Creativity and Tradition

Studies in Medieval Rabbinic Scholarship, Literature and Thought

Israel Ta-Shma

    Foreword

    Preface

    Ashkenazi Jewry in the Eleventh Century: Life and Literature

    On the History of the Jews in Twelfth and Thirteenth-Century Poland

    La Cultura Religiosa - The Chain of Tradition: South-Italian Rabbinic Tradition in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

    The Library of the French Sages

    Halakhah and Reality: The Tosafist Experience

    Halakhah, Reality, and the Concept of Historical Change

    Between East and West: R. Asher B. Yehiel and his son R. Jacob

    Children in Medieval Germanic Jewry: A Perspective on Aries from Jewish Sources

    The Law in Accordance with the Later Authority Hilkheta Ke-Vatra'Ei: Historical Observations on a Legal Rule

    Early Modern Trends in Late West-European Talmud Commentary and their Influence on Popular Talmud Studies in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

    The Acceptance of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah in Italy

    The Penetration of Ashkenazi Custom-Law and Folklore in the Zohar: The Phenomenon and its Historical Origin

    The "Open" Book in Medieval Hebrew Literature: The Problem of Authorized Editions

    The Study of Aggadah and its Interpretation in Early Rabbinic Literature

    Rabbi Jonah Gerondi: Spirituality and Leadership

    Professor Katz on Halakhah and Kabbalah

Israel Ta-Shma is Professor Emeritus at The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.