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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book examines the significant role that memory failures play in early rabbinic literature. The rabbis who shaped Judaism in late antiquity envisioned the commitment to the Torah and to its commandments as governing every single aspect of a person’s life. Their vision of a Jewish subject who must keep constant mental track of multiple obligations and teachings led them to be very preoccupied with forgetting: forgetting of tasks, forgetting of facts, forgetting of texts, and—most broadly—forgetting the Torah altogether. In Fractured Tablets, Mira Balberg examines the ways in which the early rabbis approached and delineated the possibility of forgetfulness in practice and study and the solutions and responses they conjured for forgetfulness, along with the ways in which they used human fallibility to bolster their vision of Jewish observance and their own roles as religious experts. In the process, Balberg shows that the rabbis’ intense preoccupation with the prospect of forgetfulness was a meaningful ideological choice, with profound implications for our understanding of Judaism in late antiquity.

Memory --- Rabbinical literature --- RELIGION / Judaism / History. --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Hebrew literature --- Jewish literature

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This book surveys Hebrew manuscripts of Aristotelian philosophy and logic. It presents a translation and revision of part of Moritz Steinschneider’s monumental Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher (The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages and the Jews as Interpreters). This resource was first published in 1893. It remains to this day the authoritative account of the transmission and development of Arabic and Latin, and, by way of those languages, Greek culture to medieval and renaissance Jews. The editors have updated Steinschneider’s bibliography. They have also judiciously revised some of his scholarly judgments. In addition, the volume provides an exhaustive listing of pertinent Hebrew manuscripts and their whereabouts. The section on logic, including texts hitherto unknown, represents the latest research in the history of medieval logic in Hebrew. This publication is the second in a series of volumes that translates, updates, and, where necessary, revises parts of Steinschneider’s bio-bibliographical classic work on Hebrew manuscripts of philosophical encyclopedias, manuals, and logical writings. Historians of medieval culture and philosophy, and also scholars of the transmission of classical culture to Muslims, Christians, and Jews, will find this volume indispensable.

Jewish literature. --- Jews --- Judaica --- Hebrew literature --- Literature --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Science --- Judaism. --- Medieval Philosophy. --- History of Science. --- History. --- Religions --- Semites --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Religion

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De Moshé Smilanski à Amos Oz ou David Grossman de la diaspora aux années 1980, comment les écrivains israéliens ont-ils perçu l’Arabe palestinien, entre personnage réel et personnage de fiction ? Comment est-il décrit ou désigné ? De quelle manière s’exprime-t-il ? Comment s’insère-t-il dans la narration ? Certaines scènes, telle la rencontre, paraissent typiques de ce voisinage à la fois familier et inquiétant. Ce personnage a-t-il connu une certaine évolution ? Avant 1948, le personnage du bédouin, noble et puissant, adapté à un environnement difficile à saisir par le pionnier juif d’origine européenne, fait figure de modèle. Cette image positive, inspirée du bon sauvage, fait place, après la création de l’État d’Israël, à un traitement contrasté. C’est dans les années 1970 que le personnage prend plus de relief et s’individualise peu à peu. Les années 1980 représentent un véritable tournant : des auteurs tentent de reproduire une réalité arabe dans laquelle le personnage juif occupe une place périphérique. Cette évolution témoigne d’un renversement de points de vue lié aux événements historiques, et contribue peut-être, comme en témoigne la réédition de nouvelles rédigées dans les années 1950 et ne s’inscrivant pas dans une perspective sioniste, à une réévaluation de la littérature israélienne.

Israëlische-Arabische betrekkingen in de literatuur --- Jewish-Arab relations in literature --- Palestijnen in de literatuur --- Palestinian Arabs in literature --- Palestiniens dans la littérature --- Relations israelo-arabes dans la littérature --- Hebrew literature, Modern --- Littérature hébraïque moderne --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature hébraïque moderne --- Palestiniens dans la littérature --- Hebrew literature [Modern ] --- 20th century --- Palestinian Arabs in literature. --- Jewish-Arab relations in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Israël --- bédouin --- noble sauvage --- littérature --- littérature hébraïque

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For more than thirty years, Prooftexts has provided a forum for the growing field of Jewish literary studies. Integral to its mission is an attempt to bring together the study of modern Jewish literatures (in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages) with the literary study of the Jewish classical tradition as a whole. Since its inception, the journal has as much stimulated and created the field of Jewish literary studies as it has reflected its achievements.

Sociology of minorities --- Literature --- Hebrew literature --- Yiddish literature --- Jewish literature --- Littérature hébraïque --- Littérature yiddish --- Littérature juive --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Hebrew literature. --- Jewish literature. --- Yiddish literature. --- Bible. --- Arts and Humanities --- Information Technology --- Life Sciences --- History --- Language & Linguistics --- Computational Biosciences --- Information Science and Systems --- Jews --- Judaica --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Jewish Literature. --- minderheden --- Bible --- Palaia Diathēk

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Looking Back at al-Andalus focuses on Arabic and Hebrew Literature that expresses the loss of al-Andalus from multiple vantage points. In doing so, this book examines the definition of al-Andalus’ literary borders, the reconstruction of which navigates between traditional generic formulations and actual political, military and cultural challenges. By looking at a variety of genres, the book shows that literature aiming to recall and define al-Andalus expresses a series of symbolic literary objects more than a geographic and political entity fixed in a single time and place. Looking Back at al-Andalus offers a unique examination into the role of memory, language, and subjectivity in presenting a series of interpretations of what al-Andalus represented to different writers at different historical-cultural moments.

Arabic literature --- Hebrew literature --- Nostalgia in literature. --- Littérature arabe --- Littérature hébraïque --- Nostalgie dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Andalusia (Spain) --- Andalousie (Espagne) dans la littérature --- In literature. --- Nostalgia in literature --- History and criticism