Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture

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1 Zutot 2003

2 Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture Editors: Shlomo Berger Michael Brocke Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut an Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany Irene Zwiep Advisory Board: Gad Freudenthal (CNRS, Paris) Lewis Glinert (Dartmouth College, Hanover NH) Steven Harvey (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan) Pieter W. van der Horst (Universiteit Utrecht) Yosef Kaplan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ada Rapoport-Albert (University College London) Angel Sáenz-Badillos (Universidad Complutense, Madrid) Karel van der Toorn (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Christian Wiese (Universität Erfurt) VOLUME 3

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5 Zutot 2003: contents Folklore and Magic 8 Mock, L., The Synagogue as a Stage for Magic 15 Jacobson, H., Baba Bathra 73a-b 16 Bekkum, W.J., The Poetical Qualities of the Apostle Peter in Jewish Folktale Ibn Gabirol s Keter Malkhut 28 Langermann, Y.T., A Judaeo-Arabic Paraphrase of Ibn Gabirol s Keter Malkhut 34 Berger, S.Z., On the Use of Hebrew Words in Parenthesis in a Yiddish Text: the Case of Keter Malkhut (Amsterdam 1673) Philosophy and Science 42 Martínez Delgado, J., The Philosophical Background of the Andalusian Hebrew Grammar (10th Century) 49 Robinson, J.T., Some Remarks on the Source of Maimonides Plato in Guide of the Perplexed I Lieburg, F.A. van, On Naphtali Herz Ulman s Biography and the Reception of His Works in The Netherlands 66 Freudenthal, G., New Light on the Physician Aaron Salomon Gumpertz: Medicine, Science and Early Haskalah in Berlin Sephardica 80 Arnold, R., El eskribano grande: Traces of Linguistic Shift among Sephardic Jews in Seventeenth-Century Italy and the Netherlands 87 Brown, K., A Catalan Speaker at Esnoga: Nicolau d Oliver i Fullana (Majorca ca The Dutch Netherlands [?] ca. 1698) 98 Offenberg, A.K., A Mid-Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of the (Unpublished) Hebrew Grammars of Menasseh ben Israel and Isaac Aboab da Fonseca Recovered 5

6 Zutot 2003 Jewish scenes 110 Horst, P.W. van der, The Jews of Ancient Cyprus 121 Klein, B.E., Jewish Legal Autonomy in the Middle Ages: an Unchallenged Institution? 135 Estraikh, G., Yiddish Vilna: A Virtual Capital of a Virtual Land? 142 Schwarz, J., Second City: on Jewish Culture in Chicago Dutch Jewry 152 Aptroot, M., I know this book of mine will cause offence... : A Yiddish Adaptation of Boccaccio s Decameron (Amsterdam 1710) 160 Litt, S., The Earliest Regulations of the Ashkenazi Community of The Hague from Butzer, E., An Entertaining mayse from Amsterdam Wallet, B., Political Participation of Dutch Jews in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century, Essay 180 Schrijver, E.G.L., Modern Auction Catalogues of Jewish Books: Commerce Meeting Scholarship. Some Methodological Reflections 6