Zutot 2003

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.

Résumé
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.

Contenu

Folklore and Magic.- The Synagogue as a Stage for Magic.- Baba Bathra 73A-B.- The Poetical Qualities of The Apostle Peter in Jewish Folktale.- Ibn Gabirol's Ketter Malkhut.- A Judaeo-Arabic Paraphrase of Ibn Gagibrol's Ketter Malkhut.- On the Use of Hebrew Words in Parenthesis in a Yiddish Text: The Case of Keter Malkhut (Amsterdam 1673).- Philosophy and Science.- The Philosophical Background of the Andalusian Hebrew Grammar (10th Century).- Some Remarks on the Source of Maimonides' Plato in Guide of the Perplexed I.17.- On Naphtali Herz Ulman'S Biography and the Reception of His Works in the Netherlands.- New Light on the Physician Aaron Salomon Gumpertz: Medicine, Science and Early Haskalah in Berlin.- Sephardica.- El eskribano grande: Traces of Linguistic Shift among Sephardic Jews in Sevenieenth-Century Italy and the Netherlands.- A Catalan Speaker at Esnoga: Nicolau D'Oliver I Fullana (Majorca CA, 1620-the Dutch Netherlands [?] CA, 1698).- A Mid-Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of the (Unpublished) Hebrew Grammars of Menasseh ben Israel and Isaac Aboab da Fonseca Recovered.- Jewish Scenes.- The Jews of Ancient Cyprus.- Jewish Legal Autonomy in the Middle Ages: An Unchallenged Institution?.- Yiddish Vilna: A Virtual Capital of a Virtual Land?.- Second City: On Jewish Culture in Chicago.- Dutch Jewry.- 'I Know This Book of Mine Will Cause Offence?': A Yiddish Adaptation of Boccaccio's Decameron (Amsterdam 1710).- The Earliest Regulations of the Ashkenazi Community of the Hague from 1723.- An Entertaining mayse from Amsterdam 1746.- Political Participation of Dutch Jews in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, 1814-1848.- Essay.- Modern Auction Catalogues of Jewish Books: Commerce Meeting Scholarship. Some Methodological Reflections.