« Consulting and adjudicating: Responsa in Muslim and Jewish legal cultures »,
organized by Baudouin Dupret and Evelyne Oliel-Grausz
at the Centre de Recherche Français à Jérusalem (CRFJ)
Thursday, March 12, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Speaker
Dr. Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg
« Cases, codes and concrete situations: Rabbinic responsa as legal writing between rules and reality – an example from 16th-century Poland »
The session, held in English, will be chaired by
Evelyne Oliel-Grausz (University Paris-Cité/CRFJ)
Dr. Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg is Senior Lecturer, Buchman Law Faculty, Tel Aviv University.
A scholar of Jewish law (halakha) from the perspective of intellectual and cultural history, she studies how developments in knowledge organization and changes in the forms of disseminating and ordering legal information shape our interactions with Jewish law. Her PhD is from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Berkovitz Fellow at NYU Law. Prior to joining Tel Aviv University’s law faculty, Tamara was an assistant professor at NYU’s Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies.
Among her recent publications:
-“Questions of Law: The Significance of Rabbinic Responsa for Jewish Law,” in Zev Eleff, Chaim Saiman, and Roberta Kwall, eds., Oxford Handbook of Jewish Law (Oxford University Press) [published online, March 2024];
-“Responsa and the Rabbinic Republic of Letters,” in Yonatan Brafman and Suzanne Stone, eds., New Directions in Jewish Law (De Gruyter, 2024);
-“Radical Practicality: On Halakhic Codification and History,” Suzanne Stone Festschrift in Diné Israel 38 (2024), *189-*214.
A light lunch will be served at the end of the seminar.
We would be grateful if you could kindly confirm your attendance by March 5.
Yours sincerely,
The CRFJ Team
