From YU: The Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies presents an international conference for Sunday and Monday, March 27-8, 2011, which will take place at Yeshiva University Museum and on our historic Washington Heights campus. The conference is titled: Talmuda de-Eretz Israel: Archaeology and the Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine. In the century since Samuel [...]
Andrew Pettegree, the author of The Book in the Renaissance, is interviewed here. (hat tip) See here for a review of the book. I wonder how the following comments of his relate to Hebrew printing. Q: What did you find most interesting of the trends that you uncovered in your study of the early book [...]
It seems as if Koren Publishing will be putting out a new edition, not a reprint of the first edition, of the very good and long out-of-print Steinsaltz Reference Guide to Talmud in the Spring of 2011. (hat tip)
Roni Weinstein is interviewed here (Hebrew) about the 17th c. Italian sex and marriage manual Tiferet Ḥatanim. Weinstein, the author of Marriage Rituals Italian Style: A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews, thinks that Tiferet Ḥatanim may have been the first book of its kind. This Hebrew editions seems to have been preceded [...]
Jeffrey Rubenstein has published a new book, Stories of the Babylonian Talmud. Rubenstein combines a close textual and literary examination of each story with a careful comparison to earlier versions from other rabbinic compilations. This unique approach provides insight not only into the meaning and content of the current forms of the stories but also [...]
Two friends have recently published books and I wanted to call your attention to them. Job Y. Jiindo’s Biblical Metaphor Reconsidered: A Cognitive Approach to Poetic Prophecy in Jeremiah 1-24 (Harvard Semitic Monographs) has just been published. Closer to our time, Rebecca Kobrin’s Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora is now on the shelf. Congratulations to [...]
In Tablet Adam Kirsch reviews David Ruderman’s new book Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History.
I just got a few new books that have recently (one not so recently) been printed in Israel. Thanks to my parents and the mail, here are a few of the new books on my shelf. 1. Admiel Kosman, מסכת נשים. This is the companion volume to Kosman’s study of midrashim and legends about men [...]
Zondervan has published the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary Set: Old Testament. A review of it can be found here. A sample text can be found here. Below is a description. Many today find the Old Testament a closed book. The cultural issues seem insurmountable and we are easily baffled by that which seems obscure. [...]
A while back I posted about the success of Avigdor Shinan’s commentary on Pirkei Avot and its place on the non-fiction best seller list in Israel. I was reading an op-ed piece in Yisrael ha-Yom and it turns out that Pirkei Avot has been overtaken by the new translation of Josephus’s Wars of the Jews. [...]
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