Kerem Hemed Hocmat Israel As the New Yavneh (Hebrew)

by Moshe Pelli

Kerem Hemed Hochmat Israel As the New Yavneh is a monograph and an annotated index to Kerem Hemed (1833 1856), the journal of Hebrew Haskalah in Galicia and Italy. It includes a comprehensive monograph on the journal and its writers, the subject matters discussed in it and its editorial orientation as part of the Study of Judaism movement. The journal represents the creative efforts of the Hebrew scholars of Hochmat Israel, the Study of Judaism, in the 19th century. The book is the third in the monographs and indexing project of Hebrew Haskalah periodicals published by Magnes Press. Previously, it published The Gate to An Annotated Index to Hame asef, the First Hebrew Journal of the Haskalah (1783 1811), 2000; and Bikurei Ha itim The First Fruits of An Annotated Index to Bikurei Ha itim, the Hebrew Journal of the Haskalah in Galicia (1820 1831), 2005. The monograph delineates the background of the publication of Kerem Hemed, its editors and its major writers, such as Shlomo Yehudah Rapoport (SHIR), Shmuel David Luzzatto (SHaDaL), and Nahman Krochmal (RaNaK), and its relations to periodicals published before and afterward. It discusses the variety of topics in Jewish Studies published in the journal, such as Bible, biblical criticism and commentary, Talmud, its sages, and studies about them, and the Mishnah. There were also studies on the Hebrew language, Jewish history, and newly discovered medieval Hebrew manuscripts, such as biblical commentary by noted biblical scholars as Abraham Ibn Ezra, talmudic interpretation and historical review of Judaism as presented by the scholars of Hochmat Israel, as well as some secular subjects and science.

404 pages, Hardcover

Published January 10, 2010