Agata Paluch
Biographic Data
| ID | 1018348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agata Paluch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agata |
| FAMILY NAME | Paluch |
| SIGNATURE | PALUCH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9678-4254 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Paper Matters: Jewish Recipes and Ephemeral Objects in Early Modern East-Central Europe
Paper has long been recognized as a crucial resource for knowledge production in post-medieval Europe. Historians have emphasized its importance in accumulating intellectual and political capital through practices such as learning and information management, which heavily relied on the material availability of paper in early modern Europe. Recent research on ‘recipe knowledge’ has expanded this narrative of premodern knowledge-making by exploring…
The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Penis: Recipes and Kabbalistic Masculinity in the Early Modern Ashkenazi World
Kabbalistic recipes to prevent unwanted seminal emissions emerged at the intersection of religious, social, ethical, bibliographical, and epistemic discourses in the early modern Ashkenazi world. This chapter focuses on recipes for the prevention of seminal emissions and argues that they explored the connections between the emotional–corporeal and divine–human continuums and that subjective agency and community identity were expressed through the…
On Making Jewish Books in the Early Modern Period
Kabbalistic Afterlives: Copies, Reproductions, and Textual Circulation in the Making of Postmedieval Kabbalah in Eastern and Central Europe (Ashkenaz)
Article Kabbalistic Afterlives: Copies, Reproductions, and Textual Circulation in the Making of Postmedieval Kabbalah in Eastern and Central Europe (Ashkenaz) was published on December 31, 2024 in the journal Aschkenas (volume 34, issue 2)
Between Active Matter and Letters: Kabbalah, Natural Knowledge, and Jewish How-To Books in Early Modern East-Central Europe
This essay focuses on Jewish practical kabbalistic books of recipes that were produced in early modern East-Central Europe. These handwritten sources document the Jewish engagement with practical forms of expertise, which were informed by the theoretical foundations of kabbalistic knowledge. Through two case studies, the article highlights Jewish vernacular ideas about nature and matter, and the techniques used to transform these ideas into pract…
On Practical Uses of Ten Sefirot: Material Readings in an Early Modern Kabbalistic Collectaneum (MS Michael 473)
By the end of the sixteenth century, textual manifestations of kabbalah—a variety of Jewish mysticism that first emerged in medieval Provence and Catalonia—achieved the status of elite but authoritative lore in Eastern and Central Europe, even if at times they stirred religious opposition. At the same time, and especially in the seventeenth century, the so-called practical kabbalah, associated with magic and a talismanic approach to religious rit…
Entertaining Knowledge: Play and Chance in Premodern Kabbalistic Recipe Books
Contribution to the essay forum "The Jewish Recipe
Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfers in Early Modernity: Foreword
Enoch-Metatron Revisited: Prayers, Adjurations, and Metonymical Hermeneutics in Premodern Jewish Mystical and Magical Texts
This essay explores the construction of interpretive authority as a process of both creation and re-creation of meanings, and their self-legitimization in texts. The process of interpretation in that sense does not simply replace one set of meanings with another but rather metonymically enlarges the pool of signifiers by juxtaposing the traditional and the innovative, thus safeguarding the whole range of possible meanings of texts. The cluster of…
Intentionality and Kabbalistic Practices in Early Modern East-Central Europe
Kavanot , or mystical intentions, have acquired varied meanings and interpretations in kabbalistic literatures, from the practice of harmonising one’s mind with the requirement of performed ritual to elaborate processes of mental focus, exercised during prayer and other ritual acts, on divine attributes signified by divine names and stipulated meticulously in kabbalistic prayer-books. Early modern practical kabbalistic manuals also, to no surpris…
Żaba pod językiem. Medycyna ludowa Żydów aszkenazyjskich przełomu XIX i XX wieku [A Frog Under the Tongue: [Folk Medicine for Ashkenazi Jews at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries]
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Żaba pod językiem. Medycyna ludowa Żydów aszkenazyjskich przełomu XIX i XX wieku [A Frog Under the Tongue: [Folk Medicine for Ashkenazi Jews at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries]
Intentionality and Kabbalistic Practices in Early Modern East-Central Europe
Kavanot , or mystical intentions, have acquired varied meanings and interpretations in kabbalistic literatures, from the practice of harmonising one’s mind with the requirement of performed ritual to elaborate processes of mental focus, exercised during prayer and other ritual acts, on divine attributes signified by divine names and stipulated meticulously in kabbalistic prayer-books. Early modern practical kabbalistic manuals also, to no surpris…
Kabbalah and Knowledge Transfers in Early Modernity: Foreword
Enoch-Metatron Revisited: Prayers, Adjurations, and Metonymical Hermeneutics in Premodern Jewish Mystical and Magical Texts
This essay explores the construction of interpretive authority as a process of both creation and re-creation of meanings, and their self-legitimization in texts. The process of interpretation in that sense does not simply replace one set of meanings with another but rather metonymically enlarges the pool of signifiers by juxtaposing the traditional and the innovative, thus safeguarding the whole range of possible meanings of texts. The cluster of…
On Practical Uses of Ten Sefirot: Material Readings in an Early Modern Kabbalistic Collectaneum (MS Michael 473)
By the end of the sixteenth century, textual manifestations of kabbalah—a variety of Jewish mysticism that first emerged in medieval Provence and Catalonia—achieved the status of elite but authoritative lore in Eastern and Central Europe, even if at times they stirred religious opposition. At the same time, and especially in the seventeenth century, the so-called practical kabbalah, associated with magic and a talismanic approach to religious rit…
Entertaining Knowledge: Play and Chance in Premodern Kabbalistic Recipe Books
Contribution to the essay forum "The Jewish Recipe
On Making Jewish Books in the Early Modern Period
Kabbalistic Afterlives: Copies, Reproductions, and Textual Circulation in the Making of Postmedieval Kabbalah in Eastern and Central Europe (Ashkenaz)
Article Kabbalistic Afterlives: Copies, Reproductions, and Textual Circulation in the Making of Postmedieval Kabbalah in Eastern and Central Europe (Ashkenaz) was published on December 31, 2024 in the journal Aschkenas (volume 34, issue 2)
Between Active Matter and Letters: Kabbalah, Natural Knowledge, and Jewish How-To Books in Early Modern East-Central Europe
This essay focuses on Jewish practical kabbalistic books of recipes that were produced in early modern East-Central Europe. These handwritten sources document the Jewish engagement with practical forms of expertise, which were informed by the theoretical foundations of kabbalistic knowledge. Through two case studies, the article highlights Jewish vernacular ideas about nature and matter, and the techniques used to transform these ideas into pract…
Paper Matters: Jewish Recipes and Ephemeral Objects in Early Modern East-Central Europe
Paper has long been recognized as a crucial resource for knowledge production in post-medieval Europe. Historians have emphasized its importance in accumulating intellectual and political capital through practices such as learning and information management, which heavily relied on the material availability of paper in early modern Europe. Recent research on ‘recipe knowledge’ has expanded this narrative of premodern knowledge-making by exploring…
The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Penis: Recipes and Kabbalistic Masculinity in the Early Modern Ashkenazi World
Kabbalistic recipes to prevent unwanted seminal emissions emerged at the intersection of religious, social, ethical, bibliographical, and epistemic discourses in the early modern Ashkenazi world. This chapter focuses on recipes for the prevention of seminal emissions and argues that they explored the connections between the emotional–corporeal and divine–human continuums and that subjective agency and community identity were expressed through the…
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