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Samuel Morell. Precedent and Judicial Discretion: The Case of Joseph ibn Lev. South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 26. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1991. xii, 213 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2009

Ephraim Kanarfogel
Ephraim Kanarfogel
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Stern College for Women, New York, N.Y.
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AJS Review , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , April 1995 , pp. 213 - 216
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Copyright © Association for Jewish Studies 1995

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1. Ibn Lev endorsed a lenient ruling of Isserlein (p. 158) in a case that involved the identification of a corpse which, in an 'agunah situation, is to be expected in any event. Note also Ibn Lev's reliance on Mahariq in cases of 'agunot, described by Morell, in his article “Profile of a Jurist: Joseph Ibn Lev's Rulings Regarding Agunot,” The Jewish Law Annual 9 (1990): 177, 180, 182.Google Scholar

2. “The Constitutional Limits of Communal Government in Rabbinic Law,” Jewish Social Studies 33 (1971): 113–18.

3. Morell did undertake this type of comparative study in his article cited in n. 1.