Studies on Steinschneider : : Moritz Steinschneider and the emergence of the science of Judaism in nineteenth-century Germany / / edited by Reimund Leicht and Gad Freudenthal.

• Superior document: Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 33
• TeilnehmendeR: Leicht, Reimund.; Freudenthal, Gad.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Jewish History and Culture 33.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (634 p.)
• Notes: "Most of the contributions included in this volume are expanded and revised versions of papers delivered at the conference: "Moritz Steinschneider (1816-1907) : bibliography and the study of cultural transfer. A Centennial Conference," held on 20-22 November 2007 at the Staatsbibliothek Preuischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin".

The present volume of studies on the life and work of Moritz (Moshe) Steinschneider (1816-1907) seeks to modify the traditional view of Steinschneider as a “mere bibliographer” by revealing other dimensions of his scientific personality. Together, the articles show that Steinschneider’s manifold sch...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Reimund Leicht and Gad Freudenthal
• A Jewish Scholar in Nineteenth-Century Europe Moritz Steinschneider: / Ismar Schorsch
• “Your Loving Uncle”: / Michael L. Miller
• Leopold Zunz and Moritz Steinschneider: / Céline Trautmann-Waller
• Moritz Steinschneider’s Notion of Encyclopedias / Arndt Engelhardt
• From Dialektik to Comparative Literature: / Irene E. Zwiep
• Moritz Steinschneider’s Concept of the History of Jewish Literature / Reimund Leicht
• Moritz Steinschneider and the Noble Dream of Objectivity / Nils Roemer
• The Aim and Structure of Steinschneider’s Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters. The Historiographic Underpinnings of a Masterpiece and Their Untoward Consequences / Gad Freudenthal
• Steinschneider and the Irrational: / Giulio Busi
• Steinschneider’s Interstitial Explanation of Magic / Giuseppe Veltri
• The Father of Hebrew Bibliography Moritz Steinschneider and the Discipline of ‘Hebrew Manuscripts Study’ / Judith Olszowy-Schlanger
• Moritz Steinschneider and the Leiden Manuscripts / Jan Just Witkam
• Creating a New Literary Genre: / Steven Harvey and Resianne Fontaine
• Steinschneider’s Manuscripts / Benjamin Richler
• Aron Freimann and the Development of Jewish Bibliography in Germany in the 20th Century / Rachel Heuberger
• A Living Citizen in a World of Dead Letters: / Avriel Bar-Levav
• The Study of Medieval Literature, Philosophy and Science Moritz Steinschneider and Karaite Studies / Daniel J. Lasker
• Moritz Steinschneider’s Contribution to Judaeo-Arabic Studies / Paul B. Fenton
• Steinschneider and Yiddish / Diana Matut
• Steinschneider and Italy / Asher Salah
• Mathematik bei den Juden, cent ans après / Tony Lévy
• Steinschneider as Historian / Norman Golb
• Moritz Steinschneider in Contemporary Research The Genesis of Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters / Charles H. Manekin
• Genizat Germania. A Projected Comprehensive Electronic Catalogue of Hebrew Fragments Extracted from Bindings of Books or Archival Files in German Libraries and Archives / Elisabeth Hollender and Andreas Lehnardt
• Documents and Texts Tracing Steinschneider in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek / Petra Figeac
• Der Aberglaube [1900] / Moritz Steinschneider
• Index / Reimund Leicht and Gad Freudenthal.