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Lot #    19836
Auction End Date    1/8/2008 1:14:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Die altisraelitische Levirat
Author    [Signed Copy] Dr. Jacob Marcus Mittelmann
City    Leiden
Publisher    Albert Teicher Buchdruckerei
Publication Date    1934
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. xi, 50 p. 231:157 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in later wrappers. An autographed copy.
          
Paragraph 1    Full title: Der altisraelitische Levirat : eine rechtshistorische Studie /
A work on Levirate marriage by Dr. Jacob Marcus Mittelmann, which was done for the author's doctorate at the University of Leipzig.
          
Detailed
Description		    Levirate marriage (Heb. yibbum) is the marriage between a widow whose husband died without offspring (the yevamah) and the brother of the deceased (the yavam or levir), as prescribed in Deuteronomy 25:5–6: If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger [the last words according to AV translation, which is correct]; her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her. And it shall be, that the firstborn that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel. When the levir does not marry the yevamah, the ceremony of Halizah takes place, whereby the woman becomes released from the levirate tie (zikkat ha-yibbum) and free to marry someone else: If the man like not to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say: 'My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother unto me.' Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him; and if he stand, and say: 'I like not to take her'; then shall his brother's wife draw nigh unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say: 'So shall it be done unto the man that doth not build up his brother's house.' And his name shall be called in Israel 'The house of him that had his shoe loosed'" (Deut. 25:7–10).
          
Reference
Description		    Source: EJ
        
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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Subject
Halacha:    Checked
Other:    Women
  
Characteristic
First Editions:    Checked
Language:    German
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica