Albert Einstein - Interviews and Opinions Albert Einstein's capability to penetrate straight to the heart of a subject is crystal clear in his writings and scientific works. Because of this rare virtue, complicated problems are made to seem so simple, and deep-rooted ideas come to the surface. Here for the first time in the Hebrew language is Albert Einstein's Mein Weltbild (Europa Verlag, 1953) – a collection of his best articles, selected by Einstein himself from various periods of his life. Included are scientific/popular articles that deal with relativity and new theories in atomic physics. Also, articles in general, on e.g., the philosophy of science, problems in war and peace, religion and science, Jewish studies, and Zionism. In the scientific section of the 1953 edition, and introduction and remarks were included by Professor Valentine Bergman, who Einstein named “one of our youngest, most brilliant physicist”. In the Hebrew edition, an introduction was written by Professor Isaachar Unna for the purpose of updating the reader on Einstein's theories today together with an appendix on the circumstances that surrounded the writing of this book.
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	Ancient Place Names in the Holy Land Preservation and History by Yoel Elizur This book proposes to answer a basic need in the historical geography of the Land of Israel, its implications for scholarship in Hebrew and Aramaic linguistics, Bible studies and numerous other areas. The earliest scholars of historical geography of the Holy Land served a large proportion of ancient toponyms preserved in Arab speech right up to modern times, and as a consequence, Arabic toponyms became a major source for the identification of ancient sites. For students of Hebrew and other Semitic languages, the toponymy of the Land of Israel provides a kind of ancient `recording' of a pre-Arab linguistic inventory; in addition, scholars of Bible and Rabbinics, Qumran studies, Samaritan studies, early Christianity and the history of Islam find it of importance frequently. However, the problem is that as yet, the use of this valuable tool is not governed by any clear-cut rules. Scholars could always find corroboration for any proposed identification by pointing to a certain Arabic place name. The present volume is an attempt to formulate rules of toponym preservation based on positive identifications, and through these rules to deal with various historical and linguistic questions.
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DanaCode 45-352014 ISBN 1-57506-071-x	Language: English  Hardcover 24x17 cm  459 Pages Price: $59.50
	The Hebrew University Bible The Book of Ezekiel Editors Moshe H. Goshen-Gottstein Shemaryahu Talmon Associate Editor Galen Marquis TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction I. The History of the Text of Ezekiel as Reflected in the Apparatuses II. The Basic Text and the Masora III. Apparatus I: The Versions IV. Apparatus II: The Judean Desert Scrolls and Biblical Quotations in Rabbinic Literature V. Apparatus III: Medieval Bible Manuscripts VI. Apparatus IV: Orthography, Vowels, and Accents Bibliographical Abbreviations Abbreviations Appendix Open and Closed Sections The Book of Ezekiel
The base text of the edition reproduces the Aleppo Codex, the most important representative of the Tiberian masoretic text of the Ben Asher tradition. Underneath the text, four apparata of variant readings culled from various textual witnesses are presented: (I) the ancient Versions – the Greek Septuagint, the Latin Vulgate, the Aramaic Targum Jonathan, and the Syriac Peshitta; (II) the extant fragments of scrolls from the Judaean Desert and biblical quotations found in rabbinic literature; (III) select Genizah fragments and 'extra-masoretic' Hebrew medieval manuscripts; (IV) various Hebrew manuscripts representing the development of the masoretic text up to Ben Hayyim's Biblica Rabbinica of 1514-5.
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DanaCode 45-101102 ISBN 965-493-186-9	Publishing Date: July 2004 Language: Hebrew  Cloth  28x21 cm  334 Pages Price: $US 90
	Tarbiz, Volume LXXII Number 3 A Quarterly for Jewish Studies CONTENTS Alexander Rofe: Secondary Completion of Verses and the Text of Psalms 91:4 in 11Q11 Joseph M. Baumgarten: Some Astrological and Qumranic Terms in 4QInstruction (Musar Le Mevın) Yossi Baruchi: The Territory of Ashqelon in the Roman period David Henshke: Scheming Witnesses: Towards a Solution of an Ancient Riddle Avriel Bar-Levav: Magic in Jewish Ethical Literature Zvi Mark: ‘The Tale of the Bread’: A Hidden Story of R. Nahman of Braslav
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DanaCode 45-601724 ISSN 0334-3650	Publishing Date: 7 2004 Paperback   24x17 cm   140 Pages
	Partial Answers: Volume 2, Number 2 Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas Edited By Leona Toker Contents On Being Too Deeply Loved Tzachi Zamir Familiarizing the Colonized in Ben Jonson’s Masques William Over A Woman’s Space Is in the Home: Architecture, Privacy, and Melodrama in Pamela and Gaslight Kay Young Organization of Space in Aleksandr Blok’s Retribution Nina Segal (Rudnik) Turning Back : Retracing Twentieth-Century Trauma in Virginia Woolf, Martin Amis, and W. G. Sebald Natania Rosenfeld Writing the Post-Colonial Space: Ben Okri’s Magical City and the Subversion of Imperialism Sara Upstone Language and Landscape: Conflict in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah Paoi Hwang On Place and Space in Shirley Kaufman's Eynel Wardi Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew, by Susan Gubar Emily Miller Budick Later Derrida: Reading the Recent Work, by Herman Rapaport Rowan Bailey and Peter Kilroy Terrorism and Modern Literature, From Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson, by Alex Houen Ruth Kolani Nabokov at Cornell, ed. Gavriel Shapiro Edward Waysband
Place an order for this item DanaCode 45-302013 ISSN 1565-3668 Publishing Date: 7 2004 Language: English paperback 21x14 cm 234 Pages Price: US $20
	Let's Hear Only Good News: Yiddish Blessings and Curses By Yosef Guri Hebrew University Magnes Press ABOUT THE BOOK A first attempt is made to portray this folklore genre in Yiddish lexicography. The 200 blessings and around 450 curses included in this dictionary are arranged alphabetically. The Yiddish entries are accompanied by their equivalent in Hebrew, Russian and English. Also added are literal translations (in Hebrew and English), for readers whose knowledge of the Yiddish language is at a minimum, but who would still like to know the actual ideas and images behind the Yiddish expressions. The dictionary is illustrated by amusing drawings. Also included is an introductory essay in Yiddish, Hebrew, English and Russian on the blessings and curses – a subject almost never researched until now. This genre of Yiddish folklore is evidence of the fertile imagination of the Yiddish speaker and their keen sense of humor, and will be eagerly welcomed by specialists and Yiddish lovers around the world.
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DanaCode 45-353010 Publishing Date: 1 2004	Language: English, Yiddish, Hebrew & Russian   Paperback   15x23 cm    280 Pages
	"The Lachman Problem": An Unsung Chapter in Comparative Musicology Including Unpublished Letters and Lectures of Robert Lachmann Yuval Monograph Series By Ruth Katz The Lachmann Problem tells an unknown story about a well-known German musicologist, Robert Lachmann (1892-1939), best known among scholars whose interest centers on Arabic music. After being ousted by the Nazi regime, Lachmann arrived in Palestine in 1935 to join the staff of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. However, many University officials misunderstood his interests, which was primarily based on a conception that the unfamiliar field of musicology was a “luxury” which the University could ill afford at the time. Presented in this volume are letters and documents, published for the first time, revealing not only a picture of life in Palestine during the 1930's, but providing new information on the early stages of comparative musicology and offer new insights into the thinking of its founding fathers. Others of these documents betray the daily routines, working style and methodology as well as the unanticipated hardships which Robert Lachmann encountered. These are embedded in letters to parents, correspondence with former colleagues, progress reports, lectures and radio lectures, and petitions to academic and bureaucratic authorities and several brilliant attempts to introduce non-European music to Europeans, and Orientals, Arabs and Jews alike, who were urged to cherish their musical heritage. These documents were chosen primarily for their relevance to an unsung chapter in the history of musicology, which epitomizes Robert Lachmann's trying times.
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DanaCode 45-337018 ISSN 0334-3758	Language: English   Hardcover 24x17 cm  422 Pages Price: US $35
	Partial Answers: Volume 2, Number 1 Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas Edited By Leona Toker CONTENTS A r t i c l e s J a n e t T h o r m a n n The Jewish Other in Old English Narrative Poetry 1 O r t w i n d e G r a e f Encrypted Sympathy: Wordsworth’s Infant Ideology 21 N a t a l i a P e r v u k h i n a Vladimir Pecherin’s Apologia pro vita mea (Mémoires d’outre-tombe): A Strategy of Defense 53 G e r s h o n S h a k e d After the Fall: Nostalgia and the Treatment of Authority in the Works of Kafka and Agnon, Two Habsburgian Writers 81 Y a e l S . F e l d m a n From Essentialism to Constructivism? The Gender of Peace and War in Gilman, Woolf, and Freud 113 J a n i c e S t e w a r t “Locked in a Room of One’s Own?”: Querying the Quest for Keys to Woolf’s “Madness” 147 R a j e e v S . P a t k e The Islands of Poetry; the Poetry of Islands 177
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DanaCode 45-302012 ISSN 1565-3668	B o o k R e v i e w s P i e t e r V e r m e u l e n Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity, by Geoffrey Hartman 195 L a w r e n c e B e s s e r m a n A Companion to Chaucer, ed. Peter Brown 200 D a v i d W . P r i c e Don DeLillo: The Physics of Language, by David Cowart 204 T a m a r S . H e s s Ideology and Jewish Identity in Israeli and American Literature, ed. Emily Miller Budick 208
	Samuel David Luzzatto: The Bi-Centennial of His Birth Edited By Robert Bonfil Isaac Gottlieb Hannah Kasher Samuel David Luzzatto (Italy, 1800-1865) stood at the head of the Rabbinical College of Padua for many years. He was a poet and researcher of literature, Bible commentator and philosopher, essayist and critic. In addition he corresponded with the major Jewish thinkers of his day on the Enlightenment, Reform movements, and nationalism. In all these areas he distinguished himself through his originality and honesty. These papers were delivered at a conference marking his bicentennial, where scholars from Israel, Italy, and France presented his contributions in the above fields. Anyone interested in Jewish studies, Italian Jewry, or intellectual currents of the nineteenth century will benefit from this collection. ITALIA, Conference Supplement Series, 2 ITALIA Series Periodical for research in the history, culture and literature of the Jews of Italy. Institute of Jewish Studies, Faculty of Humanities The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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DanaCode 45-151105 ISBN 965-493-185-0	Language: Hebrew, English & Italian    Cloth   15x23 cm   336 Pages Price: $US 20
	ISRAEL JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICS VOL. 138 The Israel Journal of Mathematics publishes research papers of the highest quality in a wide spectrum of mathematical fields. The range of areas represented by its Editorial Board includes set theory, logic, model theory, algebra, group theory, number theory, analysis, functional analysis, ergodic theory, geometry, algebraic topology, combinatorics, theoretical computer science and applied mathematics. Six volumes of approximately 380 pages each are published annually.
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DanaCode 45-392315 ISSN 0021-2172	Language: English    paperback  15x23 cm  379 Pages Price: $US 61

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