Jewish Translation and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Europe

Project Information

JEWTACT

Grant agreement ID: 801861

DOI

10.3030/801861

Project closed

EC signature date 9 October 2018

Start date 1 February 2019

End date 31 January 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 496 900,00

EU contribution

€ 1 496 900,00

Coordinated by

BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV
Israel

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Publications

Book chapters (4)

The Iberian Diasporas in the 18th and 19th Centuries

Author(s): Karkason, Tamir
Published in: Jewish Literature in Spanish and Portuguese: A Comprehensive Handbook, 2022
Publisher: De Gruter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110563795

The JEWTACT Database: Creating a New Early Modern Jewish Archive

Author(s): Janosikova, Magdalena & Iris Idelson-Shein
Published in: Early Modern Translation and the Digital Humanities, 2024, ISBN 978-3-662-70483-7
Publisher: J.B. Metzler: Stuttgart

Worms & Prague. ~1600: Two Jonah Translations and Old Yiddish Translation, 1500-1700

Author(s): Sharon-Pinto, Ossnat, & Cohen, Roni
Published in: Europe in the World, 2025
Publisher: Oxford University Press

“A Yiddish Cabinet of Curiosities: Gliles Eretz Yisroel and the Early Modern Afterlife of the Medieval Hebrew Travelogue”

Author(s): Sharon-Pinto, Ossnat
Published in: Bridges of Knowledge: Jewish Languages in Cultural Context, by Jean Baumgarten et al. (eds), 2025
Publisher: Brill

Peer reviewed articles (19)

Writing the Talmud Anew: Shlomo Sirilio's Renaissance Edition of the Jerusalem Talmud

Author(s): Mayer, Yakov Z.
Published in: Jewish Quarterly Review, 2023, ISSN 1553-0604
Publisher: Penn
DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2023.a904504

Rabbis of the (Scientific) Revolution: Revealing the Hidden Corpus of Early Modern Translations Produced by Jewish Religious Thinkers

Author(s): Iris Idelson-Shein
Published in: The American Historical Review, Issue 126/1, 2021, Page(s) 54-81, ISSN 0002-8762
Publisher: American Historical Association
DOI: 10.1093/ahr/rhab001

Kill the hen that crows like a cock: animal encounters in Old Yiddish

Author(s): Iris Idelson-Shein
Published in: Journal of Jewish Studies, Issue 71/2, 2020, Page(s) 321-344, ISSN 0022-2097
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.18647/3462/jjs-2020

The Scientific Method, the Atomist Theory, and the Bible Commentary of Rabbi Moshe Chefetz (1664-1712) [Hebrew]

Author(s): Goren, Ahuvia
Published in: Zion, Issue 88a, 2022, ISSN 0044-4758
Publisher: החברה ההיסטורית הישראלית

Familiarly Foreign: The Judeo-German Novellas of the Frankfurt-Oder Press.

Author(s): Sharon-Pinto, Ossnat
Published in: Jewish Quarterly Review, Issue 2025, 2025, ISSN 0021-6682
Publisher: Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning

Benyamin Dias Brandon’s Orot Hamivot (1753) : Halacha and Polemics in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam *

Author(s): Ahuvia Goren
Published in: Studia Rosenthaliana: Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands, Issue 46/1, 2020, Page(s) 189-210, ISSN 0039-3347
Publisher: Van Gorcum
DOI: 10.5117/sr2020.1-2.009.gore

Elijah of Fulda and the 1710 Amsterdam Edition of the Palestinian Talmud 1

Author(s): Yakov Z. Mayer
Published in: Studia Rosenthaliana: Journal of the History, Culture and Heritage of the Jews in the Netherlands, Issue 46/1, 2020, Page(s) 117-135, ISSN 0039-3347
Publisher: Van Gorcum
DOI: 10.5117/sr2020.1-2.006.maye

A Jewish Qur’an: An Eighteenth-Century Hebrew Qur’an Translation in Its Indian Context

Author(s): Alexander Van der Haven
Published in: Religions, Issue 14, 2025, Page(s) 1368, ISSN 2077-1444
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rel14111368

"""Studying Ibn Sına, Performing Abulafia in a Mid-Sixteenth-Century Prison: Emotional, Medical, and Mystical Bodies between Italy and Silesia."" Forthcoming 2022."

Author(s): Jánošíková, Magdaléna
Published in: European Journal of Jewish Studies. Special issue: “Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfer”, Issue 2022, 2022, ISSN 1872-471X
Publisher: BRILL

The Jewish Reception of the Ars Notoria: Preliminary Insights into a Recent Discovery

Author(s): Gal Sofer
Published in: Religions, Issue 15, 2025, Page(s) 339, ISSN 2077-1444
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rel15030339

United in Scholarship, Divided in Practice: (Re)Translating Smallpox and Measles for Seventeenth-Century Jews

Author(s): Jánošíková, Magdaléna
Published in: Isis: A Journal of the History of Science, Issue Volume 113, Number 2, 2022, ISSN 1545-6994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.1086/719576

Shabbethei Bass and the construction – and deconstruction – of a Jewish library

Author(s): Iris Idelson-Shein
Published in: Jewish Culture and History, Issue 22/1, 2021, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 1462-169X
Publisher: University of Southampton
DOI: 10.1080/1462169x.2021.1886718

New Science in Old Yiddish: Jewish Vernacular Science and Translation in Early Modern Europe

Author(s): Jánošíková, Magdaléna; Idelson-Shein, Iris
Published in: Jewish Quarterly Review, 2023, ISSN 1553-0604
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
DOI: 10.1353/jqr.2023.a904505

"""Of Wombs and Words: Migrating Misogynies in Early Modern Medical Literature in Latin and Hebrew.”"

Author(s): Idelson-Shein, Iris
Published in: AJS Review, Issue 2022, 2022, ISSN 0364-0094
Publisher: Association for Jewish Studies
DOI: 10.1353/ajs.2022.0042

The Jewish Traveler and the Protestant Shoemaker: A Hans Sachs Poem in Yiddish

Author(s): Oded Cohen, Roni Cohen
Published in: Zutot, 2023, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 1571-7283
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/18750214-bja10040

The Lulav: Early Modern Polemical Ethnographies and the Art of Fencing

Author(s): Ahuvia Goren
Published in: Religions, Issue 12/7, 2021, Page(s) 493, ISSN 2077-1444
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rel12070493

"""A German Tune, A Hebrew Script: A Yiddish Translation of Lutheran Liturgy"""

Author(s): Cohen, Roni
Published in: In Geveb: A Journal of Yiddish Studies, Issue July 2024, 2024, ISSN 2381-5973
Publisher: In Geveb

"""I Too Speak the Words of God': A Jewish Learned Woman Faces an Early Modern Rabbinic Court.”"

Author(s): Goren, Ahuvia
Published in: Jewish Quarterly Review, Issue 115.2, 2025, ISSN 0021-6682
Publisher: Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning

Motivations for Translation in the Paratexts of Early Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Translations

Author(s): Idelson-Shein, Iris
Published in: Zion, Issue 86, 2021, Page(s) 4:535-562, ISSN 0044-4758
Publisher: Zalman Shazar

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Uncertainties: Doubt, Unbelief, and Skepticism in Early Modern Jewish Italy

Author(s): Goren, Ahuvia
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

From East(s) to West(s): Unveiling Mar'ot ha-Tsov'ot

Author(s): Zadok, Maayan
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Monographic books (1)

Between the Bridge and the Barricade

Author(s): Iris Idelson-Shein
Published in: 2024, ISBN 978-1-5128-2495-7
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
DOI: 10.9783/9781512824957