Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: A Jewish Scholar in 19th-Century Europe
Ismar Schorsch The Vision Beyond the Books
Michael L. Miller “Your Loving Uncle”: Gideon Brecher, Moritz
Steinschneider and the Moravian Haskalah
Céline Trautmann-Waller Leopold Zunz and Moritz Steinschneider:
Wissenschaft des Judentums as a Struggle against Ghettoization in
Science
Arndt Engelhardt Moritz Steinschneider's Notions of
Encyclopedias
Irene Zwiep From Dialektik to Comparative Literature:
Steinschneider’s ‘Orientalism’
Reimund Leicht Moritz Steinschneider’s Concept of the History of
Jewish Literature
Nils Roemer Moritz Steinschneider and the Noble Dream of
Objectivity
Gad Freudenthal The Aim and Structure of Steinschneider’s Die
Hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters. The Historiographic
Underpinnings of a Masterpiece and their Untoward Consequences
Giulio Busi Steinschneider and the Irrational. A Bibliographical
Struggle against the Kabbalah
Giuseppe Veltri Steinschneider’s interstitial explanation of
magic
Part II: The Father of Hebrew Bibliography
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger Moritz Steinschneider and the Discipline
of ‘Hebrew Manuscripts Study’
Jan Just Witkam Moritz Steinschneider and the Leiden
Manuscripts
Steven Harvey and Resianne Fontaine Creating a New Literary Genre:
Steinschneider's Leiden Catalogue
Benjamin Richler Steinschneider's Manuscripts
Rachel Heuberger Aron Freimann and the Development of Jewish
Bibliography in Germany in the 20th Century
Avriel Bar-Levav A Living Citizen in a World of Dead Letters:
Steinschneider Remembered
Part III: The Study of Medieval Literature, Philosophy and
Science
Daniel J. Lasker Moritz Steinschneider and Karaite Studies
Paul B. Fenton Moritz Steinschneider's Contribution to
Judaeo-Arabic Studies
Diana Matut Steinschneider and Yiddish
Asher Salah Steinschneider and Italy
Tony Lévy Mathematik bei den Juden, cent ans après
Norman Golb Steinschneider as Historian
Part IV: Moritz Steinschneider in Contemporary Research
Charles Manekin The Genesis of Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen des
Mittelalters
Andreas Lehnardt and Elisabeth Hollender Genizat Germania. A
Projected Comprehensive Electronic Catalogue of Hebrew Fragments
Extracted from Bindings of Books or Archival Files in German
Libraries and Archives
Part V: Documents and Texts
Petra Figeac Tracing Steinschneider in the Berlin
Staatsbibliothek
Moritz Steinschneider Der Aberglaube
Reimund Leicht is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Thought and Philosophy
and History of Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He
has published extensively on philosophy, science, astrology, and
magic in ancient and medieval Judaism, and on the Christian
Hebraist and Kabbalist Johannes Reuchlin. He is the author of
Astrologumena Judaica: Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der
astrologischen Literatur der Juden (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck,
2006).
Gad Freudenthal is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at the CNRS
(Centre national de la recherche scientifique) in Paris, France
and, since 2010, a professor at the University of Geneva. He has
written on the history of science in Antiquity and in the Middle
Ages, especially in Jewish cultures. His books include: Aristotle's
Theory of Material Substance. Form and Soul, Heat and Pneuma
(Oxford, 1995), Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic
Traditions (Aldershot, 2005) and the edited volumes: Studies on
Gersonides - A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Philosopher-Scientist
(Leiden, 1992); (with S. Kottek), Mélanges d'histoire de la
médecine hébraïque. Études choisies de la Revue de l'histoire de la
médecine hébraïque, 1948-1985 (Leiden, 2003); Science in Medieval
Jewish Cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011). He
also is the editor of Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and
Judaism.
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