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  • Notes on Contributors

Georg (Jiří, George) Alter (1891–1972) was an astronomer, historian of astronomy, and musician. A biographical account appears in this issue of Aleph (pp. 115–156).

Gad Freudenthal is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at the CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) in Paris, and a professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Geneva. 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 (as editor) Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (Cambridge University Press, 2011). He also is the editor of Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism.

Email: gad.freudenthal@gmail.com

Bernard R. Goldstein, University Professor Emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, has written extensively on medieval astronomical texts and tables in Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, and Spanish. In collaboration with José Chabás he has published Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula: Abraham Zacut and the Transition from Manuscript to Print (American Philosophical Society, 2000), The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo (Kluwer, 2003), and The Astronomical Tables of Giovanni Bianchini (Brill, 2009).

Email: brg@pitt.edu

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 (Philadelphia, 2005) (with Gerrit Bos and Charles Burnett); “Ibn Kammūna and the ‘New Wisdom’ of the Thirteenth Century,” [End Page 205] Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 15 (2005): 277–327; and the entry on Abraham Ibn Ezra in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Email: uncletzvi@gmail.com

Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas is fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan. She holds a doctorate in Hebrew language and literature from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and the Sorbonne and has been a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard (Department of the History of Science), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Sidney M. Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine), London University (the Warburg Institute), and Oxford University (Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies). She has published a book (El cielo de Sefarad: los judíos y los astros, 2010) and several chapters and articles on medieval astronomy and astrology, technical terminology in Hebrew, and their sources in Greek, Latin, and Arabic literature. She contributed several entries to the Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (2009). She is currently working on the status and role of the astrolabe in Jewish culture (eleventh–sixteenth centuries) and finishing a book on the emergence and consolidation of astronomical terminology in medieval Hebrew (eleventh–twelfth centuries). Her main interests are medieval astronomy and astrology, technical terminology in Hebrew, medieval science in religious contexts, the Greek and Latin legacies in medieval Judaism, and interdisciplinary approaches to medieval texts.

Email: rodriguezarribas@gmail.com

Jan Roubinek, born in Prague, is a distant relative of Georg Alter. He holds a degree in history from Tel Aviv University. Since 2008 he has been a member of the team working on a Czech-Hebrew-Czech dictionary. Currently he is a research assistant in the historical department of the Terezín Memorial (Památník Terezín). Email: roubinek@pamatnik-terezin.cz [End Page 206]

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