-century notarial manual in Perpignan. These fragments are identified here as originating in a copy of Tosafot redacted by a disciple of Isaac ben Samuel of Dampierre. It is suggested that the redactor was Samson ben Abraham of Sens. This find is doubly significant—for the study of Tosafot, and for the intellectual histor…
Rouen - Radom - Darom
This paper discusses the use and confusion of two Hebrew words, rdom and drom, that denote geographical locations in a 13th-century poem and a late 12-century letter. My conclusion, in regard to these two specific texts, is that they refer to Rouen, and that the correct reading is Radom, as previously proposed by other scholars, but that the word was also meant to be read - at the same time, as a kind of wordplay - as Darom.
The Geonic Talmud
A Medieval Hebrew Adaptation of Two Crusading Texts
A Hebrew manuscript in the Parma Palatinate Library, produced in the fourteenth century, probably in Provence, contains adaptations from Latin/Romance texts, including two that originate in the Christian crusading tradition. These two sections consist mainly of historical and geographical data relating to the Levant. The Hebrew adaptations, although selective, are religiously neutral, reflecting the redactor’s keen interest in the history and geo…
My precious books and instruments’
The divorce case between David Bonjorn and Esther Caravita, which took place in Girona and Perpignan in 1337, is extraordinarily well documented. Hebrew and Latin documents shed light on the stages of the controversy, the wide range of personalities involved in the case and, most notably, the strategies mobilised by the two sides in their attempt to uphold or invalidate the divorce. The ways in which personal strengths and weaknesses were utilise…
Meir ben Simeon ha-Meʿili on Protracted Pregnancy
Since antiquity, many people have believed that the length of human gestation is variable, ranging from seven months to ten or even twelve months. The significance of this belief is not confined to the medical sphere, since it has important legal ramifications. If pregnancy could last for an extended period, a mother could claim that her offspring was legitimately conceived from her husband even if she had not had physical contact with her husban…
Asking questions
Posing a Halakhic query to a rabbi is often taken for granted, as the backdrop to a legal process that begins with the rabbi composing his responsum. At times, however, the question itself is the product of a calculated decision on the part of a layperson to become involved in the Halakhic process. Focusing on responsa from medieval Provence, this article claims that the tensions that existed within the Jewish community between rabbis and philoso…
Regional Boundaries and Medieval Halakhah
The medieval Jewish communities of Catalonia and Southern France lived in geographic proximity to each other. They were also quite similar culturally, and maintained ties with each other for centuries. However, the opinions of some historians notwithstanding, the two communities were not identical to each other and they perceived themselves as distinct entities. This article makes this point by focusing on the Halakhic responsa sent from Cataloni…
Legal Strategy and Legal Culture in Medieval Jewish Courts of Southern France
From the mid-thirteenth century onwards, the rabbinic courts of southern France (Provence and Languedoc) found themselves dealing with an increasing number of cases in which plaintiffs were using the court as leverage in a struggle that was taking place outside the court. This period also saw the first legal advocates appearing in Jewish courts. These two related phenomena point to a shift in Jewish legal culture, part of a move throughout thirte…
Words and seals
This article explores aspects of literacy and written culture in the Jewish community in England during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The Jews of medieval England lived in a multilingual world and created their own multilingual culture. They deployed their spoken language of French (or Anglo-Norman) and their written language of Hebrew with creativity and playfulness, along with knowledge of English and Aramaic. The legal culture of Norma…
My precious books and instruments’
The divorce case between David Bonjorn and Esther Caravita, which took place in Girona and Perpignan in 1337, is extraordinarily well documented. Hebrew and Latin documents shed light on the stages of the controversy, the wide range of personalities involved in the case and, most notably, the strategies mobilised by the two sides in their attempt to uphold or invalidate the divorce. The ways in which personal strengths and weaknesses were utilise…
Legal Strategy and Legal Culture in Medieval Jewish Courts of Southern France
From the mid-thirteenth century onwards, the rabbinic courts of southern France (Provence and Languedoc) found themselves dealing with an increasing number of cases in which plaintiffs were using the court as leverage in a struggle that was taking place outside the court. This period also saw the first legal advocates appearing in Jewish courts. These two related phenomena point to a shift in Jewish legal culture, part of a move throughout thirte…
Legal Strategy and Legal Culture in Medieval Jewish Courts of Southern France
From the mid-thirteenth century onwards, the rabbinic courts of southern France (Provence and Languedoc) found themselves dealing with an increasing number of cases in which plaintiffs were using the court as leverage in a struggle that was taking place outside the court. This period also saw the first legal advocates appearing in Jewish courts. These two related phenomena point to a shift in Jewish legal culture, part of a move throughout thirte…
Regional Boundaries and Medieval Halakhah
The medieval Jewish communities of Catalonia and Southern France lived in geographic proximity to each other. They were also quite similar culturally, and maintained ties with each other for centuries. However, the opinions of some historians notwithstanding, the two communities were not identical to each other and they perceived themselves as distinct entities. This article makes this point by focusing on the Halakhic responsa sent from Cataloni…
Meir ben Simeon ha-Meʿili on Protracted Pregnancy
Since antiquity, many people have believed that the length of human gestation is variable, ranging from seven months to ten or even twelve months. The significance of this belief is not confined to the medical sphere, since it has important legal ramifications. If pregnancy could last for an extended period, a mother could claim that her offspring was legitimately conceived from her husband even if she had not had physical contact with her husban…
Asking questions
Posing a Halakhic query to a rabbi is often taken for granted, as the backdrop to a legal process that begins with the rabbi composing his responsum. At times, however, the question itself is the product of a calculated decision on the part of a layperson to become involved in the Halakhic process. Focusing on responsa from medieval Provence, this article claims that the tensions that existed within the Jewish community between rabbis and philoso…
A Medieval Hebrew Adaptation of Two Crusading Texts
A Hebrew manuscript in the Parma Palatinate Library, produced in the fourteenth century, probably in Provence, contains adaptations from Latin/Romance texts, including two that originate in the Christian crusading tradition. These two sections consist mainly of historical and geographical data relating to the Levant. The Hebrew adaptations, although selective, are religiously neutral, reflecting the redactor’s keen interest in the history and geo…
My precious books and instruments’
The divorce case between David Bonjorn and Esther Caravita, which took place in Girona and Perpignan in 1337, is extraordinarily well documented. Hebrew and Latin documents shed light on the stages of the controversy, the wide range of personalities involved in the case and, most notably, the strategies mobilised by the two sides in their attempt to uphold or invalidate the divorce. The ways in which personal strengths and weaknesses were utilise…
Rouen - Radom - Darom
This paper discusses the use and confusion of two Hebrew words, rdom and drom, that denote geographical locations in a 13th-century poem and a late 12-century letter. My conclusion, in regard to these two specific texts, is that they refer to Rouen, and that the correct reading is Radom, as previously proposed by other scholars, but that the word was also meant to be read - at the same time, as a kind of wordplay - as Darom.
The Geonic Talmud
Manuscript Fragments of Early Tosafot in Perpignan
Fragments of a Hebrew manuscript in thirteenth-century Sephardic script were recently discovered in the binding of a fourteenth-century notarial manual in Perpignan. These fragments are identified here as originating in a copy of Tosafot redacted by a disciple of Isaac ben Samuel of Dampierre. It is suggested that the redactor was Samson ben Abraham of Sens. This find is doubly significant—for the study of Tosafot, and for the intellectual histor…
Words and seals
This article explores aspects of literacy and written culture in the Jewish community in England during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The Jews of medieval England lived in a multilingual world and created their own multilingual culture. They deployed their spoken language of French (or Anglo-Norman) and their written language of Hebrew with creativity and playfulness, along with knowledge of English and Aramaic. The legal culture of Norma…
Authors, Collators, and Forgers
This article explores the works of four Jewish intellectuals who lived in or near Avignon at the end of the fourteenth century: Isaac de Lattes, Joseph Kimḥi, Eliezer Crescas, and Jacob Salomon. Each of these authors wrote a different type of rabbinic book, shedding light on shared themes and concerns that dominated their city. Their works express—sometimes explicitly, but often implicitly and through their very structure—deep-seated anxieties ab…
“It Requires Privacy”
Analysis of a legal ruling by Yehiel of Paris (d. ca. 1260) in a rental dispute between two Jewish men sheds light on aspects of Jewish life in a major medieval European city. Two Jews rented an apartment from a Christian owner, and a dispute arose when one of the tenants left mid-term and his replacement, also a Jewish man, tried to renew the lease directly with the landlord. The original tenant claimed the exclusive right to renew the lease and…
La médiation dans l'Orléans médiéval
Cet article analyse le Responsum 241 du rabbin Salomon ben Isaac de Troyes (Rachi, mort en 1105). Le responsum décrit un litige juridique entre deux juifs à Orléans au XIe siècle. Les revendications et les contre-revendications des parties en litige mettent en lumière leurs pratiques commerciales et leurs formes de médiation. Cette affaire met également en évidence les liens importants qui unissaient les communautés juives d'Orléans et de Paris a…
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