Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture

Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, edited by Shlomo Berger, Michael Brocke and Irene Zwiep. Brill, Leiden. Zutot aims to fill a gap that has become more and more conspicuous among the wealth of scholarly periodicals in the field of Jewish Studies. Whereas existing journals provide space to medium and large sized articles, they neglect the small but poignant contributions, which may be as important as the extended, detailed study. Zutot serves as a platform for small but incisive contributions, and provides them with a distinct context. The substance of these contributions is derived from larger perspectives and, though not always presented in an exhaustive … read moreway, will have an impact on contemporary discussions. Zutot covers Jewish culture in its broadest sense, i.e. encompassing various academic disciplines—literature, languages and linguistics, philosophy, art, sociology, politics and history—and reflects binary oppositions such as religious and secular, high and low, written and oral, male and female culture.

Zutot 2008

Zutot 2008: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, Bd. 5. BRILL 2008. ISSN 1571-7283.

Sections: Rabbinics; Tefillah and Piyyut; Literature; Science and Philosophy; Booklore; Yiddish Newspapers and Periodicals; Biography.

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Zutot 2004

Zutot 2004: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, Bd. 4. Kluwer Academic Publishers 2006. ISBN: 1-4020-5453-x

Sections: Motifs in Literature; History and Demography; Medieval and Renaissance Thought; Haskalah; Within Orthodoxy

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Zutot 2003

Zutot 2003: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, Bd. 3. Kluwer Academic Publishers (2004), 188 Seiten, gebunden; ISBN: 1-4020-2627-7

Sections: Folklore And Magic, Ibn Gabirol's Keter Malkhut, Philosophy And Science, Sephardica, Jewish Scenes, Dutch Jewry, Essay.

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Zutot 2002

Zutot 2002: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, Bd. 2. Kluwer Academic Publishers (2003), 224 Seiten, gebunden; ISBN: 1-4020-1324-8

Sections: Antiquity; Poetry and Piyyut; Middle Ages; Maimonides; Books and Manuscripts; Modern and Contemporary; Corrigenda.

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Zutot 2001

Zutot 2001: Perspectives on Jewish Culture, Bd. 1. Kluwer Academic Publishers (2002), 230 Seiten, gebunden; ISBN: 1-4020-0702-7

Sections: Bible; Greek and Roman World; Piyyut; Jewish Thought; Booklore; History; Yiddish; Haskalah and Hassidim; Contemporary Culture.