Proceedings of the Ninth World Congress of Jewish Studies, 1985. Division C, Jewish Thought and Literature. Jerusalem, August 4-12,1985.

Royal octavo, paper covers, iv, 192, 460 pp. In English and Hebrew. Articles in English are," The Semikha - A Compositional Form of Rabbinic Homily," Arnold Goldberg, "Rabbinic Continuity and Revisions in the Notion of Sacred Space - Applying Deuteronomy 23:10-15," Baruch M. Bokser, "Scripture and the Interpretation of Mishnah - The Case of Tractate Kilayim," Irving J. Mandelbaum, "The Origins of the Sugya as a Literary Unit," David C. Kraemer, "New Bibliographic and Textual Tools for Talmudic Research," Shamma Friedman, "Who Said It First? The Antiquity of 'Be Thou My Wife,'" Abraham M. Mann, "Why the 'Erusin' and the 'Nissu'in' were combined? A Study in Historical Causation," Herman H. Pollack, "It there and Ethic beyond Halakhah?" J. David Bleich, "Language and Theme in the Piyyut -Takas and ite Derivation," W. Jac. van Bekkum, "Paternite et Filiation dans Quelques Biographies Juives de Jesus au Moyen-Age," Jean-Christophe Attias, "'Sun Stand Still' - A Philosophical-Astronomical Midrash," Seymour Feldman, "Nissim of Marseilles' Approach to the 'Iqqarim,'" Barry Mesch, "The View of Maimonides as a Determinist in 'Sefer Minhat Qenaot, by Abner of Burgos," Shoshanna Gershenzon, "Stories in Jewish Sermons (The 15th-16th Centuries)," Marc Saperstein, "The Lublin Manuscript of the Frankist 'Ksiega Slow-Panskich' - Some Themes," Hillel Levine, "The Three-Fld Tales of Jacob Frank," Harris Lenowitz, "Separation and Reconciliation - American Orthodoxy and the Concept of Zion," Gershon Greenberg, "Bemerkungen zur Sprache eines lateinschriftlichen Jiddish-Glossars," Walter Röll, "The Ideology of Mendel Mokher Sefarim," Emanuel S. Goldsmith, "Breakdown in Mendele and Agnon," David Aberbach, "Jews in the Dutch Countryside in Dutch Literature (1895-1930)," Henriette Boas, "Two Voices pf the Holocaust - Paul Celan and Immalenel Weissglas," Amy D. Colin, "Paul Celan - the Poet as Jew," Alfred Hoelzel, "Gender and Characterization in the 'Palmah' Narrative Fiction," Esther Fuchs, "The Existententialism of Jewish Christian Relations after the Holocaust - Arnold Wesker's 'The Merchant,'" Efraim Sicher. Articles in the Hebrew section are "On the Authenticity of the Explicit Debates of Bet Shammai and Bet Hillel," Mosheh Weiss, "Ancient Redactions in the Babylonian Talmud," David Rosenthal, "The Tendency Towards Units of Style and its Influence on the Textual Readings of the Babylonian Talmud," Noah Aminoah, "'Halacha le-Moshe mi-Sinai' - History or Theology?" Shmuel Safrai, "Concerning Prohibition against Gentile Bread," Zvia A Steinfeld, "Opening Formulas of the Darshanic Stories in Genesis Rabba," Ofra Meir, "An Exegetical Midrash on Numbers in Midrash Tanhuma," Margarete Schlüter, "Textual Witness of the Tanhuma-Yelamdenu Midrashim," Marc Bregman, "On the Character of Late Midrashic Literature," Jacob Elbaum, "Festive Titles in Liturgical Terminology," Stefan Reif, "Excerpts of Geonic Responsa in Rabbinic Treaties and Manuscripts," Neil Danzig, "The Extent of Liability of Negligence," Naphtali Lipschüts, "The Delimitation of Hekhalot Literature," Peter Schäfer, "Periodization of the History of Jewish Mysticism," Joseph Dan, "The Polemic on the 'Zohar' in Italy," Moshe Hallamish, "Kabbalah and Hassidism - Continuation or Change?" Rachel Elior, "The Inaccurate Metre in the Hebrew Liturgical Poetry in Spain," Zeev Breuer, "Poetical Manifestations of Spirit and Body in Abraham Ibn-Ezra's 'Tochechot,'" Masha Itzhaki, "The Poetry of Todros Abulafia - Decline or Renewal?" Aviva Doron, "Solomon Ibn-Gabirol's Influence on Biailik," Sara Katz, "Johannes Clai's Hebrew Prosody," Zvi Malachi, "Abraham Khalfon of Tripoli - An Historian and Poet," Michal Saraf, "The 'Halleot' in Yemenite Hebrew Poetry," Michael Maswari-Caspie, "Hebrew Versions of Classical Humor," Eisig Silberschlag, "The Sacrifice of Isaac in Modern Jewish and General Philosophy," Ze'ev Levy, "The Concept of 'Mitzva' in Jospeh Carlebach's Thought," Miriam Gilles-Carlecach, "R. Joseph Car.…