Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture

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1 Zutot 2001

2 Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture Editors: Shlomo Berger Michael Brocke Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut, Gerhard Mercator-Universitiit, Duisburg, Germany Irene Zwiep VOLUME 1

3 ZuToT 2ooi Edited by Shlomo Berger Michael Brocke Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-lnstitut, Gerhard Mercator-Universiti:it, Duisburg, Germany Irene Zwiep... '' SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

4 A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress This publication has been realized thanks to the financial support of the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim-Institut fur deutsch-judische Geschichte in Duisburg. The editors would like to thank the Stichting Vrienden van bet Juda Palache Instituut, Helder en Wijzer, Andrea Schatz, Erik-Jan Verweij en JAPES. ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI / Printed on acid-free paper All Rights Reserved 2002 Springer Science+ Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2002 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner.

5 THE 'FORMULA' OF ZUTOT God is to be found in the detail. Many scholars of Jewish studies have quite a lot of 'leftovers' in store, stemming from wider research projects, that do not find their way into larger publications. Such 'leftovers' may possess an independent value and often deserve publication. Other scholars simply enjoy investigating minutiae, subtle details that at first sight seem unimportant and are generally overlooked by their colleagues. There are hardly any platforms, however, to publish such small scale findings. All these scholars are invited to publish their 'zuta' in our newly launched yearbook. An interdisciplinary academic publication, Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture aims to enable scholars in all fields of Jewish studies to publish short articles ( 5 to 7 pages) in their areas of expertise. The idea behind the concept of Zutot stems from the German 'Kleine Schriften' or 'Miszellen', and the editors are determined to present articles whose quality is, so to speak, inversely proportional to their length. We are looking both for the concise discussion of a problem (methodological, textual, or otherwise) in any field of study and for the presentation of newly found or hitherto neglected sources that will enhance our knowledge of a particular subject. We would also like to include succinct observations on bibliography, art and the application of social sciences to Jewish Studies, as well as on broader questions dealing with Jewish culture and its relationship to the societies that surround it. The Hebrew word 'zutot' may be interpreted either positively or negatively. We believe that such 'miniatures' may shed light on many 'big' issues that are discussed and debated in the field of Jewish culture. Articles should not be published elsewhere, nor be abbreviated versions of longer papers. All articles will be refereed by an external reader and by the editorial board. Shlomo Berger, Michael Brocke, Irene Zwiep

6 ZUTOT 2001: CONTENTS 10 Brenner A., A Note on the Root ZQN in the Hebrew Bible 14 Levy, S., Sacred Spaces in the Book of Daniel BIBLE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLD 22 Pearce, S., Contextualising Greek Chronicles 28 Geiger, J., Cleopatra the Physician 33 Mock, L., Were the Rabbis Troubled by Witches? 44 Horst, P.W. van der, Maria Alchemista, the First Female Jewish Author 48 De Lange, N., A Gold Votive Medallion in the Jewish Museum, London PIYYUT 58 Bekkum, W.-J. van, Hearing and Understanding Piyyut in the Liturgy of the Synagogue 64 Granat, Y., Intertextual Polyphony: Scriptural Presence(s) in a Piyyutim Cycle by Yoseph Ibn Abitur 77 Heide, A. van der, 'Rashi' and Early Ashkenazi Piyyut 84 Brener, A., Isaac ha-gorni and the Troubadour Persona 91 Haxen, U., The captions 'fi wazn' and 'fi lahn' in Strophic Poetry jewish THOUGHT 98 Fontaine, R., Religious Polemics in a Philosophical Encyclopedia: Judah ha-cohen on 'The Chosen People' 107 Munk, R. Athens in Jerusalem. On the Definition of Jewish Philosophy 7

7 BOOKLORE II4 II8 Offenberg, A.K., Some Remarks on the Date and Original Price of a Rare Iberian Hebrew Incunable Levy-Rubin, M. and R. Rubin, On an Unknown Appellation of Jerusalem from the Ottoman Period HISTORY I24 I33 I 38 I5J Goldish, M., Passion at the Periphery: The Contexts of a Clandestine Converso Conjunction Fuks-Mansfeld, R.G., Abraham Hayim ben Zvi Hirsh Braatbard. A Hebrew type-setter in Amsterdam in the first half of the eighteenth century Ries, R., Bridging the Gaps - Reflections on the Trial of a Court Jew and a Modern Concept of Jewish History in Germany Berkowitz, M., Viewing the Jewish Masses: Easing (?) and Interpreting Entry to the New World YIDDISH I 58 I 65 I8o Kleine, A., The pronunciation of 'Argentinean Standard Yiddish' Gruschka, R. & M. Aptroot The Manuscript Versions of Isaac Euchel's 'Reb Henokh oder vos tut me damit' Dauber, J., Some Notes on Hebraisms in the Yiddish 'Megalle Temirin' HASKALAH AND HASSIDIM I88 I96 Luit, R. van, Hassidim, Mitnaggeddim and the State in M.N. Lefin's 'Essai d'un Plan de Reforme' Meijers, D., Fact or Fiction? A Social Sciences Dissertation CoNTEMPORARY CULTURE 2IO Frieden, K., Paul de Man's 'Wartime Journalism' and the Critics 218 Niederland, D., Does Germany Follow a 'Special Path'? The Image of German History in the New Israeli Textbooks (I990-2ooo) 8