Elissa Lisbonne
Elissa Lisbonne, member of a Jewish family prominent in French political affairs, was the son of a rabbi in the Comtat Venaissin, one of the Papal States in southeastern France. This region around Avignon became a refuge for French Jews before they were emancipated during the French Revolution. Subsequent emigration led to the cultural decline of the Comtadin communities, though Lisbonne’s periodical La loi divine stood out as an exceptional representative of literary activity in Avignon in the 1840s. His essay on the emancipation of women in Hebrew worship supported total equality of Jewish women in the rites of the synagogue.
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On the Emancipation of Women in Jewish Worship
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Rabbinic Scholarship, 1750–1880
Despite the challenges of the early modern period, rabbinic scholarship flourished in Central and Eastern Europe in the latter half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century.