Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, 1985. Division C, Jewish Thought and Literature. Jerusalem, August 4-12,1985.
Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 1986. Softbound. Royal octavo, paper covers, iv, 192, 460 pp. Very Good. Item #50936
In English and Hebrew. Articles in English are," The Semikha - A Compositional Form of Rabbinic Homily," Arnold Goldberg, "Rabbinic Continuity and Revisions in the Notion of Sacred Space - Applying Deuteronomy 23:10-15," Baruch M. Bokser, "Scripture and the Interpretation of Mishnah - The Case of Tractate Kilayim," Irving J. Mandelbaum, "The Origins of the Sugya as a Literary Unit," David C. Kraemer, "New Bibliographic and Textual Tools for Talmudic Research," Shamma Friedman, "Who Said It First? The Antiquity of 'Be Thou My Wife,'" Abraham M. Mann, "Why the 'Erusin' and the 'Nissu'in' were combined? A Study in Historical Causation," Herman H. Pollack, "It there and Ethic beyond Halakhah?" J. David Bleich, "Language and Theme in the Piyyut -Takas and ite Derivation," W. Jac. van Bekkum, "Paternite et Filiation dans Quelques Biographies Juives de Jesus au Moyen-Age," Jean-Christophe Attias, "'Sun Stand Still' - A Philosophical-Astronomical Midrash," Seymour Feldman, "Nissim of Marseilles' Approach to the 'Iqqarim,'" Barry Mesch, "The View of Maimonides as a Determinist in 'Sefer Minhat Qenaot, by Abner of Burgos," Shoshanna Gershenzon, "Stories in Jewish Sermons (The 15th-16th Centuries)," Marc Saperstein, "The Lublin Manuscript of the Frankist 'Ksiega Slow-Panskich' - Some Themes," Hillel Levine, "The Three-Fld Tales of Jacob Frank," Harris Lenowitz, "Separation and Reconciliation - American Orthodoxy and the Concept of Zion," Gershon Greenberg, "Bemerkungen zur Sprache eines lateinschriftlichen Jiddish-Glossars," Walter Röll, "The Ideology of Mendel Mokher Sefarim," Emanuel S. Goldsmith, "Breakdown in Mendele and Agnon," David Aberbach, "Jews in the Dutch Countryside in Dutch Literature (1895-1930)," Henriette Boas, "Two Voices pf the Holocaust - Paul Celan and Immalenel Weissglas," Amy D. Colin, "Paul Celan - the Poet as Jew," Alfred Hoelzel, "Gender and Characterization in the 'Palmah' Narrative Fiction," Esther Fuchs, "The Existententialism of Jewish Christian Relations after the Holocaust - Arnold Wesker's 'The Merchant,'" Efraim Sicher. Articles in the Hebrew section are "On the Authenticity of the Explicit Debates of Bet Shammai and Bet Hillel," Mosheh Weiss, "Ancient Redactions in the Babylonian Talmud," David Rosenthal, "The Tendency Towards Units of Style and its Influence on the Textual Readings of the Babylonian Talmud," Noah Aminoah, "'Halacha le-Moshe mi-Sinai' - History or Theology?" Shmuel Safrai, "Concerning Prohibition against Gentile Bread," Zvia A Steinfeld, "Opening Formulas of the Darshanic Stories in Genesis Rabba," Ofra Meir, "An Exegetical Midrash on Numbers in Midrash Tanhuma," Margarete Schlüter, "Textual Witness of the Tanhuma-Yelamdenu Midrashim," Marc Bregman, "On the Character of Late Midrashic Literature," Jacob Elbaum, "Festive Titles in Liturgical Terminology," Stefan Reif, "Excerpts of Geonic Responsa in Rabbinic Treaties and Manuscripts," Neil Danzig, "The Extent of Liability of Negligence," Naphtali Lipschüts, "The Delimitation of Hekhalot Literature," Peter Schäfer, "Periodization of the History of Jewish Mysticism," Joseph Dan, "The Polemic on the 'Zohar' in Italy," Moshe Hallamish, "Kabbalah and Hassidism - Continuation or Change?" Rachel Elior, "The Inaccurate Metre in the Hebrew Liturgical Poetry in Spain," Zeev Breuer, "Poetical Manifestations of Spirit and Body in Abraham Ibn-Ezra's 'Tochechot,'" Masha Itzhaki, "The Poetry of Todros Abulafia - Decline or Renewal?" Aviva Doron, "Solomon Ibn-Gabirol's Influence on Biailik," Sara Katz, "Johannes Clai's Hebrew Prosody," Zvi Malachi, "Abraham Khalfon of Tripoli - An Historian and Poet," Michal Saraf, "The 'Halleot' in Yemenite Hebrew Poetry," Michael Maswari-Caspie, "Hebrew Versions of Classical Humor," Eisig Silberschlag, "The Sacrifice of Isaac in Modern Jewish and General Philosophy," Ze'ev Levy, "The Concept of 'Mitzva' in Jospeh Carlebach's Thought," Miriam Gilles-Carlecach, "R. Joseph Carlebach and His Thought," Pinchas Rosenblüth, "The Relationship between Franz Rosenzweig and Gershom Scholem," Michael Brocke, "Religious Disputation in Hebrew Halakhah Literature (Isaac Satanow's 'Divrei Rovot')," Moshe Pelli, "Shlomo Levinsohn's System of Exegesis in 'Melitzat Yeshurun,'" Tova Cohen, "Egypt in Hebrew Haskalah Literature - The Plague of the Frog," Naomi Zohar, "Natural Descriptions in 'Sefer Toldot Hateva (S.I. Abramovits) and in Mendele Mocher Seforims' Writings," Shalom Luria, "The Hebrew 'Briefsteller,'" Judith Zwick, "Translations from French in Kokhavay Yitzhaq,'" Janine Strauss, "The Impact of Nacman Krochmal on the Development of the Zionist Movement," Abraham I. Katsh, "The Educational Concept of 'ha-Me'assef,'" Tesemah Tsamriyon, "'Hochmat Israel' in Hebrew Periodicals (1881-1896)," Menucha Gilboa, "'The Jew' edited by Suwalski (1897-1913)," Risa Domb, "In Praise of the Genre - Brenner Developer of the Eretz-Israel Genre," Nurit Govrin, "The Trilogy 'Ad Yerushalim' by A. Reuveni as a Turning Point in the Hebrew Narrative at the Beginning of the Century," Igal Schwartz, "Berdyczewski as a Critic of Contemporary Hebrew Literature," Avner Holtzman, "Nationalism and Universality - The Hebrew Story in the '30s," Nurith Gertz, "Yitzhak Lamdan as Editor of 'Gilyonot,'" Haya Hoffman, "The Doctor's Dilemma - A Reinterpretation of Agnon's 'The Doctor's Divorcee,'" Miri Kubovy-Manor, "The Quixotism in Agnon's World View - 'Hakhnassat Kala,'" Nancy Rozenchan, "'Ad Hena' - A War Story or an Agnonian Story?" Nitza Fruchtman Ben-Dov, "The System of Images in the Work of Haim Hazaz," Ya'acov Bahat, "Bilingual Children's Authors," Urile Ofek, "The Dynamics of Narrative Genres in a Declining Literary Cantre (Poland between the World Wars)," Hana Hever, "The Jewish Shtetl in Galicia in the Trilogy of Julian Stzyjkowski," Ruth Shenfeld, "The Attitude to Zionism in the Works of Marcel Proust," Juliette Hassine, "Hayyim Lensky - A Master of the Hebrew Balad in a Strange Land," Schlomo Yaniv, "The Attack of the Young Modernistic Authors of the Tel Aviv Circle in the Late Poems of Bialik," Ziva Shamir, "Myths - Their Structures and Meanings in Uri Zvi Greenberg's 'Rehovot ha-Nahar,'" Baruch Link, "Self-Reference in Alterman's Poetry," Ruth Kartun-Blum, "Nathan Alterman's Notebooks as a New Source for the Study of his Life and Work," Dan Laor, "The Modern Hebrew Long Poem - Basic Features," Judith Bar-El, "European Autumn and Israeli Reality in Hebrew Poetry," Ziva Ben-Porat, "The Image of the Image of the Arab in Hebrew Literature," Gilas Rammas-Rauch, "The Early Anti-Sectarian Interpretation of 'Vayokhal Vayesht' in the Ashkenazi Kheyder," Arya Gealia, "Yiddish as a Mean of Teaching Rashi in the 12th and 13th Centuries," Joseph Bar-El, "An Unknown Song on the Frankfurst A.M. Events (1612-1616)," Chava Turniansky, "The Place of the Czarist Censorship in 'Etlekha Yor Tsurik' and in Mendele's 'Der Priziv,'" Shlomo Back, "Sholem Aleyhem's 'Der Blutiker Shpas' in the daily 'Haynt' (1912) and in Print (1915-1923)," "The IDioms from 'Tevye der Milkhiger' by Sholem Aleyhem in Five Hebrew Translations," Yosef Guri, "The Christian Motives in 'Der Tilim Yid' by Sholem Ash," Anna Dresner, "Social and Cultural Criticism in the Humoristic Writings of Der Tunkeler," Yechiel Szeintuch.
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