Zutot 2001

by Berger, Shlomo; Brocke, Michael; Zwiep, Irene

• ISBN13: 9781402007026
• ISBN10: 1402007027
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

The yearbook aims to fill a gap that has become more and more conspicuous among the wealth of scholarly periodicals in the field of Jewish Studies. Whereas existing journals provide space to medium - and large sized articles, they neglect the small but poignant contributions, which may be as important as the extended, detailed study. The yearbook serves as a platform for small but incisive contributions, and provides them with distinct context. The substance of these contributions is derived from larger perspectives and though not always presented in an exhaustive way, will have an impact on contemporary discussions. The yearbook covers Jewish Culture in its broadest sense, i.e. encompassing various academic disciplines - literature, languages and linguistics, philosophy, art, sociology, politics and history - and reflects binary oppositions such as religious and secular, high and low, written and oral, male and female culture.

Table of Contents

Bible

A Note on the Root ZQN in the Hebrew Bible

Sacred Spaces in the Book of Daniel

Greek and Roman World

Contextualising Greek Chronicles

Cleopatra the Physician

Were the Rabbis Troubled by Witches?

Maria Alchemista, the First Female Jewish Author

A Gold Votive Medallion in the Jewish Museum, London

PIYYUT. Hearing and Understanding Piyyut in the Liturgy of the Synagogue

Intertextual Polyphony: Scriptural Presence(s) in a Piyyutim Cycle by Yoseph Ibn Abitur

'Rashi' and Early Ashkenazi Piyyut

Isaac ha-Gorni and the Troubadour Persona

The captions 'fi wazn' and 'fi lahn' in Strophic Poetry

Religious Polemics in a Philosophical Encyclopedia: Judah ha?Cohen on 'The Chosen People'

Athens in Jerusalem

On the Definition of Jewish Philosophy

Booklore

Some Remarks on the Date and Original Price of a Rare Iberian Hebrew Incunable

On an Unknown Appellation of Jerusalem from the Ottoman Period

History

Passion at the Periphery: The Contexts of a Clandestine Converso Conjunction

A Hebrew type-setter in Amsterdam in the first half of the eighteenth century

Bridging the Gaps - Reflections on the Trial of a Court Jew and a Modern Concept of Jewish History in Germany

Viewing the Jewish Masses: Easing and Interpreting Entry to the New World

Yiddish

The pronunciation of 'Argentinean Standard Yiddish'

The Manuscript Versions of Isaac Euchel's 'Reb Henokh oder vos tut me damit'

Some Notes on Hebraisms in the Yiddish 'Megalle Temirin'

Haskalah and Hassidim

Hassidim, Mitnaggeddim and the State in M.N. Lefins 'Essai d'un Plan de R+¼forme'

Fact or Fiction? A Social Sciences Dissertation

Contemporary Culture

Paul de Man's 'Wartime Journalism' and the Critics

Does Germany Follow a 'Special Path'? The Image of German History in the New Israeli Textbooks (1990-2000)

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