What Does a Kohen Have to Do with the Protocols of the Ashkenazic Community of Amsterdam? A Conflict between Community Sanctity and the Righteousness of the Ancients

This article deals with an incident in the Ashkenazic community of Amsterdam in 1772 that was documented in the protocols of the community. A member of the congregation confessed to the rabbi after the death of her husband, a kohen, that she was in fact a convert. The rabbi informed her son that as...

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Main Author: Yedidya, Asaf (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Zutot
Year: 2023, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 48-58
Further subjects:B Ashkenazic community of Amsterdam
B Saul Löwenstam
B kohen
B Protocolbuch
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