Contents: ARITCLES Reuven Kiperwasser - The Bitter Fate of Elihoref and Ahiya: The Metamorphosis of a Story from the Land of Israel that Went to Babylonia Tamar Kadari - Song and Meaning:A new Look on Rabbinic Exegesis of the Song of Songs Hanan Mazeh - ' 'עיקר עיבורה של דינה זכר היה (The original conception of Dinah was as a male): The Origin and Development of an Aggadic Tradition in Rabbinic Literature Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky - ‘Bekibbutz galuyot u behikabetz betulot ’: On the Identification of the Forbidden Piyyutim in a Responsa by Rav Natronai Gaon Ophir Münz-Manor - The Payytanic Epithet and its Relations to Figurative Language in Pre-Classical Piyyut Yotam Poplker - ‘Yam Acharon’ on the Way to America: ‘Immigrants’ as a Key Story to the Work of L. A. Arieli-Orlof Itamar Drori - Return of the Author – ‘Bell and Pomegranate’ by Hayim Hazaz Dvir Tzur - The Birth of the New Jew in the New Land: On Pioneer–Native Relations in S. Yizhar's Stories, or on the Face(s) of the Native Home. Ilana Szobel - The Girl with the Billy-Goat’s Hoof: Parental Abuse, Metamorphosis and Poetics in the Poetry of Tsvia Litevsk Nancy Ezer - Bursting Out of the Center and Breaking into it in Two Literary Autobiographies: Yoram Kaniuk’s Post Mortem and Leah Aini’s Rose of Lebanon

Articles Dina Stein - Rabbinic Tales in the Israel Folktale Archives: Holy Men and Tricksters Osnat Sharon - Elephant, Leviathan and Nineveh the Great City: Sibbuv Rabbi Petachia and Midrash Yonah, Printed Side by Side Nina Pinto-Abecasis - The Piropo as a Bridge between Cultures in Tetuan (Northern Morocco) Adam Ratzon - Al ma yismash kbiru , ya alt tadbiru [Whoever would not listen to elders will not manage in life]: A Literary-Cultural Reading of the Proverbs and Personal Narratives of an Egyptian-Israeli Woman Jacqueline Laznow - ‘I didn’t know I wanted to be a rabbi, there was no name for what I wanted to be’: Life Stories of Women Rabbis Living in Israel Towards a History of Folklore Meir Nizri - Israel and the Sabbath as Bride and Groom in Various Sabbath Hymns

Two Plays by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra: The Bathes of Algeria The Great Sultana Dona Catalina de Oviedo A bilingual book in Spanish and Hebrew. Full symmetry of meter and Rhyme of both languages.

In the volume Kabbalah, Mysticism and Poetry: A Journey to the End of Vision , top researchers from a variety of disciplines generate a thrilling encounter between Jewish, Christian and Islamic texts, drawing on poetic, religious and mystical interpretation tools in an interdisciplinary feast of aesthetics, literature and poetics on the one hand, and mysticism and theology on the other. In this fascinating, complex, and entangled journey to the end of vision we meet some of the leading authors who made a crucial contribution to human world culture, and who were deeply interested in Kabbalah and mysticism, such as the Zohar Kabbalists, Israel Najara, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Paul Celan, Jorge Luis Borges, Julia Kristeva, Al-Hallaj, Ibn Arabi, Dante, Cervantes, John Donne, and Marcel Proust.

Perspectives. Revue de l’Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem (auparavant HSLA, édition française), paraît une fois l’an. La Rédaction accepte des articles ayant trait aux sciences humaines et plus particulièrement à la littérature, la stylistique littéraire, les arts et l’histoire. Toute correspondance doit être adressée à la Rédaction de Perspectives, Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem, Mont Scopus, 91905 Jérusalem, Israël. La Rédaction se réserve le droit d’apporter de légères modifications aux mss. acceptés pour la publication. Perspectives. Revue de l’Université Hébraïque de Jérusalem ne publie pas de comptes rendus. L’ensemble des articles réunis dans ce 22e volume de Perspectives rendent hommage à Claude Vigée, à son œuvre poétique comme à sa pensée. Toutes deux traversent le siècle et lui laissent leur marque indélébile. C’est ce dont témoignent tous les auteurs qui ont accepté de participer à ce numéro.

The Latin Iliad is a concise adaptation of the Homeric Iliad. The identity of its author remains uncertain but the work is attributed to Baebius Italicus, a Roman dignitary of the second half of the first century CE. The Hebrew translation of this short epic retains the unique poetic language of the original as well as its meter.

The didactic emphasis on Nietzsche's presence in the life and work of Yoseph Hayim Brenner in unprecedented scope and depth aims to stress Brenner's Hebraism. What has been his utmost concern is the typical existentialist question, free of any national boundaries and religions: "Who is a Man? Brenner is the most important modern Hebrew writer who wished to create his own personal authenticity. He did not believe that secularization will lead to disintegration or to assimilation but to the creation of a new type of an authentic Hebrew, who will be able to write for himself, mainly by his own resources, his own unique book of life. Brennner's 'secret sweetness' is nurtured by three central 'burning fires' (as is the Yiddish meaning of his name): 1. His personal and immediate direct relation to God of Abraham, Yitzhak and Yaacov, and not to the rabbinical rites and lore. 2. His burning desire to foster a vibrant modern Hebrew literature. 3. His longing for a genuine authentic Mensch that will replace the unattainable Nietzschean ideal of the Übermensch. Hence one of the main tenets of this research is that we cannot explain or understand Brenner solely by using the Nietzschean prism. Brenner's ultimate effort to write in a half-dead language (Hebrew) to a half-alive people (the Jewish people) is his "why of life" that helped him accept almost "any how". Brenner used Nietzsche to overcome his attraction to prevalent political-cultural ideologies that ended with an 'ism', such as communism, socialism, anarchism, or Bundism. Thus he used Nietzsche in a Nietzschean way to overcome his initially strong attachment to the "Herald of Zarathustra" (the fictive literary personification of the authentic hero). Brenner gladly embraced Zarathustra's bid to his pupils: "Now I bid you lose me and find yourselves; and only when you have all denied me will I return to you".

This study explores the intellectual biography of the founder of Revisionist Zionism Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky as an author. It examines the comprehensive relation of his literary writing to his ideological activities and to other genres and settings – journalistic writing, literary and art criticism and the biographic discourse of the “self” embedded in literature and as evidenced by his contemporaries.

This is the fifth book in the series of monographs and annotated indices on periodicals of the Haskalah. It covers two major Hebrew periodicals Hehalutz (1852–1889) and Bikurim (1864–1865), and addresses major developments in the history of the Hebrew Haskalah in mid-century: the emergence of radical Haskalah in Galicia which found its mouthpiece in Hehalutz, and the contribution of its prolific editor, Joshua Heschel Schorr, who published 13 volumes of his journal. Bikurim, published in two volumes, was edited by Naphtali Keller, and represented the moderate Haskalah and Hochmat Israel (the scholarly study of Judaism). The Indices to the two journals published in this book are cross-referenced, annotated, Alphabetized, and author-and-subject listed. They cover all articles, essays, and scholarly studies on a variety of topics in Jewish Studies, such as Biblical and Talmudic criticism and commentary, questions regarding the Halachah (the religious code), and studies on the Hebrew language, Jewish history, and Jewish education. They also cite newly discovered medieval Hebrew manuscripts, their critique and studies of their authors. Also included are various genres in belles lettres: poems, stories, satires, biographies, and miscellaneous writings such as editorial comments and announcements. All these subjects are discussed and analyzed in the monographs of the two journals. Now, upon their publication, the annotated indices should serve as a reliable reference tool for viewing and reviewing the major topics and issues that occupied the minds of the editors and the writers of these journals in Galicia and elsewhere in Europe in mid-19th century. Readers may now examine the scope and the character of the material published in these journals. Likewise, it is now convenient to assess the contribution of participating scholars, authors, and poets, to the Haskalah literature, and to explore their stand on various scholarly or Haskalah-related matters.

The book concentrates on Preliminaries and Zalhavim, two novels published in 1992 and 1993 by S. Yizhar (Yizhar Smilansky), one of Israel's best known authors. It concentrates on Yizhar's poetics of space and place and through it shows how it reveals the Israeli complex relationship between place and space. Questions of belonging and alienation, the relationship between the self and the other, the nexus between man and his place and the cracks that reside in that place, all these are present in Yizhar's novels and are a mirror and a model for Israeli society, and his poetics of space are a powerful hermeneutic tool.