Shlomo Berger
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shlomo Berger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shlomo |
| FAMILY NAME | Berger |
| SIGNATURE | BERGER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Early Modern Yiddish and the Emergence of the Anonymous Reader
This article examines how the practice of private, silent reading in the early modern period encouraged the growth of a broad Yiddish readership and promoted the legitimacy of Yiddish as an Ashkenazi vernacular. When spaces between words were introduced in copying or printing, reading became easier and was no longer the privilege of skilled artisans or intellectuals. The ever-widening circles of people reading in their own chambers were essential…
Revolution and Society in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy
The analysis of a Greek political phenomenon within the confines of the so-called colonial city-states of Sicily and Southern Italy is the theme of the present e-book. On the basis of detailed case-studies covering the revolutions in cities like Croton, Cumae, Acragas and Syracuse, the following subjects are dealt with: social stratification and political institutions, the massive presence of foreigners and non-Greeks within the borders of the po…
A Note on the Opening Sentence of Pirqei Avot in Two Eighteenth-Century Yiddish Editions of the Tract
The opening sentence of Pirqei Avot evokes a history of Torah transmission which is also of particular importance in legitimizing the existence and roles of the Oral Torah as an integral section of Torah. Up to the end of the eighteenth century, Yiddish translators of the tract frequently expanded the original Hebrew text while following the strategy of Yiddish translations of the Bible known as Khumesh mit khiber , or ‘a Yiddish rendition with a…
Modern Jewish Literatures
Jiddisch und die Formierung der aschkenasischen Diaspora
Philosophy in a Yiddish Key
The 1971 special issue of the Buenos Aires–based Yiddish journal Davke, devoted to natural philosophy, was one of a long series of special issues intended to acquaint Yiddish readers with the principles of Western philosophy. The four articles contributed by the editor, Shlomo Suskovich, amounting to more than half of the contents, tried to cover three basic issues central to his system of thought: a succinct history of the contemplation on natur…
Books for the Masses
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Amsterdam functioned as the European printing centre of Yiddish books. Texts in the Ashkenazi vernacular were published in the city for the benefit of the local reading public, and these books were also distributed throughout the Ashkenazi diaspora, in central and eastern Europe. Two basic guidelines directed the work of Yiddish book agents in Amsterdam: printing was considered a service to Ashkenaz…
Functioning Within a Diasporic Third Space
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Selling Books in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam
Storm in the Community
Reviewed by: Storm in the Community: Yiddish Polemical Pamphlets of Amsterdam Jewry, 1797–1798 Shlomo Berger Jozeph Michman and Marion Aptroot, trans. and eds. Storm in the Community: Yiddish Polemical Pamphlets of Amsterdam Jewry, 1797–1798. Cincinnati, Ohio: Hebrew Union College Press; Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. Pp. vii + 527. As a consequence of revolutionary events affecting Dutch politics in the years before and after the F…
Once Again on Yael and the Aphrodisias Inscription
Interpreting Freud
Argument The Argentine-based Yiddish philosophical journal Davke functioned as a mediator between general European philosophy and Jewish philosophy. Its editor Shlomo Suskovich wished to introduce readers of Yiddish to the western tradition of philosophy and, at the same time, to show how Jewish thought contributed to abstract thinking. Through topical issues dedicated to central ideas or to giants among Jewish philosophers, particular knowledge …
Zutot 2004
On pre‐modern Hebrew and Yiddish encyclopedias
The use of the term “encyclopedias” for pre‐modern writings is problematical. Nonetheless, medieval and early modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature comprises a number of texts that reveal encyclopedic features and therefore can be considered to belong to the genre of encyclopedias. Their authors strove to transmit introductory knowledge on a broad variety of subjects and to make it easily accessible to their readers. As was the case in the non‐Jew…
Zutot 2003 (Zutot
An Invitation to Buy and Read
A book without preface is like a body without soul. —Rabbi Meir Crescas, The Book of the Tashbets (Amsterdam, 1741) 1 Much can be gleaned from an introduction or preface about the book to which it is prelude, the author, his ideas, and their context.1 These texts have a distinctive structure and a specific logic, however, and they enable students of book history to propose another angle of research that aims at showing the place and position of t…
On the Use of Hebrew Words in Parenthesis in a Yiddish Text
East European Jews in Amsterdam
Travels among Jews and Gentiles: Abraham Levie's Travelogue Amsterdam 1764
On the 2nd of January 1719, seventeen year-old Abraham Levie launched his grand tour which lasted five years. In that time he visited Germany, Bohemia, Moravia, Austria and Italy; he stayed in Prague, Vienna, Venice and Rome. His travelogue includes descriptions of Jewish communities and their relationship with the surrounding Christian society. This book includes the original Yiddish text, a commentary on the language, history, culture and liter…
The 'Formula' of Zutot
Dutch Jews as Perceived by Themselves and by Others
How did Jews in the Netherlands view themselves and how were they viewed by others? This is the single theme around which the twenty-five essays in this volume, written by scholars from the Netherlands, Israel and other countries, revolve. The studies encompass a variety of topics and periods, from the beginning of the Jewish settlement in the Dutch Republic through the Shoah and its aftermath. They include examinations of the Sephardi Jews in th…
Revolution and Society in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy
The analysis of a Greek political phenomenon within the confines of the so-called colonial city-states of Sicily and Southern Italy is the theme of the present e-book. On the basis of detailed case-studies covering the revolutions in cities like Croton, Cumae, Acragas and Syracuse, the following subjects are dealt with: social stratification and political institutions, the massive presence of foreigners and non-Greeks within the borders of the po…
An Invitation to Buy and Read
A book without preface is like a body without soul. —Rabbi Meir Crescas, The Book of the Tashbets (Amsterdam, 1741) 1 Much can be gleaned from an introduction or preface about the book to which it is prelude, the author, his ideas, and their context.1 These texts have a distinctive structure and a specific logic, however, and they enable students of book history to propose another angle of research that aims at showing the place and position of t…
Revolution and Society in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy
The analysis of a Greek political phenomenon within the confines of the so-called colonial city-states of Sicily and Southern Italy is the theme of the present e-book. On the basis of detailed case-studies covering the revolutions in cities like Croton, Cumae, Acragas and Syracuse, the following subjects are dealt with: social stratification and political institutions, the massive presence of foreigners and non-Greeks within the borders of the po…
East European Jews in Amsterdam
Revolution and Society in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy
The analysis of a Greek political phenomenon within the confines of the so-called colonial city-states of Sicily and Southern Italy is the theme of the present e-book. On the basis of detailed case-studies covering the revolutions in cities like Croton, Cumae, Acragas and Syracuse, the following subjects are dealt with: social stratification and political institutions, the massive presence of foreigners and non-Greeks within the borders of the po…
Dutch Jews as Perceived by Themselves and by Others
How did Jews in the Netherlands view themselves and how were they viewed by others? This is the single theme around which the twenty-five essays in this volume, written by scholars from the Netherlands, Israel and other countries, revolve. The studies encompass a variety of topics and periods, from the beginning of the Jewish settlement in the Dutch Republic through the Shoah and its aftermath. They include examinations of the Sephardi Jews in th…
The 'Formula' of Zutot
Travels among Jews and Gentiles: Abraham Levie's Travelogue Amsterdam 1764
On the 2nd of January 1719, seventeen year-old Abraham Levie launched his grand tour which lasted five years. In that time he visited Germany, Bohemia, Moravia, Austria and Italy; he stayed in Prague, Vienna, Venice and Rome. His travelogue includes descriptions of Jewish communities and their relationship with the surrounding Christian society. This book includes the original Yiddish text, a commentary on the language, history, culture and liter…
On the Use of Hebrew Words in Parenthesis in a Yiddish Text
East European Jews in Amsterdam
Zutot 2003 (Zutot
An Invitation to Buy and Read
A book without preface is like a body without soul. —Rabbi Meir Crescas, The Book of the Tashbets (Amsterdam, 1741) 1 Much can be gleaned from an introduction or preface about the book to which it is prelude, the author, his ideas, and their context.1 These texts have a distinctive structure and a specific logic, however, and they enable students of book history to propose another angle of research that aims at showing the place and position of t…
Zutot 2004
On pre‐modern Hebrew and Yiddish encyclopedias
The use of the term “encyclopedias” for pre‐modern writings is problematical. Nonetheless, medieval and early modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature comprises a number of texts that reveal encyclopedic features and therefore can be considered to belong to the genre of encyclopedias. Their authors strove to transmit introductory knowledge on a broad variety of subjects and to make it easily accessible to their readers. As was the case in the non‐Jew…
Once Again on Yael and the Aphrodisias Inscription
Interpreting Freud
Argument The Argentine-based Yiddish philosophical journal Davke functioned as a mediator between general European philosophy and Jewish philosophy. Its editor Shlomo Suskovich wished to introduce readers of Yiddish to the western tradition of philosophy and, at the same time, to show how Jewish thought contributed to abstract thinking. Through topical issues dedicated to central ideas or to giants among Jewish philosophers, particular knowledge …
Functioning Within a Diasporic Third Space
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Selling Books in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam
Storm in the Community
Reviewed by: Storm in the Community: Yiddish Polemical Pamphlets of Amsterdam Jewry, 1797–1798 Shlomo Berger Jozeph Michman and Marion Aptroot, trans. and eds. Storm in the Community: Yiddish Polemical Pamphlets of Amsterdam Jewry, 1797–1798. Cincinnati, Ohio: Hebrew Union College Press; Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002. Pp. vii + 527. As a consequence of revolutionary events affecting Dutch politics in the years before and after the F…
Philosophy in a Yiddish Key
The 1971 special issue of the Buenos Aires–based Yiddish journal Davke, devoted to natural philosophy, was one of a long series of special issues intended to acquaint Yiddish readers with the principles of Western philosophy. The four articles contributed by the editor, Shlomo Suskovich, amounting to more than half of the contents, tried to cover three basic issues central to his system of thought: a succinct history of the contemplation on natur…
Books for the Masses
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Amsterdam functioned as the European printing centre of Yiddish books. Texts in the Ashkenazi vernacular were published in the city for the benefit of the local reading public, and these books were also distributed throughout the Ashkenazi diaspora, in central and eastern Europe. Two basic guidelines directed the work of Yiddish book agents in Amsterdam: printing was considered a service to Ashkenaz…
Jiddisch und die Formierung der aschkenasischen Diaspora
Modern Jewish Literatures
A Note on the Opening Sentence of Pirqei Avot in Two Eighteenth-Century Yiddish Editions of the Tract
The opening sentence of Pirqei Avot evokes a history of Torah transmission which is also of particular importance in legitimizing the existence and roles of the Oral Torah as an integral section of Torah. Up to the end of the eighteenth century, Yiddish translators of the tract frequently expanded the original Hebrew text while following the strategy of Yiddish translations of the Bible known as Khumesh mit khiber , or ‘a Yiddish rendition with a…
Revolution and Society in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy
The analysis of a Greek political phenomenon within the confines of the so-called colonial city-states of Sicily and Southern Italy is the theme of the present e-book. On the basis of detailed case-studies covering the revolutions in cities like Croton, Cumae, Acragas and Syracuse, the following subjects are dealt with: social stratification and political institutions, the massive presence of foreigners and non-Greeks within the borders of the po…
Early Modern Yiddish and the Emergence of the Anonymous Reader
This article examines how the practice of private, silent reading in the early modern period encouraged the growth of a broad Yiddish readership and promoted the legitimacy of Yiddish as an Ashkenazi vernacular. When spaces between words were introduced in copying or printing, reading became easier and was no longer the privilege of skilled artisans or intellectuals. The ever-widening circles of people reading in their own chambers were essential…
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