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PAVIE, Nadine France Hebrew University Zamora s Hebrew Grammar Introductiones Artis Grammaticae Hebraicae: His Linguistic Conception Relative to His Sources and in Comparison to Other Grammars of the 16 th Century RONESS, Yitzchak Israel Bar Ilan University The Halakhic Legaacy of Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli ROSEN-ZVI, Assaf Israel Hebrew University Mekhilta de-rabbi Ishmael, Masekhta de-kaspa: Text and Commentary, Redaction, Midrashic Terminology and Hermeneutic ROSKIES, Jennifer Israel/Canada Bar Ilan University In Their Own Words: The Multiple Identities of Jewish Academic Women SHARABI, Yosef Israel Bar Ilan University Domestic Peace: Juridical Intervention in Resolving And Preventing Marital Crises in Jewish and Israeli Law STEIMANN, Ilona Israel Hebrew University Hebrew Illuminated Manuscript from the Collection of the German Humanist Hartmann Schedel TEPLITSKY, Joshua Canada New York University Between Court Jew and Jewish Court: David Oppenheim And the Political Culture of Early Modern Prague TEREM, Shulamit Israel Bar Ilan University Jerusalem and Judaea in the First and Early Second Centuries C.E.: Continuity and Change in the Ceramic Culture and its Implications for Clarifying Settlement History
TULING, Kari USA Hebrew Union College Between Maimonides and Kant: Herman Cohen s Religion of Reason TWOREK, Wojciech Poland University College The Experience of Time in the Writings of R. Shneur Zalman of Liadi WALTER, Shai Israel Bar Ilan University Calendrical Reality and Astronomical Knowledge in Sanctification of the New Moon Issues WEISS, Rachel USA University of Minnesota Lakhn Mit Farfel: The Politics of Irony in Early Yiddish Language Film in America YAAKOV, Doron Israel Hebrew University The Hebrew Language of the Jews of Southern Yemen: Phonetics and Morphology of the Noun in the Mishna YANOVSKY, Sara Israel/Austria Hebrew University Facing the Challenge of Jewish Education in the Metropolis: A Comparative Study of the Jewish Communal Organizations of Budapest and Vienna, From 1867 until World War II