tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-109567182024-03-14T10:00:23.415+02:00Hagahotmanuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.comBlogger386125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-6222520589198882062013-10-09T22:18:00.002+03:002013-10-09T22:18:39.730+03:00Origins<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/science/ashkenazi-origins-may-be-with-european-women-study-finds.html?_r=0">News feeds</a> and Facebook bubbled over yesterday with discussions of a <a href="http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2013/131008/ncomms3543/full/ncomms3543.html">new genetic study</a> on the origins of Ashkenazic Jews. I read through the study, understanding a very small portion of it, so any thoughts that I have about it might easily be based on misunderstanding. The study distinguishes between the paternal genetical markers of Ashkenazic Jews, which point to roots in the Near East (other than Levites!), and the maternal markers, which are European. So the big news that everyone is talking about is that the people who brought Judaism to Europe were single men and they married local women who converted. <br />
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I wanted to point to a couple of other points in the study that I thought were fascinating. First, the maternal DNA is specifically from Southern Europe, the Northern Mediterranean, and possibly even more specifically Italy. That accords beautifully with several Jewish European origin myths, like the <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/3622487">famous Four Captives</a> from Bari (Southern Italy) who established Torah learning in North Africa, Egypt and Spain, or <a href="http://www.brill.com/history-and-folklore-medieval-jewish-chronicle">Megillat Ahimaatz</a>. The Kalonymides of the Rhineland traced their lineage to Northern Italy (Lucca). The researchers even suggest that the Jews of Spain and their exiled descendants the Sefardim shared this common origin with the Ashkenazim. <br />
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Having written my dissertation on the rabbinic literature of Southern France, I was drawn to the ambiguity of that term, Northern Mediterranean, which might mean specifically Italy and might also mean other areas, like the French Midi. Yaakov Sussman has written a <a href="http://books.google.co.il/books/about/Me%CA%BCah_she%CA%BBarim.html?id=XJvXAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y">speculative article</a> pointing to a variety of cultural parallels between the medieval Jewish communities of Germany and Provence, and seems to imply that they shared a common source, perhaps in early medieval Italy. This might strengthen that suggestion.<br />
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Another point worth noting is the chronology. The researchers have developed a calculator for determining how long ago these genetic events took place. Using it with this data, they say that "these ancestral Jewish populations... may have had an origin in the first millenium BCE, rather than in the wake of the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE". <br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doron_Mendels#Zweierlei_Diaspora._Zur_Spaltung_der_antiken_j.C3.BCdischen_Welt">Some researchers</a> have argued with vigour that the rabbinic Judaism really only spread to Mediterranean Europe in the early Middle Ages, by which time the Hellenized Jews who lived there during Roman times had disappeared one way or another. These new findings seems to suggest that there was continuity from a very early stage. <br />
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In his <a href="http://www.jewish-studies.org/?cmd=lectures&act=result&sid=1146">recent lecture</a>, Prof. Haym Soloveitchik emphasized that his search for the origins of the Ashkenazic community is about "culture and not genetics". I think I would go with that.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-58744131841365627422012-04-30T13:07:00.000+03:002012-04-30T13:07:28.445+03:00Ta ShmaThe National Library of Israel, which has been holding cultural events on a regular basis for the past year or so, is hosting <a href="http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/Hebrew/library/events/EventsCalendar/Pages/Memorial-eve-of-Prof-Israel-Ta-Shema.aspx">an evening</a> tomorrow (Tuesday, May 1st at 8pm) in honour of the Israel Ta Shma memorial volume (titled "Ta Shma"). The speakers include Moshe Idel, who will expand upon his lengthy article on the volume on the Star of David. Hagai Ben-Shamai will speak about the newly discovered <a href="http://www.worldjewishdaily.com/treasure-trove.php">Afghani "Genizah"</a> (a topic on which Shaul Shaked is speaking tonight at 6.15pm at the Mt Scopus campus of Hebrew University, room 5318). <a href="http://www.bmt.org.il/articlenav.php?id=14&en">Rav Mayer Lichtenstein</a> will discuss Prof. Ta-Shma's impact on the yeshivot, an audience that Ta-Shma truly identified with. Prof. Ta-Shma's daughter, Ahinoam Jacobs, will speak on behalf of the family.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-38872427158797118872012-03-07T13:31:00.002+02:002012-03-07T13:41:58.574+02:00Halakhot Pesukot onlineI just noticed that the (former) Sassoon manuscript of Halakhot Pesukot has been digitised and is <a href="http://resource.library.utoronto.ca/manuscripts/digobjectbook.cfm?Idno=F4655">available online</a>. It's a manuscript from 10th century Iraq. If I remember correctly, its collation doesn't conform to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Ren%C3%A9_Gregory">Gregory </a>rule. This manuscript is Matthew <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Studies-Babylonian-Aramaic-Eastern-Manuscripts/dp/1575069385">Morgenstern</a>'s foremost example of 'Grade A EEMss' (Early Eastern Manuscripts). Parts of it are vocalized with Babylonian supra-linear vocalization. And now you can read it in the privacy of your own home (without even having to purchase the Jerusalem 1971 facsimile edition).manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-63991390146886149982012-02-21T16:53:00.001+02:002012-02-21T16:55:17.785+02:00Oxford GenizahThe Genizah fragments in the Bodleian Library at Oxford are now <a href="http://genizah.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/">online</a>!manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-58022446731331596082011-12-27T19:56:00.002+02:002011-12-27T19:58:13.798+02:00Two attitudes towards the Talmudhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifA Hannukah party is waiting to be organized so telegraphically - there are two basic attitudes towards the Talmud. Legal code or multivalent discussion. Summarized admirably in the following two quotes <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/nyregion/an-index-for-the-talmud-after-1500-years.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all">in the NYTimes</a>:<br /><p> </p><blockquote><p>Rabbi Benjamin Blech, professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University, said the rabbis believed that study should not be made too easy. “We want people to struggle with the text because by figuring it out you will have a deeper comprehension,” he said. “They wanted a living index, not a printed index.” </p><p> Nothing satisfied Mr. Retter’s needs. As he said: “I’m a lawyer, and if I want to know the law, I look it up in an index.” </p></blockquote><p></p>manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-31160643754906610262011-11-25T09:07:00.004+02:002011-11-25T09:47:22.076+02:00Hungarian Responsa Studies (book review)תשובות ושאלות<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Studies in Responsa Literature</span>, ed. Viktoria Banyai and Szonja Rahel Komoroczy, Budapest 2011<br /><br />It is rare to hear of a new scholarly volume entirely devoted to Halakhic responsa (or, indeed, to any aspect of post-Talmudic Halakhah). So I was fascinated by the very existence of 'Studies in Responsa Literature'. It is a collection of studies by scholars affiliated (at present or in the past) with the <a href="http://www.hebraisztika.hu/site/english.jsp">Center of Jewish Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences</a>. According to the introduction, the volume reflects the sustained interest in responsa that the students and teachers at the Center have maintained over the past several years. That institutional focus on responsa is also noteworthy. Responsa literature is so rich and multivalent that a concerted approach by different scholars with different interests makes a lot of sense. It also makes for a rewarding reading experience, going through a volume with multiple authors but with a fairly unified topic.<br /><br />The first article in the volume is by Tamas (Sinai) Turan, who has made his mark in Budapest and in Jerusalem. The title is 'Terse Analogical Reasoning in Responsa Literature: Four Medieval Examples', but despite all that detail, it doesn't really explain the point of this deeply learned article. Taking examples from early medieval responsa (Geonim, Rashi, Maimonides, Tosafists), Turan shows how declarative statements by the rabbinic respondents often mask a more complicated Halakhic reality. He suggests that the text of the responsum often serves a rhetorical purpose, and that the actual Halakhic rationale employed by the rabbi may be hidden from view.<br /><br />Dora Zsom has recently several articles recently (in the Hispania Judaica Bulletin) on rabbinic attitudes towards Jewish converts to Christianity in late medieval Spain and its diaspora. Here she discusses the central role that these converts played in the kosher wine trade in Spain, Majorca and North Africa, and the changing attitudes taken by the rabbis of the Duran family.<br /><br />That's it for the medieval responsa. Geza Komoroczy discusses a responsum by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzvi_Ashkenazi">Hakham Zvi</a> about events in Budapest during the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Buda_%281686%29"> 1686 siege</a>. His contention is that the person discussed in the responsum - whose wife and daughter were killed by a "bomba" during the siege - is actually Hakham Zvi himself, and draws grim conclusions from this about the rabbi's integrity. But, as far as I can see, the only basis for this identification is that, in describing his own flight from the city in 1686, Hakham Zvi mentioned losing 'my books and my dearest beloved', which is how Komoroczy translates the Hebrew and inteprets the 'dearest beloved' as being his wife and daughter. But the Hebrew term he translated is מחמדי הטובים, which can refer to prized possessions, maybe nice clothes like those of Esau, but I can't imagine a man referring that way to his dead wife and child. Without that, the whole identification falls apart.<br /><br />Viktoria Banyai points to the potential use of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noda_Bihuda">Rabbi Yehezkel Landau</a>'s responsa (including some recently published manuscripts) for the study of Jewish history in Hungary. It's a short article and quite focused. But a lot of significant research has been done on the Noda bi-Yehudah recently (by Sharon Flatto and Maoz Kahana - others too?). Hopefully, these different scholarly strands will come together.<br /><br />Szonja Rahel Komoroczy writes a fascinating analysis of <a href="http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Lichtenstein_Hillel">R Hillel Lichtenstein</a>'s belief in the importance of Yiddish as a Jewish language, as the only language that Jews should speak. Besides studying several of his responsa and sermons, she points to the impact that this attitude had on the print history of Hungarian Jewry.<br /><br />The last three articles in the book discuss Holocaust-era responsa and Halakhic discussions. Because the Nazis reached Hungary at a late stage in World War II, the communities there had the opportunity to consider the Halakhic ramifications of the tragedy enveloping them, and many of those responsa have been published over the past few decades.<br /><br />I hope that the Center in Budapest continues to study responsa, and to publish its findings in English.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-69213298954719184902011-10-06T09:56:00.002+02:002011-10-06T09:58:31.663+02:00Wikipedian lacunaWikipedia has a rubric, but no article, on<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textual_criticism_of_the_Talmud"> 'Textual criticism of the Talmud'</a>. Is there no one out there to fill this in, le-hagdil Torah ule-ha'adirah?manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-12370714920029571822011-07-20T14:39:00.000+03:002011-07-20T14:40:23.685+03:00BWB colloquium day 3<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:donotshowinsertionsanddeletions/> <w:donotshowpropertychanges/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>HE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> 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content of binding fragments in 15<sup>th</sup>-18<sup>th</sup> century Europe. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Pellikan">Konrad Pellikan</a> described his attempts as a young man to learn Hebrew from fragments of Hebrew manuscripts he saw as bindings. From end of 15<sup>th</sup> century, widespread desire to learn Hebrew but little access to texts. Awareness of the fact that bindings are in Hebrew is passive Hebrew literacy. Italian notaries sometimes began their register with a description of the number of pages and the type of binding of the register, in order to protect against later alteration of their records. Sometimes they note that the register is bound in parchment, sometimes that the parchment has writing on it, and occasionally that the writing was in Hebrew. In 1764, JS Semler published a sermon calling attention to the potential of Hebrew manuscript bindings for studying biblical textual variants. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">Dr Javier Castaño</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">Hebrew documents from Spain should be divided into five areas:</span></p> <br /><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">Catalonia (including Valencia, Majorca, Roussillon)</span><br /><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">Navarre and Aragon</span><br /><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">Castile and Portugal</span><br /><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">NW Castile (Burgos, Valladolid)</span><br /><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font: major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">Andalusia (has not been studied yet)</span><br /> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">Discussion of court documents from Navarra, including Maaseh Bet Din that summarizes documents (ketubah, tsava’ah, shetar matanah) dating back over 100 years in context of a family conflict over inheritance.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">Justine Isserles – Hebrew binding fragments in Switzerland. 28 fragments in all, in Ashkenazic script. Mahzorim. Biblical fragments. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">Saskia Dönitz</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">Two unusual fragments in Berlin, a biblical commentary still unidentified. Berlin Staatsbibliothek has important Oriental collection, has not been catalogued since Steinschneider, so probably potential for finding more fragments. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">8 folios in two columns, reused in Seheim (SE of Darmstadt) from 1619 onwards – biblical commentary on end of Deuteronomy and beginning of Genesis, identified by Steinschneider as being by Menahem ben Shelomo (Midrash Sekhel Tov). Since Sekhel Tov has not been published on this section, hard to say for certain. Buber, in his introduction to his edition of the midrash, mentions these fragments which were copied for him and he concludes that they are not from the midrash. Part of the commentary focuses on linguistic parallels, another part is more midrashic and discusses numerical significance of letters. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font: major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">Judith Olszowy-Schlanger</span></p> <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi; mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Revisiting Durham fragment already described in 2003 and earlier. Peter the Venerable, most radical anti-Jewish polemicist, first Western Christian source to mention Talmud, as well as Alpha Beta de-ben Sira. AB de-ben Sira was widely read and copied by Jews. It is also quoted in the Hebrew-Latin-French glossary published in 2008 – evidence that it was known in Hebrew in 13<sup>th</sup> century England. Very small fragment of Latin translation of AB ben Sira, preserved in Durham library. Already detached from binding so hard to know what it looked like there, but binding was done in England and clear that it was folded over the outside of a book and then later reused in a 16<sup>th</sup> century binding as a pastedown. Interlinear Latin translation of Hebrew text – superscriptio. Hebrew writing includes calligraphic elements, but also cursive aleph (found in documentary texts), seems to have been written by a Jew. Vocalization is in the same ink as superscription and follows system used in other Hebrew-Latin manuscripts. Translation reflects accurate grasp of Hebrew language, including nuance such as ‘ha-Makom’ = Dominus.</span>manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-86217666664024016782011-07-19T22:58:00.004+03:002011-07-22T11:40:55.637+03:00BWB colloquium – day 2<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:trackmoves/> <w:trackformatting/> <w:donotshowrevisions/> <w:donotprintrevisions/> <w:donotshowinsertionsanddeletions/> <w:donotshowpropertychanges/> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:donotpromoteqf/> <w:lidthemeother>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:lidthemeasian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:lidthemecomplexscript>HE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> 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There are also many modern Oriental and Yemenite fragments, including those donated by Ezra Gorodetzky and Israel Mehlman. More fragments are held in Jerusalem by Michael Krupp and by the Schocken Institute for Jewish Research. There is no budget at the library for studying the fragments, nor for searching for fragments still within NLI bindings. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://aleph.nli.org.il/F?func=direct&local_base=nnl01&doc_number=42463">27 fragments</a> of Isaac de Lattes’s Kiryat Sefer. <a href="http://aleph.nli.org.il/F?func=direct&local_base=nnl01&doc_number=2612873">2 badly damaged fragments</a> of responsa by Rabad of Posquieres, including the tail end of an unknown responsum. <a href="http://aleph.nli.org.il/F?func=direct&local_base=nnl01&doc_number=46275">6 pages</a> of Grabadin, a medical work by Elisha the Greek (15<sup>th</sup> century, probably from Adrianople) – Ezra Gorodetzky has fragments of another copy. Ephraim Wust recently discovered that this author, <a href="http://www.ybz.org.il/_Uploads/dbsAttachedFiles/Article_41.5%285%29.pdf">Elisha the Physician</a>, was the teacher of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemistus_Pletho">Georgius Gemistus</a>. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Fragments of Gersonides on Pentateuch, unidentified introduction to the Talmud, laws of Passover, Nahmanides on Pentateuch, Talmud Bavli Berachot and Baba Mezia.</p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><blockquote><p class="MsoNormal">Update: Dr Ezra Chwat adds the following about 'Genizat Yerushalayim':</p><p class="MsoNormal">Most of the Genizat Yerushalayim items can be found in NLI Heb. 8°1800, presently holding 400 cataloged items. Among them, material similar to Cairo Genizah fragment, like <a href="http://aleph.nli.org.il/F?func=direct&local_base=nnl01&doc_number=3036237">this one</a>, that if they were not in secondary use as bindings would have remained in an unknown Yemenite genizah that dated to 12th cent, if not The (Ben Ezra) Genizah.</p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Prof Simcha Emanuel – the first Tosafist autograph manuscript</b></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Most of the few extant autographs of medieval rabbis were found in the Cairo genizah. Yehudah ha-Levi, Maimonides, R Hayye Gaon, R Samuel ben Ali, R Manoah. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">A single leaf, commentary on TB Berachot, found in monastery in Melk. Unfortunately, no information in the library on what book the leaf was originally bound into. The page contains corrections and lengthy additions, including lines that run along the side of the page. Additional leaves from the same manuscript are found in Gratz, including the end of commentary to Berachot. On one of those pages there is a quote from the author’s brother, R Yehudah. This quotation is found word for word in <a href="http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%97%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%99_%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%95%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9D">Yihuse Tannaim va-Amoraim</a>. So the author was the brother of R Yehuda ben Kalonymus of Speyer. R Yehuda’s older brother, Meir, wrote Tosafot but these do not quote the younger brother. R David ben Kalonymus of Mintzburg seems to have been much younger than R Yehuda, and therefore Urbach suspected that he wasn’t even his brother. But Aptowitzer pointed out that he was simply a much younger brother. This R David is probably the author of the fragmentary Berachot commentary. 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mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style> <![endif]--><b style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">Dr Esperança Valls </span></b><span style=" Calibri","sans-serif";font-family:";font-size:11pt;" ><span style="font-family:times new roman;">discussed economic fragments from Girona - list of moneylenders, a builder's contract in Hebrew and other documents.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Prof Martha Keil described the state of the <a href="http://www.ksbm.oeaw.ac.at/hebraica/index.php">Austrian Genizah project,</a> which has almost finished with the small libraries and is ready to tackle the large ones. Then she spoke about an exhibition that she helped organize at the <a href="http://www.jmw.at/exhibitions">Jewish museum in Vienna</a>, illustrating <a href="http://vimeo.com/17818286">medieval Jewish life in Vienna</a> through Hebrew manuscript fragments.<br /><span style=" Calibri","sans-serif";font-family:";font-size:11pt;" ><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-70596613041758910002011-07-19T00:06:00.002+03:002011-07-19T00:12:46.712+03:00Books Within Books colloquium - day 1I arrived in Oxford today for the <a href="http://www.hebrewmanuscript.com/news/eajs-annual-colloquium-books-within-books-new-discoveries-in-old-book-bindings-14.htm">BWB colloquium</a> at Wolfson College. For tonight, just some brief notes. Andreas Lehnardt described what he's been up to since the last meeting of the various European Genizah searchers. He mentioned an actual genizah of a small synagogue in Mainz that includes some old manuscripts. An Italian ketubah bound inside a Hebrew manuscript in Frankfurt. Mauro Perani mentioned that the Modena fragments of Sifre were finally detached from the books they were binding, just a few weeks ago, revealing that a 16th century owner of the manuscript added the full text of the verses quoted in the Sifre. Unclear why he did that - in preparation for a printed edition of the Sifre? Copying from another manuscript? Or just for his own use?<br />The geographical range of researchers at this gathering is exciting, as Hebrew fragments crop up in more and more places.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-1449985640935553952011-07-11T13:16:00.002+03:002011-07-11T13:31:30.906+03:00MajorcaThe <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/11/world/europe/11iht-conversos11.html?_r=1&src=rechp">NYT reports</a> that R Nissim Karelitz has declared several old Majorcan families to be Jews.<br />Majorca was an important way-station for Jews fleeing France in 1306. At the time it was part of a semi-independent kingdom of the same name that also controlled Montpellier. So R Aharon ha-Kohen, author of Orhot Hayyim AND the Kolbo, spent some time there with Rabbi Falcon before moving on to the Spanish mainland. While there he reworked the Orhot Hayyim, and some manuscripts of the work (including the one that volume 2 was published from) contain references to the island and the local rabbi. For all you ever dreamed of knowing about medieval Majorca, see <a href="http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/academic_staff/further_details/abulafia-d.html">David Abulafia</a>'s <em></em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mediterranean-Emporium-Catalan-Kingdom-Majorca/dp/0521894050"><em>A Mediterranean Emporium: the Catalan Kingdom of Ma</em><em>jorca</em></a><em>.</em>manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-70507051491333523302011-06-17T16:50:00.002+03:002011-06-17T16:55:58.159+03:00And more new booksMatthew Morgenstern's long-awaited book on Babylonian Jewish Aramaic <a href="https://www.eisenbrauns.com/ECOM/_38T0L2KJF.HTM">has been published</a>. BJA is the language of the Babylonian Talmud and other related works including the writings of the Babylonian Geonim, and Morgenstern's work is based on careful use of many manuscripts. Hence the title of the book:<span style="font-style: italic;"> Studies in Jewish Babylonian Aramaic based upon Early Eastern Manuscripts</span>.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-8401916507083956422011-06-16T15:27:00.002+03:002011-06-16T15:35:15.504+03:00More new booksAnother new book, in English and therefore not on sale at the Hebrew Book Week but nevertheless newly published in Israel and imminently available in the US as well, is <span style="font-style: italic;">Et Le'ehov: The Newlywed's Guide to Physical Intimacy</span>. Published by Geffen and available for pre-order on Amazon <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Newlywed-Guide-Physical-Intimacy/dp/9652295353/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1308227321&sr=8-1">here</a>. It's a sex manual for engaged and newly married religious Jewish couples. Such couples face many of the confusing, bemusing and <a href="http://unconsummated.blogspot.com/2011/05/gamechanger.html">sometimes very difficult</a> situations that any new couple can face, and also many situations that are culturally more unique. This book is a frank attempt to address those situations, without compromising religious or clinical standards. It was written jointly by Drs Jennie Rosenfeld and David Ribner. One of the authors has a son-in-law who learned in yeshivah with me. The other author is rather more closely related to me.<br />Order your copy now - if not for you, then for someone you know!manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-6981166110639503492011-06-16T15:12:00.002+03:002011-06-16T15:26:35.941+03:00New booksObviously, this is the season for new books in Israel. <a href="http://www.herzog.ac.il/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=105&Itemid=186">Tevunot </a>has released a new volume that I think is very important and useful. The book is titled 'Introduction to the Midrashic Literature', and in Hebrew - מבוא למדרשים. The author is Anat Reizel, a doctoral student at Ben Gurion University who recently finished her MA at Hebrew University with Avigdor Shinan. Her MA thesis dealt with Midrash Eikhah Zuta.<br />The book, with more than 400 pages, covers all of the major and most of the minor midrashim. For each midrash, Anat reviews the state of research on questions like provenance and text. For each one she provides one or two nice examples of midrashic technique. She also provides bibliographic information on editions and studies.<br />Earlier versions of some of the chapters can be found <a href="http://www.mayim.org.il/">here </a>- there's a tab in the sidebar labelled 'Mavo la-Midrashim'.<br /><br />Reizel's introduction to the midrashim is available now at the Tevunot stand at Shavua ha-Sefer for only 60 shekels. It's also available <a href="http://www.moreshet.co.il/web/mall/index.asp?Store=130&kodstore=1034">online </a>for 80 shekels.<br /><br />Disclosure: the author is an old friend of mine, and I helped a little with the bibliographic aspects of the book. That said, I have no doubt that this is one of the most helpful tools for students and scholars of Midrash to appear in a while. Without purporting to contain original discoveries, it presents a great deal of pertinent information that anyone dealing with the gamut of midrashic literature need but rarely know offhand.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-87260867082146872002011-06-12T21:36:00.002+03:002011-06-12T21:42:37.622+03:00Valmadonna catalogueThe Valmadonna Trust Library, which by now is surely the most famous private collection of Hebrew books in the world, has sponsored several catalogues and studies of different aspects of the collection. A new volume has now been published, devoted to the incunabula and other rare printings. These include books printed on vellum, on coloured paper and on silk. Besides listing the holdings of the library, the volume includes studies of these different types of books by some of the leading Hebrew bibliographers of our times. Adrian Offenberg contributed an essay on the incunabula, Yitshak Yudelov summed up what is known about Hebrew printing on vellum, and Brad Sabin Hill studied printing on colour paper (I remember first seeing books with blue paper in the late lamented Yeshurun library). The editor was David Sclar.<br />The volume was printed in 300 copies and is available at shmintz@gmail.com or custodian.valmadonna@idcholdings.com.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-57678343692849929382011-06-09T08:51:00.002+03:002011-06-09T08:55:47.235+03:00Sperber conferenceBar Ilan University is holding a <a href="http://talmud.biu.ac.il/he/node/462">conference </a>on Monday to mark the retirement of Prof. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sperber">Daniel Sperber</a>. The first session is devoted to topics in Hazal and late Antiquity, while the second session is on medieval and modern times.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-47276781181377438492011-05-30T09:31:00.003+03:002011-05-30T10:37:47.635+03:00The Ultimate Critical EditionProfessor Menahem Kahana is the unrivalled expert in Tannaitic Midrash (Midrash Halakhah). Over the past decade he has published two major books. The first was a partial and comparative edition of the two Mekhiltot on Exodus, focusing on the Aggadic section about Amalek. The second was an edition of Sifre Zuta on Deuteronomy - a midrash that was so lost we didn't even know it existed until Kahana found it.<br />Kahana's doctorate was a prolegomenon to Sifre Numbers. Now, almost thirty years later, the groundwork he laid there is beginning to come to fruition. The <a href="http://www.magnespress.co.il/website/index.asp?id=3388">first volume of his critical edition</a> of Sifre Numbers has been published by Magnes. It includes an introduction, and the full critical apparatus for the first 106 pericopes of the midrash. It also has a more minimal edition of the remainder of the midrash (a simple transcription of the Vatican MS). Two more volumes are supposed to appear soon, with his exhaustive commentary on the first part of the midrash. The commentary and the full edition of the last part is still in the works. The TOC and preface are <a href="http://www.magnespress.co.il/pdf_files/upload/131113.pdf">online</a>.<br />I haven't seen the book yet. But I've taken enough courses with Kahana, and read enough of his published work, to know that the standards of this edition are extremely high. I'm not sure I'll be able to find room on my shelf for all these volumes of a midrash that until now took up only a couple of centimeters. But I look forward to seeing the complete edition in print.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-91924880460738867652011-05-23T19:44:00.002+03:002011-05-23T20:11:16.279+03:00Talmud Department<a href="http://academictalmud.blogspot.com/">The blogger</a> who usually reports on Yossi Cedar's movie Footnote is busy running a <a href="http://academictalmud.blogspot.com/2011/05/conference-encounters-by-rivers-of.html">major conference</a>, so he hasn't noted that <a href="http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/05/23/3087826/israeli-director-cedars-awarded-at-cannes">the movie won best screenplay at Cannes</a>. I'm sure he'll rectify that soon. But now that the whole world has been exposed (or will be soon) to the joys and terrors of the Talmud department, it seems like a good opportunity to encourage young people to choose to study there.<br />For all the criticism that can be heard (sometimes from me), it is a remarkable department. The teachers are extremely learned, and they all are deeply committed to their students. Jewish studies has grown worldwide, but the Hebrew University Talmud department remains the best place in the world to study Midrash Halakhah, Geonic literature and medieval Halakhah, not to mention the core topics of Mishnah and both Talmuds. In general, I believe it is the best place to study what can generally be called 'Talmudic philology' and to gain a close and balanced familiarity with the manuscripts.<br />Besides all that, for the second year running the department is offering full scholarships for students beginning their BA. Full scholarships are also available for those beginning an MA and even for students pursuing supplementary courses to upgrade from a B.Ed to an MA.<br /><br />And maybe you'll even appear in the sequel movie, Nispah (Excursus).manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-9098432813220444082011-05-18T15:39:00.003+03:002011-05-18T16:09:15.883+03:00Peering through the conferenceshttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifShazar has published a <a href="http://www.shazarbooks.co.il/bookDetails.asp?book=571">Hebrew translation</a> of Ephraim Kanarfogel's Peering through the Lattices: Mystical, Magical, Miraculous, Martyrological, Moribund, Dimensions in the Tosafist Period. In honour of this event, there will be <a href="http://www.shazar.org.il/pdf/shavua_06-11.pdf">an event </a>at the Shazar offices on May 26th, with Profs Avraham Grossman, Yossef Hecker, Moshe Idel and the author.<br /><br />Bar Ilan University is having a major conference devoted to Rashbam, Rabbi Samuel ben Meir of Ramerupt or thereabouts, in memory of Eliezer Touito. Non-fancy schedule <a href="http://www1.biu.ac.il/File/rashbam%2030_5.pdf">here</a>. It amazes me, the amount of attention that scholars of medieval biblical exegesis lavish on a fairly limited corpus. I must admit that it also frustrates me that despite all this enthusiasm for studying Rashbam's biblical exegesis, his Talmudic commentaries and, to an even greater degree, his Halakhic writings have received virtually no attention whatsoever. Anyway, <a href="http://www.hfjs.eu/hochschule/dozenten/professoren/hliss.html">Hanna Liss</a> has recently published a new book on Rashbam titled<a href="http://www.brill.nl/creating-fictional-worlds"> Creating Fictional Worlds</a>. I haven't finished reading it, so I'll hold off on criticism, but the basic idea is that Rashbam was responding to the Christian culture surrounding him, but not in the way people like the late Touito thought. The real backdrop is not the scholastic biblical exegesis that was being written in Latin, but rather the romances being written in the vernacular (French). I look forward to being convinced of this intriguing suggestion.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-38406381616180073792011-05-02T21:21:00.004+03:002011-05-03T11:02:56.071+03:00Ha-Ma'ayanThe new issue of ha-Ma'ayan is <a href="http://www.shaalvim.co.il/torah/hamaayan.asp">online</a>. I haven't had time to go through it carefully. But there is one exchange that I thought was worth commenting on. S<a href="http://www.shaalvim.co.il/torah/maayan-article.asp?id=502">omeone who berated </a>R Yoel Friedmann for his critical review (in an earlier issue of ha-Ma'ayan) of R David Avraham's new edition of Sefer ha-Terumah. Friedmann is working on a doctorate on Sefer ha-Terumah, and noone knows the manuscripts of that work better than he does. His main complaint against the new edition was that the editor used the manuscripts in a haphazard way, without trying to determine their relative worth. It's worth mentioning that R David Avraham's previous project was a massive (8 volumes, I think) new edition of Sefer Kolbo. His footnotes there are exhaustive and sometimes exhausting but definitely helpful. But Kolbo is almost unique among medieval Halakhic works in that it exists only in a printed edition - no manuscripts of it are known to have survived.<br /><br />The berater declares that Friedmann's perspective is irrelevant because it is academic, whereas Avraham is following the methodology of the 'Yeshiva world'. Academics concern themselves with variants and with determining the original text, while Yeshiva adherents are enamoured of the received text that has been sanctified by generations of learning. I've heard that claim before, and I find it silly, but if it's followed consistently, at least it doesn't purport to more than it achieves. However, as Friedmann points out <a href="http://www.shaalvim.co.il/torah/maayan-article.asp?id=503">in his rejoinder</a>, this new edition is not a reproduction of the standard printed text, since the editor did in fact make use of manuscripts and presents this as one of the main advantages of his edition. In this light, the berater's position seems to be that the Yeshiva world insists on its right to use critical tools haphazardly. Ignoring them would bespeak ignorance, but using them carefully and consistently would apparently betray the values of the Yeshiva world. So a happy compromise is found in mediocrity.<br /><br />The number of scholars within the "Yeshiva world" who are studying Talmudic philology and other branches of critical Jewish studies, and applying them carefully and successfully to traditional texts and traditional questions is growing. This issue of Ha-Ma'ayan includes a few interesting examples. But the tension is still there. Looking at other articles in the issue, one can find <a href="http://www.shaalvim.co.il/torah/maayan-article.asp?id=497">an attempt</a> to resolve a Halakhic question with grave implications for the rule of law in Israel through comparison of manuscripts. On the other hand, in Rav Yoel Katan's <a href="http://www.shaalvim.co.il/torah/maayan-article.asp?id=510">regular column</a> which surveys new books in the field, he criticizes the author of <a href="http://www.yhn.co.il/books-1/drkhmlk">Derekh ha-Melekh</a> for citing too many academic sources in a Halakhic context. Of course, there is a big difference between <a href="http://cnx.org/content/m11803/latest/">the application of thought to textual criticism</a> and privileging any article published in an academic journal over traditional sources. But the allure of academic Jewish studies is quite bright.<br /><br />The argument over Sefer ha-Terumah upsets me, partly because I know R Yoel Friedmann, but mostly because the study of medieval Halakhah is one field where the distance between academics and traditional learners is fairly small, and the opportunities for working symbiotically are great.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-34512052066705160602011-04-15T14:06:00.003+03:002011-04-15T14:54:55.673+03:00Prof Benayahu Memorial EveningThe <a href="http://jnul.huji.ac.il/eng/">National Library of Israel</a> will be holding a memorial evening for Prof. Meir Benayahu on May 5th, with lectures by Moshe Idel, Roberto Bonfil and Avraham Grossman. Poster <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/manuscriptboy/files/Benayahuevening.jpg?attredirects=0&d=1"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">here</span></a>. The event will be chaired by Aviad Stollman, whose volume of <a href="http://atranet.co.il/aviadstollman/responsa.html">responsa</a>, Pele Yoetz, is now <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/manuscriptboy/files/PeleAd.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1">available</a>.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-79002050936666447612011-03-14T14:04:00.002+02:002011-03-14T14:11:39.218+02:00More and more onlineSome recent arrivals online:<br />The very important Rosenthaliana manuscript of Or Zarua - in <a href="http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/cgi/i/image/image-idx?view=entry;subview=detail;c=ubinvimg;cc=ubinvimg;entryid=x-HS-ROS-3-1;lang=nl;sid=c2d69d4c176d48037eb7be7ef4ad63d1">two </a><a href="http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/cgi/i/image/image-idx?view=entry;subview=detail;c=ubinvimg;cc=ubinvimg;entryid=x-HS-ROS-3-2;lang=nl;sid=c2d69d4c176d48037eb7be7ef4ad63d1">volumes</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.e-corpus.org/eng/notices/104554-Manuscrits-h%C3%A9-bra%C3%AF-ques.html#topPage">Several Hebrew manuscripts from the municipal library of Nimes</a>, including an <a href="http://www.e-corpus.org/eng/notices/104576-1-%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%A8-%D7%9E%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%9F-%5B=-Sefer-mi&ccedil-wot-qa%E1%B9%ADan-Petit-livre-des-Commandements%5D-appel&eacute-commun&eacute-ment-Sma-q-par-R-Isaac-fils-de-R-....html">early copy of Isaac of Corbeil's Amude Golah</a>.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/227599">More than 6000 fragments</a> in Judeo-Arabic from the Cambridge University Taylor-Schechter Additional Series.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-53529836459738278572011-03-13T14:59:00.002+02:002011-03-14T22:20:01.819+02:00Conference on Halakhah and history<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6VWKuEGp7q7JkZBNH3sqqfo34H-5tmcU1FsTMsmQenHfaSrpvhaVcxTyEjwr34woE0avy4R13uKO3jIpAZQc5RSepvwhnAQLleHZ1FKb6uNr5le43Jt8U7Nt510r4QV5zcjjzyQ/s1600/Halakhah+conference+poster+webpage.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6VWKuEGp7q7JkZBNH3sqqfo34H-5tmcU1FsTMsmQenHfaSrpvhaVcxTyEjwr34woE0avy4R13uKO3jIpAZQc5RSepvwhnAQLleHZ1FKb6uNr5le43Jt8U7Nt510r4QV5zcjjzyQ/s400/Halakhah+conference+poster+webpage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583548515259222258" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://limudbchevruta.wiki.huji.ac.il/index.php/%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%94:Halakhah_conference_poster.pdf">PDF version available here</a>.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-69449360162840789942011-02-23T23:35:00.002+02:002011-02-23T23:37:42.535+02:00Haside AshkenazEverybody's favourite medieval Jews now have another volume devoted to them - <a href="ftp://mail.shazar.org.il/books/tochensod.pdf">volume five</a> of <a href="http://www.josephdan.com/english/index.asp">Yosef Dan's</a> <a href="http://www.josephdan.com/english/sod.asp">survey </a>of Jewish mysticism.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10956718.post-89337496928962076732011-02-21T21:44:00.003+02:002011-02-21T22:04:43.376+02:0013th Century France - some thoughtsThe aim of <a href="http://ias.huji.ac.il/isf/france/">the conference</a>, as I understood it, was to begin to bridge the gap between scholars studying Jewish and Christian history in the same time and place. By juxtaposing papers on similar topics in both societies, it could be possible to find shared concepts, ideas, trends, developments and so forth.<br />Most of the lectures were like regular academic lectures - some better, some worse, but each basically focused inwardly. There were a few - notably, the lectures given by the organizers of the conference, and by scholars whose work often bridges the gap between the two societies (Sara Lipton, Kirsten Fudeman) - that really gave us a vision of what could be done.<br /><br />An interesting aspect of the conference was that each of the four days was summed up in a round-table discussion. On the first day (from what I heard afterwards - I wasn't able to stay till the last session) the discussion was about definitions and directions. The next couple of days, the last sessions were focused on what had been said during the day, without giving all that much of a wider perspective. But by the last day, after all had been said and done, and people were already used to the round-table format, the discussion became very focused on the potential for finding commonalities and mutual influence in medieval France. It was in that context that one participants, whose consistent position has been to dismiss any influence of medieval Christian thought on Jewish communities, made the comment about the outhouses.<br /><br />Some of this debate obviously depends on the kind of influence you have in mind. Christians and Jews in medieval France spoke the same language. They lived in the same cities, saw each other every day, did business of various sorts with each other. The tricky questions have to do with ideas, but even then, there are different levels. Commonalities in biblical exegesis may be coincidental. But what about popular religious developments? If Christian preachers and writers were targeting a wider audience, would rabbis have known about that and tried to do the same?<br /><br />In terms of legal history, the differences between medieval Halakhah and the various systems of medieval Christian law are great. I'm still very unclear on what kinds of comparisons can be made profitably. I'm a little frustrated that the lectures I heard on that topic didn't help to clarify points that would help me understand that. But I learned a lot, met some top scholars, ate catered lunches for a week, and now I need to learn more.manuscriptboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03013995279983168188noreply@blogger.com0