Anthology of writings about Jewish law in the modern world

Jewish law has a history stretching from the early period to the modern State of Israel, encompassing the Talmud, Geonic and later codifications, the Spanish Go

The double codes of law composed by R. Joseph Karo during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries mark a watershed in the history of Jewish Halakhah

This is the first book to present a systematic and synthetic introduction to Jewish law.