Zutot 2003 [Paperback]

Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture 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 Zutot serves as a platform for small but incisive contributions, and provides them with a 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. Zutot 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.

Folklore And Magic. The Synagogue as a Stage for Magic; L. Mock. Baba Bathra 73a-b; H. Jacobson. The Poetical Qualities of the Apostle Peter in Jewish Folktale; W.J. van Bekkum. Ibn Gabirol's Keter Malkhut. Judaeo-Arabic Paraphrase of Ibn Gabirol's Keter Malkhut; Y.T. Langermann. On the Use of Hebrew Words in Parenthesis in a Yiddish Text: the Case of Keter Malkhut (Amsterdam 1673); S.Z. Berger. Philosophy And Science. The Philosophical Background of the Andalusian Hebrew Grammar (10th Century); J. Mart?nez Delgado. Some Remarks on the Source of Maimonides' Plato in Guide of the Perplexed I.17; J.T. Robinson. On Naphtali Herz Ulman's Biography and the Reception of His Works in The Netherlands; F.A. van Lieburg. New Light on the Physician Aaron Salomon Gumpertz: Medicine, Science and Early Haskalah in Berlin; G. Freudenthal. Sephardica. El eskribano grande: Traces of Linguistics Shift among Sephardic Jews in Sevenl.