@article{Visi2010,
  author    = {Visi, Tam{\´a}s},
  title     = {Halakha and Microhistory},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  number    = {16},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-43454},
  pages     = {20 -- 49},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {Shifra was a Jewish businesswoman in Moravia in the fifteenth-century. In 1452 due to financial fraud she was arrested in Brno. Her life was saved by some members of the local Jewish community, who renounced their financial claims against their Christian neighbours in the exchange of Shifra's life. However, one member of the community consented to the agreement only on condition that the other members would pay his losses. The case was extensively discussed in the correspondence of contemporary rabbis, among them Israel Bruna and Israel Isserlein. Their letters about the Shifra-affair reveal some important characteristics of the rabbinic authority in the late medieval Ashkenaz.},
  language  = {en}
}