[Correspondence regarding the Cleveland Get Affair by Isidor Kalisch and others]
| Title: | [Correspondence regarding the Cleveland Get Affair by Isidor Kalisch and others]. |
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| Name(s): | Kalisch, Isidor, 1816-1886 | |
| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Manuscripts. | |
| Issuance: | monographic | |
| Date Created: |
1848-1853 1848 |
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| Extent: | 14 items (26 leaves) ; 28 x 21.5 cm. (varies) + Several leaves. | |
| Abstract/Description: | Correspondence regarding the Cleveland Get Affair (the get arranged by the below-named Joseph Levy), some published by I. Leeser in the Occident, mostly from I. Kalisch, Cleveland, but including contributions of writers from New York to Columbia, S. C., and from dayanim in London and Krotoschin. | |
| Table of Contents: | 1. [Caption title] "Casuistical decision of a divorce case by rabbi Isidor Kalisch. 1 leaf. | |
| Note(s): |
Ms. documents. Accompanying materials: Transcriptions, translations, and related publications including some of the above items (mostly photocopies). Digitization funded by The National Library of Israel. A Jewish man wanted R. Isidor Kalisch to convert a gentile woman whom he wanted to marry, which Kalisch did, against his better judgment; immediately after they married, the man decided he wanted a divorce, and Kalisch would have nothing to do with it. Joseph Levy, who had received semikhah in Europe, convened a bet din and granted the divorce. Kalisch raised a furor, which made it into the American press and even reached Europe (A. Karp, oral communication) German, English, Yiddish and Hebrew. The Abraham J. and Deborah B. Collection of American Judaica. |
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| Subject(s): |
Kalisch, Isidor, 1816-1886 -- Correspondence Leeser, Isaac, 1806-1868 Divorce -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Case studies Frankfurt am Main (Germany) -- History -- Sources United States |
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| Library Classification: | MS 10475 | |
| Library Classification: | SHF ?? | |
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