Avishalom Westreich
Biographic Data
| ID | 4229920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avishalom Westreich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avishalom |
| FAMILY NAME | Westreich |
| SIGNATURE | WESTREICH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Law and Business |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6843-4329 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Accommodating Religious Law With a Civil Legal System: Lessons From the Jewish Law Experience in Financial Family Matters
The discussion of legal pluralism focuses on the coexistence of several legal systems, mainly religious and civil ones. But what happens when a process of assimilation—whether imposed or voluntary—characterizes the relationships between the systems? This article analyzes the fascinating process of assimilation of civil principles into religious law in the context of Jewish law and Israeli civil family law. Assimilation, as the article shows, is n…
The “Gatekeepers” of Jewish Family Law: Marriage Annulment as a Test Case
Jewish law is normally characterized by a pluralist discourse and, even when controversies are acrimonious, the merits of competitive arguments are recognized and receive some legitimacy. By contrast, Jewish family law, especially in the case of marriage annulment, is characterized quite differently, patently diverging from the pluralist hermeneutic discourse normally characterizing Jewish law. This divergence is the subject of this article. From…
Divorce on demand: The history, dogmatics, and hermeneutics of the wife's right to divorce in Jewish law
This paper has two aims: historical and dogmatic. Historical, by studying two actual halakhic traditions in which divorce was issued at the wife's demand, with an analysis of the interaction between them: the Palestinian divorce clause, according to Cairo Genizah ketubbot (marriage documents), and the Geonic compulsion of a get (a writ of divorce) in the case of the rebellious wife ( moredet ). Dogmatic, by examining the status of three halakhic …
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Divorce on demand: The history, dogmatics, and hermeneutics of the wife's right to divorce in Jewish law
This paper has two aims: historical and dogmatic. Historical, by studying two actual halakhic traditions in which divorce was issued at the wife's demand, with an analysis of the interaction between them: the Palestinian divorce clause, according to Cairo Genizah ketubbot (marriage documents), and the Geonic compulsion of a get (a writ of divorce) in the case of the rebellious wife ( moredet ). Dogmatic, by examining the status of three halakhic …
The “Gatekeepers” of Jewish Family Law: Marriage Annulment as a Test Case
Jewish law is normally characterized by a pluralist discourse and, even when controversies are acrimonious, the merits of competitive arguments are recognized and receive some legitimacy. By contrast, Jewish family law, especially in the case of marriage annulment, is characterized quite differently, patently diverging from the pluralist hermeneutic discourse normally characterizing Jewish law. This divergence is the subject of this article. From…
Accommodating Religious Law With a Civil Legal System: Lessons From the Jewish Law Experience in Financial Family Matters
The discussion of legal pluralism focuses on the coexistence of several legal systems, mainly religious and civil ones. But what happens when a process of assimilation—whether imposed or voluntary—characterizes the relationships between the systems? This article analyzes the fascinating process of assimilation of civil principles into religious law in the context of Jewish law and Israeli civil family law. Assimilation, as the article shows, is n…
Islamic Studies and History (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Family law (2 works) · Marriage and Sexual Relationships (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Annulment (1 works)