Note on Contributors
- Note on Contributors
Shlomo Berger is professor of Yiddish culture at the University of Amsterdam. His recent publications include "Functioning within a Diasporic Third Space: The Case of Early Modern Yiddish," JSQ 15 (2008): 68–86, and "Interpreting Freud: The Yiddish Philosophical Journal Davke Investigates a Jewish Icon," Science in Context 20 (2007): 303–16. He is also completing a book entitled Yiddish Booklore in Amsterdam 1650–1800: A Study of Paratexts.
Carlos Fraenkel is an associate professor in the departments of philosophy and Jewish studies at McGill University in Montreal. His recent publications include From Maimonides to Samuel Ibn Tibbon: The Transformation of the Dalālat into the Moreh (Heb.) (Jerusalem, 2007); "The Problem of Anthropomorphism in a hitherto unknown Passage from Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Yiqqawu ha-Mayim and in a Newly Discovered Letter by David ben Saul," Jewish Studies Quarterly 11 (2004): 83–126; "Maimonides' God and Spinoza's Deus sive Natura," Journal of the History of Philosophy 44(2) (2006): 169–215; "Beyond the Faithful Disciple: Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Criticism of Maimonides," 56–58 (2006): 61–82.
Michael Rand is a researcher at the Academy of the Hebrew Language in Jerusalem, where he works on the Historical Hebrew Dictionary project. His specialty is classical piyyuṭ and its language. He is the author of Introduction to the Grammar of Hebrew Poetry in Byzantine Palestine (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2006) as well as of articles on piyyuṭ and piyyuṭ grammar, including "Liturgical Compositions for Shemini by Eleazar be-rabbi Qillir," Ginzei Qedem 3 (2007): 9*–99* , Jerusalem Studies in Hebrew [End Page 183] Literature 21 (2007): 39–45; and "Observations on the Relationship between JPA Poetry and the Hebrew Piyyuṭ. Tradition—The Case of the Qinot," in Jewish and Christian Liturgy and Worship: New Insights into its History and Interaction, ed. A. Gerhards and C. Leonhard (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 127–44.
James T. Robinson is Assistant Professor of the History of Judaism at the Divinity School, the University of Chicago. Among his recent publications is Samuel Ibn Tibbon's Commentary on Ecclesiastes, The Book of the Soul of Man (Tubingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2007). [End Page 184]
