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- 12 –Publications of the Agunah Research UnitThe publication programme work of the Agunah Research Unit of the University of Manchester (2004-2009,http://manchesterjewishstudies.squarespace.com/agunah-research-unit/) is now complete.The 24 Working Papers of the Unit, including the Draft Final Report, Launch Lecture and Summary Report,remain available on the Unit’s web site and are downloadable fromhttp://manchesterjewishstudies.squarespace.com/publications/Six print volumes, including one in Hebrew, have now been published, and will be displayed at the Tuesdayevening ARU Reception at the conference. They comprise the final collective report, drafted by BernardJackson in consultation with the other four Unit members, an individual volume by each of these Unitmembers and a Hebrew version of the Summary report (previously available only in English).1. Bernard S. Jackson, Agunah: The Manchester Analysis, Pp. x + 299, hardback, ISBN9781906731113, £45.002. Rabbi Dr. Yehudah Abel, Confronting 'Iggun, Pp. vii + 116, hardback, ISBN 9781906731120,£29.503. Shoshana Knol, Agunah and Ideology, Pp. x + 186, hardback, ISBN 9781906731137, £35.004. Avishalom Westreich, Talmud-Based Solutions to the Problem of the Agunah, Pp. x + 134,hardback, ISBN 978-1-906731-20-5, £29.955. Nechama Hadari, The Kosher Get: A Halakhic Story of Divorce, Pp. vi + 149, hardback, ISBN978-1-906731-19-9, £35.006. Agunah Research Unit, (rqxmh Mwkys) r+s'cnm Nwy( : h nwg(, with hasqamot from R. Shear-Yashuv Cohen and R. Shlomo Daichovsky, Pp. viii + 95 (hardback: ISBN 978-1-906731-22-9,£20.00; paperback: ISBN 978-1-906731-21-2, £15.00)For further details, see the pages linked to http://www.legaltheory.demon.co.uk/ARU.htm), withdownloadable extracts from each of the books.The six volume set is priced at £150 (£130 without the Hebrew Summary volume). Paid up-members of TheJewish Law Association may purchase individual volumes at 25% discountThese prices include an estimate of overseas postage, and will vary slightly according to your location. Pleasesend your order in an e-mail to dcp@legaltheory.demon.co.uk. You will then receive an accurate invoice andpayment instructions via Paypal, and you can pay either from your Paypal account (if you have one) or bynormal credit card (on the secure Paypal site). The order will be forwarded to the UK printer as soon asPaypal confirms your payment. The book(s) will be dispatched from the printer within 10 working days. Addat least one week for delivery outside the UK.Deborah Charles Publications173 Mather Avenue, Liverpool L18 6JZ, UKwww.deborahcharles.co.uk
- 13 –SHORT BIOGRAPHIES AND ABSTRACTSAriel AbelAriel Abel (University of London) – Certainty in Halacha: the relationship between reality and halachic logic (Session 11C)What happens when Halachic logic is challenged by non-Halachic reality? Does Halacha give way to other sources of data? Will itdefer to universally acknowledged concepts? The lecture will take as its point of departure the Talmud’s statement that the fourcubits of Halacha are all that matter to G-d and then investigate what this can mean. We will then explore the concept of yedia’hberurah – clear and certain knowledge in the case of permitting commercially produced milk to the observer of kashrut. We willthen go on to examine halachic aspects of the International Date Line, and the impact of drawing it in different places upon Jewsobservant of mitzvot. Is Shabbat therefore determined by a halachic calculation, or a decision made by a (secular) government?And finally, what is the status of a practice dependent on a scientific observation by the Talmudic Sages – such as Bircat HaHamah(blessing over the Sun at intervals of 26 years) and should we revisit the concept of KaZeh R’eh WeQadesh – or indeed adoptmodern scientific calculations - to achieve accuracy in observance of the Hebrew Calendar? A handout to accompany the lecturewith the relevant texts in both the original Hebrew and full translation will be provided to participants.Rabbi Ariel Abel has served as rabbi of three important Orthodox Jewish communities over a thirteen year period. He haslectured at Oxford, Hope and Liverpool universities in Judaism and Ethics and was Director of the Montefiore CollegeSemicha Programme in London. Today Rabbi Abel is an independent Business and Education Consultant. Among hisclients are the Global Travel Movement, Blackburn Cathedral and Blackburn College. He is a student of law on theUniversity of London External LLB programme, and already holds a BA Hons in Semitics and Languages and a Masters(MSc) in Education from leading universities. Phillip Ackerman-LiebermanPhillip Ackerman-Lieberman (Vanderbilt University) – “Arabic” (Muslim) Documents in the Jewish Courts of Medieval Egypt(Session 14A)The documents of the Cairo Geniza are an invaluable source for the study of legal history in medieval Egypt. The Geniza containsa plethora of court records, which occasionally allude to “Arabic documents” admitted into the Jewish court. What role did thesedocuments play in the decisions of the Jewish court? This paper will survey the court records of the Geniza in order to explore therelationship between Jewish and Islamic courts in medieval Egypt, revealing the court to have been a focal point of intercommunalrelations in the 10th-13th centuries. As the long-understood legal tolerance of the Fatimid period gave way to more restrictivepolicies in the late 12th century, Jewish courts which long recognized documents composed in Muslim courts and which evencomposed their own documents in a manner that might have allowed them to be read into evidence in Muslim courts will be seenas attempting to limit dhimmi use of Muslim courts and to arrogate to themselves alone the power to adjudicate matters of interestto the Jewish community. The paper will bring evidence of forum shopping between Muslim and dhimmi courts, and it will tracethe historical trajectory of intercommunal legal culture in medieval Egypt.Phil Lieberman is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Law, and affiliated Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies andHistory, at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses on the economic, social, and legal history of the Jews of themedieval Islamic world. A section editor of the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (Brill, 2010), his own bookThe Business of Identity is forthcoming in 2013 from Stanford University Press.
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