{"product_id":"representing-jewish-thought-proceedings-of-the-2015-institute-of-jewish-studies-conference-held-in-honour-of-professor-ada-rapoport-albert-9789004446137","title":"Representing Jewish Thought: Proceedings of the 2015 Institute of Jewish Studies Conference Held in Honour of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRepresenting 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents   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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210813432151,"sku":"9789004446137","price":120.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/representing-jewish-thought-proceedings-of-the-2015-institute-of-jewish-studies-conference-held-in-honour-of-professor-ada-rapoport-albert-9789004446137","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}