60 Walter Jacob

77. In the eighteenth century Moses Sofer tried to keep the financial issues of ketubot outside the range of the king’s law by stating that, after all, they were intended for women only and so of no significance.( Hatam Sofer , commentary to Even Haezer 126).

78. Mishneh Torah, Hil. Gezelah 5.14; Solomon b. Adret , Responsa, 5.198.

79.Solomon Ibn Adret , Responsa 6.254; Asher ben Yehiel , Responsa 86.9; Solomon ben Simon of Duran, Responsa 212; etc.

80. Shulhan Arukh, Hoshen Mishpat 369.

81. Finkelstein, pp. 357 f.

82. Isserles , Responsa, 123; also Hatam Sofer. 92.. Finkelstein, p. 154.

84. Baron, pp. 323 ff.

85. Mishneh Torah, Hil. Zekhiya umatanah 1.15; Hil. Gezelah 5.12-18; Solomon ibn Adret , Torat Habayit 111

86. Hatam Sofer , Even Haezer 43; Joseph Saul Nathanson , Shoel Emeshiv, etc 87. Jair Hayyim Bachrach, Havat Yair, 176.

88. Jacob Katz , Tradition and Crisis, New York , 1993.

89. J. R. Marcus, The Jew in the Medieval World, Cincinnati , 1938, p. 96.

90. Moses Mendelssohn , Jerusalem and Other Jewish Writings, New York , 1969, pp. 102 ff.

91. Abraham C. Freiman, Seder Kiduishin Venisuin, Jerusalem , 1964, pp. 312 f.

92. Tama, also Shulhan Arukh, Even Haezer 137, 143

93. Ibid. also Jacob Reischer , Shevut Yaakov, Orah Hayyim 1.20.