1995-1996 Semester

Learning and Literacy: The Transmission of Tradition and Knowledge From Antiquity to the Present

Name
  Area of Research
Israel Bartal   The Uses of History: Jewish Orthodoxy
Hebrew University   and the Transmission of Tradition
     
Malachi Beit-Arie (S)   Medieval Hebrew Codicology: History and
Hebrew University   Typology of Medieval Manuscripts, Books, and Texts
     
Yaakov Elman   Orality and Canon in Talmudic Babylonia
Yeshiva University    
     
Tamar El-Or (F)   Literacy and Identity among
Hebrew University   National-Orthodox Women in Israel
     
Daphna Ephrat (F)   Change and Continuity in the Process of
Hebrew University   the Transmission of Islamic Learning from 945-1250
     
David Fishman (S)   The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture
Jewish Theological Seminary   in Tsarist Russia, 1897-1917
     
Israel Gershoni   Islamic Tradition in Modern Egypt: The Role of
Tel Aviv University   Intellectuals
     
Jeffrey Grossman   Wissenschaft des Judentums, Literary
Hebrew University   Transmission and the Structuring of Jewish Memory
     
Alfred Ivry   Maimonides' Philosophy and Cultural
New York University   Transmission: The Isma'ili Connection
     
Ruth Katz (F)   Oral and Written Transmission of Musical Traditions
Hebrew University   with special reference to Eastern Jewish Communities
     
Robert Kraft   Greek Jewish Scriptures: Vestiges of an
University of Pennsylvania   Influential Past, Vehicles for Renewed Understanding
     
Paul Mandel   Between Byzantium and Islam: The Transmission
Hebrew University   of Rabbinic Literature in the Post-Classical Period
     
Ronit Meroz (S)   The Transmission of Lurianic Tradition
Hebrew University/Tel-Aviv University via the School of Sarug    
     
Shalom Paul (S)   The Transmission of Tradition and Knowledge
Hebrew University   as Reflected in the Prophecies of Second Isaiah
     
Marc Saperstein   The Sermons of Saul Levi Morteira: Transmitting a
Washington University   Tradition to Former New Christians in 17th-century Amsterdam
     
Yochanan Silman   The Concept of Torah and its Means of
Bar Ilan University   Transmission in Rabbinic Literature
     
F = Fall term only
S = Spring term only