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Moses Hoffmann: Rabbinical Opinion on the Eligibility of Women for Office in the Community, Wrocław, May 24, 1923 [copy]
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Moses Hoffmann
Institute for the History of the German Jews
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This rabbinical opinion by Rabbi Moses Jehuda Hoffmann on the question
of women’s right to vote was written in May 1923 at the request of
Hamburg’s German-Israelite Synagogue
Association [Deutsch-Israelitischer Synagogenverband]. Rabbinical
opinions are written in order to decide arguments regarding matters of
religious law. Their structure is based on a series of arguments, and
in their reasoning they discuss the process of deduction. The textual
basis this process requires consists of the Torah, the Talmud, and
commentary written by recognized Jewish authorities. Statements taken
from the Torah naturally carry the most authenticity and authority.
Hoffmann’s opinion applied this method by referring to Moses
Maimonides.
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