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For more information on the project, see here. This book, produced for the exhibition In and Out, Between and Beyond, presents the scholarly work of a group of historians who study the Jews of medieval Ashkenaz at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in dialogue with the work of contemporary Israeli artists. This is one of the culminating projects of the European Research Council-funded research group Beyond the Elite: Jewish Daily Life in Medieval Europe. Since the inception of the project (fall 2016), the team has worked to construct a history which includes those who were not part of the learned elite as well as those who were learned, about whom we know more. The research team trained its sights on everyday moments, investigating daily routines and the ways medieval Jews understood their lives amidst their host cultures. At the heart of this work is the complexity of the circumstances in which medieval Jews lived: the integration of Ashkenazic Jews within their Christian surroundings, alongside their maintenance of a distinct religious identity. To complement the medieval study underlying this endeavor, the exhibit’s curator, Dr. Ido Noy, orchestrated a fruitful exchange between the research team and seven Israeli artists, who then produced contemporary expressions of the historic ideas under discussion. This book, mirroring the structure of the exhibit, is comprised of sixteen articles. Each one is built around a primary source from a particular literary genre. The colorful catalogue at the end of the volume documents the objects created especially for the exhibition that was displayed physically at the gallery on the Mount Scopus campus of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and can still be viewed virtually.
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SaleJewish Studies 55 (2020) Full Table of Contents Abstracts List of Articles: Michael Schneider z"l - The Liturgical Roots of the Kabbalistic Concept of ‟Unification” Eliyahu Rosenfeld - “One Must Speak with Silence”: The Function of Silence in Virginity Claim Stories from the Babylonian Talmud Richard Hidary - The Talmud as Rhetorical Exercise: Progymnasmata and Controversiae in Rabbinic Literature Eli Gurfinkel - The Order and Structure of the List of the Maimonidean Principles: Between Form and Meaning Hagay Shtamler - “The Course of Ideas in Israel” as a Response to Wissenschaft des Judentums” Book Reviews: Uziel Fuchs - Review of Yaacov Sussmann, Oral Law Taken Literally: The Power of the Tip of a Yod, Jerusalem: Magnes, 2019 Tamar Kadari - Review of Marc Hirshman, Midrash Kohelet Rabbah 1-6: A Critical Edition, Jerusalem: Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, 2016
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SaleJewish Studies 56 (2021) Full Table of Contents Abstracts List of Articles: HEBREW SECTION Yuval Fraenkel - Between Man and Place: The Holy Man and the Temple in Stories about Ḥoni Ha`meagel, and R. Ḥanina Ben Dosa Yosef Marcus - The Status of Persons with Physical Defects in Tannaitic Literature: A New Analysis Michael Avioz - “It is Known that the Stag eats Snakes”: Examining the Scientific Knowledge Drawn Upon by Medieval Jewish Interpretations of Psalms 42 Abraham David - Flavius Josephus’s Writings in Sixteenth Century Jewish Historiography: The Case of Shalshelet ha-Kabbalah of Gedalyah Ibn Yaḥya Chen Avizohar-Hagay and Yuval Harari - ‘For a Woman in a Hard Labor’: A Compilation of Magic Recipes to Deal with Labor Difficulties Ben Landau Spinoza and the “Ecole de Paris” 161 ENGLISH SECTION Israel Knohl - The Original Version of the Priestly Creation Account and the Religious Significance of the Number Eight in the Bible and in Early Jewish MysticismIn his influential study on Jewish mysticism, Gershom
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Jewish Studies 58 (2) (2023) Table of Contents Abstracts List of Articles: 1. Brachi Elitzur and Eden HaCohen - “They Rejected the Desirable Land”: The Sin of the Spies and its Reframing in Rabbinic Literature 2. Jonathan Grossman and Jonathan Jacobs - Ambiguity on the Level of the Plain Sense in Rashi's Commentaries on the Bible 3. Dov Schwartz - Between Spain and Provence: Critical and Cultural Exploration of Rabbi Prof. B. Z. Benedict’s Oeuvre 4. Michal Aziza Ohana - A Modern Rabbinical Autobiography by R. Yeshuah Shimon Hayyim Ovadiah of Sefrou
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Jewish Studies 58 (1) (2023) Table of Contents Abstracts List of Articles: 1. Haggai Mazuz - Midrashic Allusions in al-Bīrūnī’s Writings 2. Omer Michaelis - Psalms and ʿilm al-bāṭin in Baḥya ibn Paquda’s Duties of the Hearts 3. Biti Roi and Uziel Fuchs - The Use of the Introduction to the Talmud Attributed to R. Shmuel haNaggid in Tiqqunei ha- Zohar Literature 4. Amihai Radzyner - The Ring and the Lulav: The Religious Kibbutz and the Halakhic Requirements for Private Property
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Jewish Studies 57 (2) (2022) Table of Contents Abstracts List of Articles: Noam Mizrahi - The Interpretive Transmission of Isaiah as Witnessed by 4QIsag (4Q61) Yael Escojido and Emmanuel Friedheim - The Liberation of Jewish Slaves in the Letter of Aristeas as an Expression of Fear of Assimilation: A Study of the Assimilation Process Affecting Jewish Slaves in the Hellenistic Diaspora Hananel Mack - Because of Whom do the Rains Fall? Alternating Credits in Rain Stories of the Aggadah Literature Gilad Sasson - “In the Sanctuary, O Lord, which thy Hands have Established”: The Homily of Mekhilta of R. Ishmael and Its Parallels in Avot de-Rabbi Natan and in Bavli Ketubbot
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Jewish Studies 57 (1) (2022) Table of Contents Abstracts List of Articles: Maya Shemuelli- An Existential View of Return and Alienation: Exegetic Examination of the Book of Ruth Ofer Elior- The Medieval Hebrew Translations of Euclid's Elements Judith Weiss- Dehiyya, Halifa, and HIbbur: Sefirotic Notions of Metempsychosis in Early Kabbalistic Literature and Some of their Reverberations Ayelet Walfish-Fraenkel- Angels, Demons, and Warlocks: The Myth of the Sons of God and the Daughters of Men in the Zohar as an Etiology of Evil Neta Dan- “22 Letters for Cursing”: Swearing and Insults in Uri Zvi Greenberg's Poetic Language
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Last CopiesIggud - Selected Essays in Jewish Studies, Vol. 3 Languages, Literatures, Arts Editors: Tamar Alexander-Frizer, Yosef Tobi, Dan Laor, Ora Schwartwald, and Ziva Amishai-Maisels Full Table of Contents Iggud: Selected Essays in Jewish Studies: Articles published in the Iggud Volumes will be based on the best lectures which were given in the World Congress for Jewish Studies held in Jerusalem once every 4 years, and these volumes will therefore replace the Proceedings of the World Congress of Jewish Studies which have been published thus far. In the first volumes of Iggud (1-3) were gathered articles based on lectures given on the 14th Congress held in August 2005.
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Last CopiesIggud - Selected Essays in Jewish Studies, Vol. 2 History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewish Society Editors: Gershon C. Bacon, Albert Baumgarten, Jacob Barnai, Haim Waxman, and Israel Yuval Full Table of Contents Iggud: Selected Essays in Jewish Studies: Articles published in the Iggud Volumes will be based on the best lectures which were given in the World Congress for Jewish Studies held in Jerusalem once every 4 years, and these volumes will therefore replace the Proceedings of the World Congress of Jewish Studies which have been published thus far. In the first volumes of Iggud (1-3) were gathered articles based on lectures given on the 14th Congress held in August 2005.
