List of Contributors
Note on Transliteration
Introduction - Talya Fishman
Part I. Identity Claims
1. The Emergence of the Medieval
Jewish Diaspora(s) of Europe from the Ninth to the Twelfth
Centuries, with Some Thoughts on Historical DNA Studies
- Michael Toch
2. Medieval Jewish Legends on the Decline of the Babylonian Centre
and the Primacy of Other Geographical Centres - Avraham
Grossman
Part II. The Impact of Non-Jewish Cultures on Regional
Traditions
3. The Sacrifice of the Souls of the Righteous
upon the Heavenly Altar: Transformations of Apocalyptic Traditions
in Medieval Ashkenaz - Paul Mandel
4. The Bifurcated Legacy of Rabbi Moses Hadarshan and the Rise of
Peshat Exegesis in Medieval France - Hananel Mack
5. A New Look at Medieval Jewish Exegetical Constructions of Peshat
in Christian and Muslim Lands: Rashbam and Maimonides
- Mordechai Z. Cohen
6. The ‘Our Talmud’ Tradition and the Predilection for Works of
Applied Law in Early Sephardi Rabbinic Culture - Talya
Fishman
Part III. Geopolitical Boundaries and Their Impact on Jewish
Regional Identities
7. From Germany to Northern France and
Back Again: A Tale of Two Tosafist Centres - Ephraim
Kanarfogel
8. Rabbinic Politics, Royal Conquest, and the Creation of a
Halakhic Tradition in Medieval Provence - Pinchas Roth
9. Mediterranean Regionalism in Hebrew Panegyric Poetry
- Jonathan Decter
10. Framings of Sephardi Identity in Ashkenazi Prayer Books
- Elisabeth Hollender
11. Minhag and Migration: Yiddish Custom Books from
Sixteenth-Century Italy - Lucia Raspe
Part IV. Cultural Content as a Marker of Jewish Regional
Identities
12. A Collection of Jewish Philosophical Prayers
- Y. Tzvi Langermann
13. Prophets and Their Impact in the High Middle Ages: A Subculture
of Franco-German Jewry - Moshe Idel
Index
Javier Castaño is a research fellow in Jewish history at the
Spanish National Scientific Research Council in Madrid. He is a
former editor of the journal 'Sefarad'. Talya Fishman is Associate
Professor of Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History of the
Medieval and Early Modern Periods at the University of
Pennsylvania. She is the author of 'Becoming the People of the
Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish
Cultures' (2013). Ephraim Kanarfogel is E. Billi Ivry University
Professor of Jewish History, Literature and Law at Bernard Revel
Graduate School of Jewish Studies,
Yeshiva University. He is a leading expert in the fields of
medieval Jewish history and rabbinic literature, an ordained rabbi
and Torah scholar and the author
of numerous books, including Between Rashi and Maimonides: Studies
in Medieval Jewish Thought, Literature, and Exegesis (2010).
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