Studies on Steinschneider

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.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: A Jewish Scholar in 19th-Century EuropeIsmar Schorsch The Vision Beyond the BooksMichael L. Miller “Your Loving Uncle”: Gideon Brecher, Moritz Steinschneider and the Moravian HaskalahCéline Trautmann-Waller Leopold Zunz and Moritz Steinschneider: Wissenschaft des Judentums as a Struggle against Ghettoization in Science Arndt Engelhardt Moritz Steinschneider's Notions of EncyclopediasIrene Zwiep From Dialektik to Comparative Literature: Steinschneider’s ‘Orientalism’Reimund Leicht Moritz Steinschneider’s Concept of the History of Jewish LiteratureNils Roemer Moritz Steinschneider and the Noble Dream of ObjectivityGad Freudenthal The Aim and Structure of Steinschneider’s Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters. The Historiographic Underpinnings of a Masterpiece and their Untoward ConsequencesGiulio Busi Steinschneider and the Irrational. A Bibliographical Struggle against the KabbalahGiuseppe Veltri Steinschneider’s interstitial explanation of magicPart II: The Father of Hebrew BibliographyJudith Olszowy-Schlanger Moritz Steinschneider and the Discipline of ‘Hebrew Manuscripts Study’Jan Just Witkam Moritz Steinschneider and the Leiden ManuscriptsSteven Harvey and Resianne Fontaine Creating a New Literary Genre: Steinschneider's Leiden CatalogueBenjamin Richler Steinschneider's ManuscriptsRachel Heuberger Aron Freimann and the Development of Jewish Bibliography in Germany in the 20th CenturyAvriel Bar-Levav A Living Citizen in a World of Dead Letters: Steinschneider RememberedPart III: The Study of Medieval Literature, Philosophy and ScienceDaniel J. Lasker Moritz Steinschneider and Karaite StudiesPaul B. Fenton Moritz Steinschneider's Contribution to Judaeo-Arabic StudiesDiana Matut Steinschneider and YiddishAsher Salah Steinschneider and ItalyTony Lévy Mathematik bei den Juden, cent ans après Norman Golb Steinschneider as HistorianPart IV: Moritz Steinschneider in Contemporary ResearchCharles Manekin The Genesis of Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen des MittelaltersAndreas 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 ArchivesPart V: Documents and TextsPetra Figeac Tracing Steinschneider in the Berlin StaatsbibliothekMoritz Steinschneider Der Aberglaube