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  • Note on Contributors

Gerrit Bos is professor of Jewish studies at the Martin Buber Institute of the University of Cologne. His research interests cover medieval Jewish and Islamic science, especially medicine. He is currently pursuing three projects: Maimonides’ medical writings; medico-botanical synonym literature in Hebrew manuscripts (with Guido Mensching); and Jacob ben Makhir’s Hebrew translation of Averroes’ De animalibus. His most recent publication is Maimonides’ Medical Aphorisms, Treatises 6–9 (Provo, 2005).

Francesca Bregoli is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Pennsylvania; her dissertation is entitled “Mediterranean Enlightenment: Jewish Culture in Livorno, 1737–1790” (2007). She holds a laurea in Oriental languages from the University of Venice (1998) and a master’s in Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (2001). Her research interests include early modern cultural history, Jewish-Christian relations, and the history of the book. She has published an annotated Italian translation of Sefer maʿaśeh bereʾšit by Eleazar of Worms (2002).

Stephen Cohen, who received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Rice University, is a technical writer at HORIBA Jobin Yvon. His main research interest is Yiddish scientific literature. His recent publications in Jewish studies include: “Khemye: Chemical Literature in Yiddish,” Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 29(1) (2004): 21–29; and “The Transformation of the Haggadah’s Preface as Influenced by the Development of Public Education in Europe and the United States,” Shofar 18(2) (2000): 27–41). [End Page 365]

Ivan Garofalo is professor of the history of Greek at the University of Siena. He has published extensively on ancient medicine and its transmission (in Greek, Latin, Arabic). His work includes editions of the fragments of Erasistratus, of Galen’s Anatomicae administrationes (in Greek and in Arabic translation), of De morbis acutis et chroniis by an anonymous Greek author, and of Galen’s On Bones and on the Dissection of the Muscles.

Y. Tzvi Langermann received his Ph.D. in the history of science from Harvard; he is now a member of the Department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University. Among his most recent publications are Hebrew Medical Astrology (with Gerrit Bos and Charles Burnett; Philadelphia, 2005); “Ibn Kammūna and the ‘New Wisdom’ of the Thirteenth century,” Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 15 (2005), 277–327; and the entry on Abraham Ibn Ezra in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Piergabriele Mancuso is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at University College London and the Primo Levi Teaching Fellow at the Boston University Center for Italian and European Studies in Padua. In addition to articles on the Jews of southern Italy and on early medieval Hebrew literature, he has published a number of books, including: La musica nell’ebraismo (Milan: Lulav, 2000); I Cantici di Salomone: La nascita della scienza musicale nel mondo ebraico tra 1400 e 1600 (Milan: Lulav, 2001); Qohelet Rabbah. Il commento al libro dell’Ecclesiaste (Florence: Giuntina, 2004); and Sefer Yetzirah, Il libro della formazione (Milan: Lulav, 2001). He is currently editing two texts by Shabbatai Donnolo and conducting research on Jewish music in southern Italy.

Arnold Reisman, who received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in engineering from UCLA, is a registered professional engineer. After 27 years as a professor of operations research at Case Western Reserve University, [End Page 366] Reisman chose early retirement in 1994. In 1999–2003 he was a visiting scholar in Turkey at both Sabanci University and the Istanbul Technical University. His current research interests are technology transfer, meta-research, and, most recently, the annals of German-speaking refugee professors after 1933 and their impact on science in general and on Turkish universities in particular. After 200-plus journal articles and more than a dozen books, his most recent publication is Turkey’s Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Atatürk’s Vision (Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2006).

Sacha Stern is reader in Rabbinic Judaism at University College London. His publications include Calendar and Community: A History of the Jewish Calendar, Second Century BCE–Tenth Century CE (Oxford, 2001), and Time and Process in Ancient Judaism (Oxford, 2003). [End Page 367]

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