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Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Edited by Giuseppe Veltri (Leopold-Zunz-Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Halle-Wittenberg)
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Giuseppe Veltri
Editorial Board
Gad Freudenthal, Alessandro Guetta, Hanna Liss, Ronit Meroz, Reimund Leicht, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, David Ruderman, and Diana Matut.
Advisory Board
Bruno Chiesa (University of Turin), Rachel Elior (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Anthony Grafton (Princeton University), Eleazar Gutwirth (Tel Aviv University), Catherine Hezser (SOAS, London), Moshe Idel (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Paul Mendes-Flohr (University of Chicago/Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Caterina Rigo (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Stefan Schreiner (University of Tübingen), Peter Schäfer (Princeton University), Adam Shear (University of Pittsburgh), Miriam Silvera (University of Tor Vergata Rome), Israel Yuval (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Jonathan Webber (University of Birmingham)
Giuseppe Veltri
Editorial Board
Gad Freudenthal, Alessandro Guetta, Hanna Liss, Ronit Meroz, Reimund Leicht, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, David Ruderman, and Diana Matut.
Advisory Board
Bruno Chiesa (University of Turin), Rachel Elior (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Anthony Grafton (Princeton University), Eleazar Gutwirth (Tel Aviv University), Catherine Hezser (SOAS, London), Moshe Idel (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Paul Mendes-Flohr (University of Chicago/Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Caterina Rigo (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Stefan Schreiner (University of Tübingen), Peter Schäfer (Princeton University), Adam Shear (University of Pittsburgh), Miriam Silvera (University of Tor Vergata Rome), Israel Yuval (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Jonathan Webber (University of Birmingham)
€101.00$140.00
Shlomo Berger, University of Amsterdam
Producing Redemption in Amsterdam offers an analysis of Yiddish early modern paratexts and subsequently a history of Yiddish printed books.
€121.00$166.00
Edited by Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto
Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This volume is a record of the proceedings of an international conference organized in Mantua and consists of contributions on Moscato and his intellectual ...
€88.00$121.00
Edited and with an Introduction by Yehuda Halper. Preface written by Eva Brann
Aryeh Motzin’s extraordinary essays on the encounter between Jewish tradition and philosophy are collected in this volume. Motzkin examines how medieval Jewish thinkers understood Plato and Aristotle, and how these medieval thinkers were, in turn, understood by modern Jewish thinkers.
€184.00$251.00
Edited by Reimund Leicht and Gad Freudenthal
The present volume is devoted to the study of the life and work of Moritz (Moshe) Steinschneider (1816-1907). It shows that far from being a “mere bibliographer,” Steinschneider pursued a precise scientific agenda. This is a noteworthy contribution to our understanding of the project of the ...
€132.00$171.00
Angela Guidi
Examining a variety of medieval Jewish and Christian sources, this book offers a new interpretation of Yehudah Abravanel’s Dialogues of Love, based on the medieval exegetical tradition on the Song of Songs and the pseudo-Solomonic narrative.
€147.00$190.00
Etan Bloom
Ruppin’s immense contribution to the Zionist movement gave him the title “The Father of Jewish/Zionist settlement in Palestine.” Nevertheless, the common narrative sets Ruppin’s historical persona in an ambivalent position and suppresses his formative role and heritage. Part of the reason for ...
€163.00$211.00
Edited by Resianne Fontaine, Ruth Glasner, Reimund Leicht, and Giuseppe Veltri
An hommage to Gad Freudenthal, this volume offers studies on the history of science and on the role of science in medieval and early-modern Jewish cultures, investigating various aspects of processes of knowledge transfer and scientific cross-cultural contacts,
€251.00$325.00
Diana Matut
The so called Wallich-manuscript is one of the most important sources for the study of Yiddish and German folksongs as well as Purim-plays in the Early Modern period. For the first time, this fascinating collection has now been edited completely and a commentary has been prepared.
€132.00$171.00
edited by Andreas Lehnardt
This volume presents the discovery of several hundred new Hebrew and Aramaic manuscript fragments in Germany. It is a collection of conference papers that discuss the historical, paleographical, and cultural significance of these fragments. It is the first in a series of studies of similar ...
€142.00$184.00
Piergabriele Mancuso
Written in southern Italy in the tenth century, Shabbatai Donnolo’s Sefer Hakhmoni is one of the earliest commentaries on Sefer Yeîirah. The volume offers the critical text, an annotated English translation, and a comprehensive introduction to Donnolo and his works.
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