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jewish studies Leibniz und das Judentum edited by Daniel J Cook, Hartmut Randolph and Christoph Schulte Leibniz was interested in Jews and Judaism not only within the framework of his philosophy, but also within his studies as a lawyer, librarian, ecumenical theologian, and on a personal basis as resident of Hannover. However, research has so far neglected his attitude towards Judaism and its expression in Jewish religion, the Kabbala, the Hebrew Bible, the Rabbinic tradition, and even his Jewish contemporaries, their works and their legal status. This volume closes the gap by presenting the results of an international conference in Potsdam, where notable Leibniz scholars discussed his attitudes towards Jews and Judaism and studied them from a variety of perspectives. 283p, 6 col & 1 b/w illus, paperback, 9783515092517, $63.00(s), Franz Steiner Verlag, December 2008, Sonderhefte Studia Leibnitiana 34. 94 Imagining Jewish Art Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj by Aaron Rosen What does Jewish art look like? Where many scholars, critics, and curators have gone searching for the essence of Jewish art in Biblical illustrations and portraits of Rabbis, Rosen sets out to discover Jewishness in unlikely places. How, he asks, have modern Jewish painters explored their Jewish identity using an artistic past which is – by and large – non-Jewish? In this new book, we encounter some of the great works of Western art history through Jewish eyes. We see Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece re-imagined by Marc Chagall (1887– 1985), traces of Paolo Uccello and Piero della Francesca in Philip Guston (1913–1980), and images by Diego Velázquez and Paul Cézanne studiously reworked by R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007). This study draws on theological, philosophical and literary sources from Franz Rosenzweig to Franz Kafka and Philip Roth. 200p, hardback, 9781906540548, $89.50, Maney Publishing, July 2009, Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 16. Autochthonous Texts in the Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Tiberias by Aharon Geva-Kleinberger The soul of this book is not just linguistic. The author creates an innovative approach, combining language with anthropology and history, which will serve a medley of researchers in interdisciplinary fields. The texts introduce the long and rich inheritance of the Arabic-speaking Jews of Tiberias. They have lived there for centuries with only brief interruptions, and have spoken Arabic as their mother tongue. The author continues here his research on other communities in Galilee where Arabic has been spoken by Jews, such as Haifa, Safed and Pqi’in. This book pays homage to these people, their heritage and language, before all sink into the limbo of forgotten things. These are the last vanishing voices, which speak out, tell tales and still breathe. Hopefully they will still serve as evidence in the future of a once glorious but dying culture, whose existence, paradoxically, may come to be doubted in future times. 236p, hardback, 9783447059343, $93.00(s), Harrassowitz Verlag, September 2009, Semitica Viva 47. Abraham Joshua Heschel Philosophy, Theology and Interreligious Dialogue edited by Stanislaw Krajewski and Adam Lipszyc This volume is devoted to the thought of one of the 20th century’s most interesting philosophers of religion. Heschel, a traditional Polish Jew who became a modern thinker, was also an impressive prophet of interreligious dialogue. The book is the fruit of a scholarly conference held in 2007 at the University of Warsaw, in Heschel’s native city, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. Given the depth and scope of his thinking, the papers gathered in the volume will be of interest not only to philosophers, theologians, and scholars of Heschel, but also to those who know little about Heschel but are interested in the fundamental problems that appear at the borders between philosophy and theology, religion and modernity, Judaism and Christianity, and, more broadly, problems of interfaith relations and their future. 228p, hardback, 9783447059206, $87.00(s), Harrassowitz Verlag, October 2009, Jüdische Kultur 21. The David Brown Book Company – Fall 2009
Peeters Publishers Covering the Moon An Introduction to Middle Eastern Face Veils by G Vogelsang-Eastwood and W Vogelsang The subject of veiling and face veil is one of the most controversial topics in the media and the public domain today. Most people, especially politicians and journalists in both Muslim and non-Muslim societies, seem to have a strong opinion about it. Many books and articles have been written about the question as to why women wear a face veil and whether or not it represents a form of oppression. In contrast, there is very little information about the veils themselves, the various types and the regional variations. This volume describes and illustrates the history of the face veil, from its pre-Islamic origins to the present day. It tells about the many regional variations, from Morocco in the far west to Central Asia in the northeast. It emphasizes the role of face veils as a form of dress and identity, rather than a garment that conceals an individual’s persona. 247p, hardback, 9789042919907, $113.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008. Mémoire et propagande à l’époque timouride by M Bernardini This volume inquires into the manipulation of the historical memory of the figure of Timur-e Lang (Tamerlane, ca. 1330–1405), and into the uses that power-holders made of it through political propaganda in Central Asia and Iran during the 15th century, in the Timurid empire. Following up on Persian sources, the author analyses the discourse of chroniclers at Timur’s court, and examines how historians of his time constructed the sovereign’s virtuous origins. Interest is shown in this figure’s reflection in historico-literary texts, in particular in the epic transposition of the historiographical tradition. On Timur’s tracks from Central Asia to the Ottoman Empire in the West and deep into India in the East, the sources build up two contrasting images of the conqueror and his actions: as a virtuous ruler and fighter for the Faith, on the one hand, and, on the other, as a destructive war lord and demonic being. This memory, manipulated for ideological purposes, has become a lasting part of the historical discourse formulated in later centuries. French text. 164p, paperback, 9782910640231, $51.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008, Cahiers de Studia Iranica 37. Les intérêts culturels français dans l’Empire ottoman finissant L’enseignement laïque et en partenariat by J Thobie The diffusion of its language was a major tool for French imperialism in the Ottoman empire at the beginning of the twentieth century, and religious and secular organizations cooperated in establishing French-language educational institutions throughout the Middle East, despite anticlerical strife in France. French text. 461p, paperback, 9789042920767, $102.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2009, Collection Turcica 16. middle eastern studies The Herbedestan and Nerangestan Vol IV: Nerangestan, Fragard 3 by D F M Kotwal and P G Kreyenbroek The Nerangestan, the “Book of Ritual Directions”, follows the Herbedestan in the manuscripts but is in fact a separate text, dealing with matters of ritual where the Herbedestan is mainly concerned with religious education. Both texts belong to the learned tradition of Zoroastrianism, and the lengthy passages of Pahlavi commentary are often more illuminating than the terse Avestan sentences. Still, few parts of the text make easy reading; most Western Iranists have at best a passing acquaintance with the various Zoroastrian rituals, while the Nerangestan was intended to elucidate points which seemed obscure even to the practicing priests of its time. The Second Fragard of the Nerangestan is based on the Teachings of Sosans, but was probably written down in its present form several generations after this great Commentator. It is by far the longest extant chapter of the text, and the wealth of information it contains affords new insights into several aspects of the religious and ritual life of the Zoroastrian community. 125p, paperback, 9782910640248, $29.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2009, Cahiers de Studia Iranica 38. Moyen arabe et variétés mixtes de l’arabe à travers l’histoire Actes du Premier Colloque International (Louvain-la-Neuve, 10–14 mai 2004) edited by J Lentin and J Grand’Henry This volume contains the contributions to a conference on Middle Arabic and mixed varieties of the Arabic language through history. French text. 508p, paperback, 9789042921030, $116.00, Peeters Publishers, December 2008, Publications de l’Institut Orientaliste de Louvain 58. www.dbbconline.com 95
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jewish studies<br />
Leibniz und das Judentum<br />
edited by Daniel J Cook, Hartmut Randolph<br />
and Christoph Schulte<br />
Leibniz was interested<br />
in Jews and Judaism not<br />
only within the framework<br />
of his philosophy,<br />
but also within his studies<br />
as a lawyer, librarian,<br />
ecumenical theologian,<br />
and on a personal basis<br />
as resident of Hannover.<br />
However, research has so<br />
far neglected his attitude<br />
towards Judaism and its<br />
expression in Jewish religion, the Kabbala, the Hebrew Bible,<br />
the Rabbinic tradition, and even his Jewish contemporaries,<br />
their works and their legal status. This volume closes the<br />
gap by presenting the results of an international conference<br />
in Potsdam, where notable Leibniz scholars discussed his attitudes<br />
towards Jews and Judaism and studied them from a<br />
variety of perspectives.<br />
283p, 6 col & 1 b/w illus, paperback, 9783515092517, $63.00(s),<br />
Franz Steiner Verlag, December 2008,<br />
Sonderhefte Studia Leibnitiana 34.<br />
94<br />
Imagining Jewish Art<br />
Encounters with the Masters in Chagall,<br />
Guston, and Kitaj<br />
by Aaron Rosen<br />
What does Jewish art look like? Where many scholars, critics,<br />
and curators have gone searching for the essence of Jewish art<br />
in Biblical illustrations and portraits of Rabbis, Rosen sets out to<br />
discover Jewishness in unlikely places. How, he asks, have modern<br />
Jewish painters explored their Jewish identity using an artistic<br />
past which is – by and large – non-Jewish? In this new book, we<br />
encounter some of the great works of Western art history through<br />
Jewish eyes. We see Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece re-imagined by Marc Chagall (1887–<br />
1985), traces of Paolo Uccello and Piero della Francesca in Philip Guston (1913–1980), and images by<br />
Diego Velázquez and Paul Cézanne studiously reworked by R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007). This study draws on<br />
theological, philosophical and literary sources from Franz Rosenzweig to Franz Kafka and Philip Roth.<br />
200p, hardback, 9781906540548, $89.50, Maney Publishing, July <strong>2009</strong>,<br />
Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature 16.<br />
Autochthonous Texts in the Arabic Dialect of the Jews of Tiberias<br />
by Aharon Geva-Kleinberger<br />
The soul of this book is not just linguistic. The author creates an innovative approach, combining language<br />
with anthropology and history, which will serve a medley of researchers in interdisciplinary fields.<br />
The texts introduce the long and rich inheritance of the Arabic-speaking Jews of Tiberias. They have lived<br />
there for centuries with only brief interruptions, and have spoken Arabic as their mother tongue. The author<br />
continues here his research on other communities in Galilee where Arabic has been spoken by Jews,<br />
such as Haifa, Safed and Pqi’in. This book pays homage to these people, their heritage and language,<br />
before all sink into the limbo of forgotten things. These are the last vanishing voices, which speak out,<br />
tell tales and still breathe. Hopefully they will still serve as evidence in the future of a once glorious but<br />
dying culture, whose existence, paradoxically, may come to be doubted in future times.<br />
236p, hardback, 9783447059343, $93.00(s), Harrassowitz Verlag, September <strong>2009</strong>, Semitica Viva 47.<br />
Abraham Joshua Heschel<br />
Philosophy, Theology and Interreligious Dialogue<br />
edited by Stanislaw Krajewski and Adam Lipszyc<br />
This volume is devoted to the thought of one of the 20th century’s most interesting philosophers of<br />
religion. Heschel, a traditional Polish Jew who became a modern thinker, was also an impressive<br />
prophet of interreligious dialogue. The book is the fruit of a scholarly conference held in 2007 at the<br />
University of Warsaw, in Heschel’s native city, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth.<br />
Given the depth and scope of his thinking, the papers gathered in the volume will be of interest not<br />
only to philosophers, theologians, and scholars of Heschel, but also to those who know little about<br />
Heschel but are interested in the fundamental problems that appear at the borders between philosophy<br />
and theology, religion and modernity, Judaism and Christianity, and, more broadly, problems of<br />
interfaith relations and their future.<br />
228p, hardback, 9783447059206, $87.00(s), Harrassowitz Verlag, October <strong>2009</strong>, Jüdische Kultur 21.<br />
The David Brown Book Company – <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2009</strong>