Description
Book SynopsisRepresenting Jewish Thought originated in the conference, convened in honour of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert, on the theme of visual representations of Jewish thought from antiquity to the early modern period. The volume encompasses essays on various modes and media of transmitting and re/presenting thought, pertinent to Jewish past and present. It explores several approaches to the study of the transmission of ideas in historical sources, zooming in on textual and visual hermeneutics to material and textual culture to performative arts. The volume has brought together scholars from different subfields of Jewish Studies, covering thousands of years of Jewish history, who invite further scholarly reflection on the expression, transmission, and organisation of knowledge in Jewish contexts.
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Ada Rapoport-Albert: an Appreciation Mark Geller 1 Introduction Agata Paluch 2 “Letters of Thought” (otiyot ha-maḥshavah) and “Primordial Intellect”: from Ecstatic Kabbalah to Hasidism Moshe Idel 3 Staging Hasidism: Representation of the “Yossele Schumacher Affair” in a Hasidic Yiddish Play Vi iz Yossele? Wojciech Tworek 4 The Manuscript in Chabad: Joining Souls? Naftali Loewenthal 5 Copying, Compiling, Commonplacing in Kabbalistic Manuscript Collectanea: Sefer Ḥesheḳ and the Kabbalah of Divine Names in Early Modern Ashkenaz Agata Paluch 6 The “Munich Talmud”: an Exceptional Book of French Jews Judith Olszowy-Schlanger 7 Moral Exegesis? Hermeneutics and Exegetical Strategies in Seder Eliyahu (Zuṭa) Lennart Lehmhaus 8 Zodiacs of Heaven and Earth Helen R. Jacobus 9 Playing Hide and Seek: Is There a Jewish Way to It? Frank Alvarez-Pereyre Index
