Date: Thu, 16 Mar, 1989 21:15 IST From: Yechiel Greenbaum Subject: Seventh issue of newsletter To: 15 Mar 89 JUDAIC STUDIES #7 8 AdarII 49 BS"D Connecting geographically & otherwise disparate groups with a common interest in the study of Judaica. Edited by Y. Greenbaum CONTENTS 1) Events 2) Book Fair 3) Compact Disks 4) Focusing the Hebrew Discussion 1) Events 15 Mar 20:00 Schocken Institute for Jewish Research (affiliate, JTS) 6 Balfour St., Jerusalem 92102 Speaker: Prof. S. Z. Havlin Hundredth Anniversary of the Author of the Dikdukei Sofrim Display: Prints of the Talmud in the Schocken Library 17 Mar 10:00 Yad Ben Zvi Speaker: Prof. Yehudah Liebes Chair: Prof. Joseph Dan The Messianism of the Sabbateans 2) Book Fair For me, the Fair serves two purposes. It contains a wealth of general catalogs (new publications take a while to float over here, even e.g., BIP) and encourages publishers to create lists of whatever material might be relevant to JS. I found everything from the forthcoming english edition of Even-Shoshan's A New Concordance of the Old Testament (it should reach the US in a month- Baker Book, POB 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516 Tel 800-253- 7283) to Yehoshua Perez's The Sayings of God (Apocalypse Press, POB 31260, Central Post Office, Jerusalem 91311) which collects all of the citations of the Pentateuch in His name. What follows is a necessarily eclectic listing taken from the literature which I collected, emphasizing '89 or "in press" items. (The Fair itself produces a map, a 4p Jerfair News, a Fair Diary, a 15 NIS catalog and, indirectly, a Special Judaica issue of AB Bookman's Weekly- this year, 27 Feb. See esp. pp. 904-7 for a description of the current exhibit of the Valmadonna Trust Library of London at the Pierpont-Morgan Library in NY, as well as p. 900 for an announcement of an Auction of American Judaica 1722-1921 on 7 May at the Omni Park Central Hotel, 7 Av & 56 St, NY.- for information, and a $12.50 catalog, call Diana Herzog at R.M. Smythe & Co., Inc., 26 Broadway, New York, NY, 10004, tel 212-943-1880 or 800-622-1880. There is also a Spinoza Conference run "in conjunction with the Fair" by the Jerusalem Spinoza Institute and the S. H. Bergman Center for Philo- sophical Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Its theme is "The Human Mind and the Theory of Knowledge". Here we bring up the question of establishing the 'bounds' of JS. Recent lectures on the relationship of National Socialism to Math and to Medicine also brought this to mind.) It is noteworthy that many presses now consider JS a separate discipline which merits its own pamphlet, thin and meager as it may be. (All titles forthcoming, unless otherwise stated. L will indicate Pounds Sterling.) Can't contact a publisher? Remember to look in a current Publisher's International Directory, Books in Print, British BIP, and so forth. Cambridge UP: Customer Service Department, The Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK US: 800-227-0247,872-7423 Israel: Rodney Franklin (5 Karl Netter St.) POB 37727 Tel Aviv 61376 Tel 288948, 297322 Morag, Vocalized Talmudic Manuscripts in Cambridge Genizah Collections Volume 1 L60 OUP: OUP Bookshop FREEPOST (from within UK, no stamp) 116 High Street, Oxford OX1 4BR, UK Tel (0865) 56767 In the US: OUP Inc., 200 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Tel 800-451-7556 The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization ("further... Oxford titles in Jewish Studies, write to Acedemic Pub- licity, OUP, Walton St, Oxford OX2 6DP") Kaplan, Yosef, From Christianity to Judaism, The Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro (Apr) L45 Wistrich, Robert S., The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph (Jun) L45 Bashan, Eliezer, Economic Life of the Jews in the Balkans and Anatolia 1453-1600 (Apr) L27.50 Translations of R. Bonfil, Rabbis and Jewish Communities in Renais- sance Italy (Jul- L37.50) and of I. Tishby, The Wisdom of the Zohar (Mar- L120) Forthcoming, no date- Near, Henry, The Kibbutz Kraemer, Joel L. Ed., Perspectives on Maimonides Basil Blackwell: 108 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF Tel (0865) 791100 Announces a new series edited by David Sorkin called "Jewish Society and Culture", to include a collection of "Jewish Communities of the Modern World". Two '89 titles- Abramson, Glenda, Ed., The Blackwell Companion to Jewish Culture From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Oxford Centre for Hebrew Studies) L35 Malino, Frances and Sorkin, David, Eds., From East to West, Jews in a Changing Europe L30 JPS: 1930 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103-4599 Tel 215-564-5925 60 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10165 Tel 212-687-0809 24 Ben Maimon Street, Jerusalem Tel 690579 Distributes at a discount for Yale (as in Code of Maimonides), Harvard (lots of Wolfson) and Princeton (The Autobiography of a Seventeenth- Century Venetian Rabbi, Leon Modena's Life of Judah, Translated and Edited by Mark R. Cohen with introductory essays by... historical notes by... '88 paper $13.45)... the discount is only above a minimum. Segal, Lester A., Historical Consciousness and Religious Tradition in Azariah De'Rossi's Me'or Einayim (Dec 88) $22.95 AAUP: American association of University Presses, Inc. 1 Park Ave - Room 1103, NYC, NY 10016 (Wayne State UP listed separately, following the Open University.) Roland, Joan G., Jews in British India, Identity in a Colonial Era, UP of New England, 17 1/2 Lebanon St., Hanover NH 03755 $40 ('89) (Reminds me of a different title- Isenberg, Shirley Berry, India's Bene Israel, '88- in US, Judah L. Magnes Museum, 2911 Russell St., Berkley, CA 94705) Everyman's University, Israel's Open University, 330 West 58 Street, Suite 6P, New York, NY 10019, is preparing courses in JS, in english and/or spanish, in the following areas: Holocaust, Jerusalem, Jewish Law, Kibbutz Society, and East European Jewish Heritage. Wayne State UP, 5959 Woodward Ave., Detroit, Michigan 48202, announces two new series: 1) under the auspices of the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, and the General Editorship of Dr. David Patterson, Hebrew Literature in Translation and Critical Studies in Hebrew Literature (post-Enlightenment, i.e. from 1780) 2) under the joint sponsorship of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and the Center for the Study of the American Jewish Experience of the HUC-JIR of Cincinnati, and the General Editorship of Prof. Moshe Davis and Prof. Jonathan Sarna, respectively, American - Holy Land Studies, dealing with "relationships [of all sorts] between Americans [again, of all sorts]... and the Holy Land". 3) The wide range of titles of this press include a large number on Jewry in the Modern Period. Pergamon Press, Headington Hill Hall, Oxford OX3 0BW (Computer Hotline- same day service 0865-64881) Yadlin, Rivka, An Arrogant Oppressive Spirit, Anti-Zionism as Anti- Judaism in Egypt (Jun) approx $25, not for sale in Arab League coun- tries. Central Bureau of Statistics, Office of the Prime Minister, Kiryat Romema, Jerusalem unearths, for example, 721. Internal Migration of Jews in Israel, 1978-1980 (24 NIS) 678,712. Students in Universities: Studies, Employment, and Sources of Income (2x 11.50 NIS) Society for the Protection of Historical Monuments, The Citizens' Committee for the Protection of Jewish Cemeteries and Cultural Monuments in Poland, 00-842 Warszawa, ul. Lucka 1/3/5. "...cooperates with the Jewish Historical Institute and Religious Union of the Mosaic Faith and itas local branches... collaborates with the Committeefor the Protection of Monuments of Jewish Culture formed in Cracow as a subsidiary of the Friends of Cracow's History and Monuments, with the Clubs of Catholic Intelligentsia, the Society Tourism, and others... noteworthy were lectures by M. Krajewska "On the symbolism of gravestones" and by M. and K. Piechotka "On syna- gogues in stone and brick" [there are a few books on wooden syna- gogues]... Members... have collected important data... a register... been formed." [cf. The River Remembers, passim] Ghetto Fighters House, Kibbutz Lohamei Haghetaot, D.N. Asherat, 25220 or American Friends of Ghetto Fighters House, c/o Dr. Robert Webber, 765 Queen Anne Rd., Teaneck, NJ 07666, runs a Documentation Center and Museum of the Holocaust and Resistance (local bus 271 from Haifa). The Archives contain over 30,000 pictures, the Library over 30,000 volumes. A Study Center for the Research and Teaching of Jewish Resistance, and a Children's Memorial, are planned. In addition to GFH publishes in Hebrew, English, Russian, French and Italian. Jointly with the U of Haifa, they'vre established The Institute for the Research of the Holocaust Period. They also support the Janusz Korczak Association of Israel (travelling exhibitions... research and publication). The Zalman Shazar Center (22 Rashba St.), POB 4179, Jerusalem 91041. Tel 669464, 637171. In addition to publications and SZ's Lirary, the Center sponsors lectures "to bring 'the latest news' in historical research to the lay public." The Jerusalem International Spinoza Institute (which we mentioned above), POB 8215, Jerusalem 9108 (Tel 221258, 224321) reminds us that Princeton UP (also mentioned above) will publish an english version of Prof Yirmiyahu Yovel's Spinoza and Other Heretics (Sep). Tel Aviv University. School of JS (28 HaNetsiv St, Tel Aviv 67015, Tel 259057) has in press Y. Levinger's HaRambam KePhilosoph ukePosek. Karpi, Daniel, BeTarbut HaRenaissance uvein Homot haGhetto, (Studies in the Jewish History in the 14-17th Centuries) ('89) 35 NIS Israel. Ministry of Defense (25 David Elazar St., HaKirya, Tel Aviv 67673, Tel 205612,206292) distributes the complete Demjanjuk decision for 79.50 NIS, as well as a wide range of materials rich in such names as Adin Steinzalz, Amos Funkenstein, Sholom Rosenberg and Yeshayahu Leibowitz. Yad Ben Zvi (POB 7660, Jerusalem 91076 Tel 639203) published recently A. Cacher, G. Fuks, A. Rappaport, eds. Yavan veRoma beEretz Yisrael- Collected Articles (35 NIS) Machon Ben Zvi (same) published recently Morag, S., Aramit b'Mesorat Teiman- Lashon haTalmud haBavli (48 NIS) Boyarin, Daniel, HaIyun haSepharadi (32 NIS) Attal, R. and Avivi, J., Registres Matrimoniaux de la Communaute Juive Portugaise de Tunis (35 NIS) Bar-Ilan UP (Ramat Gan 52100 Tel 3-531-8575,8401) Saltman, A., Kamin, Sarah, eds., Al Pi Rashi- Secundum Salomonem, (13th century latin commentary on Song of Songs) Simon, A., Sh'nei Peirushei R. Avrohom ibn Ezra l'Trei Osor, vol. 1, Hoshea, Yoel, Amos. Sperber, D., Derech Erez Zeira (Eng) Lasker, D., Sefer Bitul Ikrei haNotzrim l'R. Hasdai Crescas, R. Yosef ben Shem Tov, Trans. Toaff, E., Shwarzfuchs, S., eds., HaY'hudim vehaYam haTichon (money, banking and internatioal trade in the 17-18th centuries) (English, Italian, French and Hebrew) Shwarzfuchs, S., ed., HaY'hudim vehaMahaphecha haTsarfatit (Hebrew and French) Aden-Bayewitz, D., Common Pottery in Roman Galilee, Study of Local Trade Bar-El, Y., Sefer Pisronos Rashi (Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic, German and English) Sokoloff, M., A Dictionary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Byzantine Period Dishon, Yehudit, Hazan, A., eds., Rishonim, MiGinzei haShira vehaPiyut shel Kehilot Yisrael Baruchson, Tsiporrah, S'farim v'Kor'im (reading habits of the Italian Jews at the end of the Renaissance) Drori, Y., Rishmei Masa l'Eretz Yisrael (1097-1099) Ibn al-Arabi Schwarzschild, Y., Mehkar haHinuch haMamlachti-Dati Bar-Tikva, B., Hazan, A., Shira veHalacha (Azharot uPiyutei Halacha) JTS: Jewish Theological Seminary of America Publications Department or: Accounting Department Neve Schechter, POB 196 3080 Broadway 91001 Jerusalem New York, Ny 10027 Dimitrovsky, Haim Z., ed., Texts and Studies Analecta Judaica vol II: Roth, Joel, Sefer Mordechai on Kiddushin Rabinowitz, Mayer, Sefer Mordechai on Gittin $25 Finkelstein, Louis vols I & IV of Sifra (Spring 2x $20) Friedman, Shamma, Babylonian Talmud, Bava Metzia, Ch. IV, Critical Edition and Commentary, vol I: Text, etc. (Spring $20) vol II: Commentary (Winter $25) Hyman, Hillel, Alfasi Pesahim (Spring $25) Visotzky, Burton L., Midrash Mishle (Fall $25) Flamingo Productions, 169-171 Old Christchurch Rd, Bournemouth, Dorset Der Nister, The Family Mashber We pause here, for a moment, to allow the turbulent flood of languages to settle a bit. Our problem of finding a standard of Hebrew (you remember that, don't you?) pales in comparison to the number of languages to be waded through in researching a given topic. The following (English!) citation may be a good source of information on the problem: Egghe, L. and Rousseau, R., eds., Informetrics 87/88 (Elsevier Science Publishers B.V., 1988) pp. 301-314 Yitzhaki, Moshe, "The Language Barrier in the Humanities: Measures of Language Self-citation and Self-derivation - The Case of Biblical Studies". Essentially, ideological preferences seem to take precedence over linguistic ones; is that better (consistency of approach), or worse (narrow-mindedness)? Well, back to the ten shekels'worth of pamphlets. We resume with about ten multi-lingual items. Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature 31 Jabotinsky Rd. (POB 10051,Ramat-Gan 52001) Tel 3-752-4420 Translates and/or sponsors translation of modern hebrew literature into English German Dutch Portuguese Spanish French Hungarian Rumanian Italian Arabic Norwegian Russian Annual: Bibliography of Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation Israel Federation of Writer's Unions 6 Kaplan St., Tel Aviv Tel 253256 Eleven organizations which support Israeli writers who write in English German Hungarian Spanish Hebrew Polish Rumanian Russian Yugoslavian (and USSR) publications, both by Jewish authors (English, German and Hungarian) and the Jewish Community (Croato-Serbian), are distributed by Mladost thru Dyanon, POB 39287, Tel Aviv 61392 "Aliya" Library Books in Russian on Jewish and Israeli Topics Society for Research on Jewish Communities, Sprinzak Bldg., Givat Ram POB 4140, Jerusalem 91041 Tel 584535, 532832 The catalog lists 150 items (mostly translations, a few out of print, 17 in preparation), 11 youth items (all translations, 7 in preparation) and The Shorter Jewish Encyclopaedia in Russian (vol 5 in preparation- vol 4 was K-L... yes, I noticed that those aren't cyrillic letters) The non-translation among the "in preparation"s is Beiser, M., Jews in St. Petersburg, a history of the Jews in the capital of the Russian Empire until 1917, by a former refusnik now living in Jerusalem. Grossohaus Wegner & Co. GmbH (Conventstrasse 14) Postfach 10 25 40, D-2000, Hamburg 1 issued a hefty catalog of german-language publishers. The following, at first glance, seemed more than peripherally relevant: 1) Bleicher Verlag Postfach 10 01 23, D-7016 Gerlingen Tel (07156) 2 10 31 e.g. Faerber, Meir M. Eines Menschen Zeit. Eine Anthologie deutschsprachiger Literatur in Israel ca. DM 29,80 2) Christians Verlag, (Kleine Theaterstrasse 10) Postfach 30 10 21 2000 Hamburg 36 Tel 040/35 60 06 37 "Hamburger Beitrage zur Geschichte der deutschen Juden" by the "Institut fur" the same, there- approximately 20 titles. 3) Max Niemeyer Verlag (Pfrondorfer Strasse 4) Postfach 2140 D-7400 Tubingen Tel (07071) 8 11 04 Yiddish of all stripes, even Cuomo, Luisa, Una trduzone giudeo-romanesca del libro di Giona, (1988) DM 62 4) Acharon acharon choviv, Saur Lots of documentary sources, and such reference works as Who's Who in the World of Jewry (7th ed. 1988) DM 398 Rotter Druck und Verlag GmbH, Industriestrasse 8, D-8740 Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale Tel (0 97 71) 13 93 "Bad Neustadter Beitrage zur Geschichte und Heimatkunde Frankens" A number of holocaust titles, especially Wurzburg. Olbaum-Verlag, Henisiusstrasse 1, 8900 Augsburg Tel 08 21/ 51 09 87 Modern and Zionist items. athenaum, Savignystr. 53, D-6000 Frankfurt am Main 1 Aside from the Bulletin des Leo Baeck Instituts, we may mention a set: Juden in Deutschland vom 17. bis 20. Jahrhundert (10 Bd.) DM 128 The above in the "Judischer Verlag" pamphlet. At the end, among a list of other topics, appears "Theologie/Judaica". Hachette (adr. unclear) Diffusion France et Export, 26 rue des Focses-St. Jacques, 75005 PARIS CEDEX 06 Tel 46 33 33 70 French and French translations from nine publishers, e.g. Fayard- Hadas-Lebel, Mirelle, Flavius Josephe (Apr) Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Rehov Dizengoff 205, Tel Aviv 63115 Tel 234544 234550 "in cooperation with the Dante Alighieri Society-Jerusalem" (1 Keren Hayesod) includes a section of Israeli literature in Italian translation, and another of Italian literature in Hebrew translation, as well as a Judaica section containing three publishers & my assessment of titles: 1) Editrice La Giun tina, Via Ricasoli 26, 50122 Firenze some Holocaust titles 2) Editrice Marietti, Via Palestro 10, 16122 Genova educaton, modern history, Zionism, grammer, reference 3) Carruci Editore, Viale Trastevere 60, 00153 Roma scholarly, religious, mystic (wonder if any are all three at once) and two items "just released": Minerbi, Sergio I., Il Vaticano La Terrasanta e il Sionismo (Bompiani, 1988) Toaff, Ariel, Il Vino a la Carne, Una comunita ebreica nel Medioevo (Il Mulino, 1989) World Zionist Organization Dept for Torah Education in the Diaspora (24 Abravanel St.) POB 7044, Jerusalem 91070 Tel 632584, 637594 Contemporary, Zionist, Orthodox (usually educational) material in English, French, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish ...and Hebrew. Nechama Leibowitz, Ellinson and so forth. Rubin Mass Ltd. POB 990, Jerusalem 91009 Tel 632565 (in press 2 Jan) e.g. Sola, M.Z., Leksikon Mahshevet Yisrael- Ishim uMif'alam Florsheim, Yoel, Rashi laMikro b'Feirusho laTalmud (vol 3) Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd, (also Frank Cass & Co Ltd) Gainsborough House, 11 Gainsborough Road, London E11 1RS Tel 530-4226 Jacobs, Louis, Helping with Inquiries, An Autobiography (May L19.50) Cohen, Jeffrey M., Moments of Insight, Biblical and Contemporary Jewish Thought (L15) Mossad Bialik, (37 Pierre Koenig St., corner 2 Poalei Tzedek) POB 92, Jerusalem 91920 Tel 783554 includes: The Zionist Library The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Ben Gurion U of the Negev Publishing Misgav Yerushalayim as well as: "Dorot" Books with Dvir and Masada World Jewish Congress varia e.g. new in Jan: Kogen, M., ed., Ben Gurion vehaTanach (approx $15) Kabbalah- only Dr. Berg's center was represented, unless you count Machon Rezia (one of the publishers of Rav Kook books). Moshe Idel's seminal works appear through Yale UP and SUNY UP (see AB p. 897). For better info contact Chanaya Goodman, editor of the newsletter "Kabbalah", 41 Palyam St., Jerusalem 98790 Tel 817876 Used book dealers such as J. Biegeleisen or Elliot W. Brill advertise in AB. The only one I noticed at the Fair was John Trotter Publishers, 11 Laurel Way, London N20 8HR, Tel 445-4293. These are not necessarily the astronomically priced books of Sotheby, or even Swann, but rather good, out-of-print sources of reference. (The catalogs themselves often provide interesting overviews of the literature of a given topic, or otherwise unrecorded information.) Before ending this list, I'd like to remind the reader to order catalogs and read them, as my list was by no means exhaustive (I'll be happy if it it was at all representative). 3) Compact Disks From: KRAFT@PENNDRLS Date: Wednesday, 8 March 1989 2302-EST Subject: Biblical CD-ROM Materials If you want detailed information on the CD-ROM containing the fully vocalized and cantillated Hebrew biblical text, along with the Ancient Greek and Latin Bibles, samples of Aramaic Targums, Syriac, Coptic, Armenian -- plus two English translations and a load of other stuff, let me know. It was produced jointly by the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) and my own efforts at CCAT (Penn), and was released early in 1988 for US$25. An updated version is being planned for summer of 1990, if funding comes through. The texts were collected from a variety of sources, and put into a consistent format for convenience of software access. For serious scholars, the texts here may be more helpful than those on the ELLIS disk, although we do not have the range of commentarial and English helps that he provides. His audience is more "popular" than ours. Bob Kraft (CCAT) PS. I can also discourse on the Hebrew coding we used, and on the relative convenience of the IBYCUS System approach to multiple fonts, on screen and in print, if anyone cares. The situation for obtaining IBYCUS outside the US has improved greatly in the past few months, although that might not mean that it would be easy to get one in Israel. 4) Focusing the Hebrew Discussion From: Yitzchak GALE Date: Tue, 14 Mar 89 19:42:56 +0200 Subject: Hebrew e-mail To: Yechiel Greenbaum , Avi Feldblum , Ari Davidow Dear Yechiel, Avi, and Ari, Here is a non-technical summary of the various methods now in use for communicating texts containing Hebrew between computers. It is partly based on my recent discussions with the Israeli experts, but the opinions expressed are entirely my own. I hope it will help to focus the issues in future discussions of this topic. The types of situations in which Hebrew data is exchanged between computers can be divided into three categories which characterize the types of methods that can be used. The first type of situation is one in which it is known that all the parties involved are using the same scheme for representing Hebrew internally in their computers, e.g., all are using the same software on similar machines. Unfortunately, even in this situation a techni- cal limitation of most e-mail carriers ("7-bit ASCII" instead of "8-bit ASCII") usually makes it necessary to encode the data before it is sent and decode it after it is received. The most commonly used pair of programs used for this purpose is "uuencode" and "uudecode"; these are easily obtainable free of charge for almost any computer and are also useful for exchanging other kinds of non-text data, such as software, between computers. In the second type of situation incompatible schemes for represent- ing Hebrew are being used, but all of the communicating parties are known to each other and are willing to obtain special software. Once again an encode-decode method is used, but here the programs used must be more sophisticated. The most highly developed set of this sort of software is the one now in use on the Israeli academic computing net- work; programs are available for several types of mainframes and PCs. Ari Davidow reported in JS#6 that he is working on something similar. [A standard code for representing Hebrew (and other writing systems, and graphics) has recently been developed by the ISO in cooperation with all of the major manufacturers of computer equipment; any new software developed should use the ISO standard.] The last type of situation is one in which it is not known what kind of Hebrew capability the recipients have, if any - e.g., an elec- tronic newsletter - or in which recipients are not equipped with the software described in the previous paragraphs. In this case, a romani- zation scheme should be used that produces readable Hebrew even on the screen of someone not equipped with special software, but can be con- verted into true Hebrew or mixed text on computers that have the capa- bility. It should be stressed that this type of scheme is inferior as a general means of communicating Hebrew; its only advantage is that no software is required in order to use it. Yitzchak NEXT WEEK- Don't worry, there'll be a next week