Editor's Foreword
- Editor's Foreword
It is my great pleasure to announce that, beginning with issue no. 4 (2004), Aleph is distributed by the Indiana University Press. This affiliation makes it easy to subscribe via the Internet, and we expect that the number of print subscribers will increase significantly. At the same time, Aleph has also become accessible online via MUSE.
Contracting the distribution to the Indiana University Press (or any professional distributor) required a substantial payment up front. It is with deep gratitude that I acknowledge the generous grant for this purpose from the American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR), in recognition of our past efforts and future prospects. I am especially appreciative of the help and encouragement provided by the fellows of the AAJR who were instrumental in obtaining this subvention.
With this issue, Aleph introduces a new occasional rubric, "The Treasure Trove," offering English translations of classic papers originally published in other languages, mainly Hebrew. We hope that this will make these papers accessible to a new public of interested readers. [End Page 7]
Gad Freudenthal is a Permanent Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. He studies medieval and early modern science in Hebrew cultures and recently published Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions (Aldershot, 2005). He is also the editor of Aleph.
