Mezukak Shivatayim Hardcover by Edward Breuer

Product Details

• Publisher: Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies (2026-03-10)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 210 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780674303324
• Item Weight: 567.0 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

Mezukak Shivatayim brings together the work of over a dozen students of Professor Bernard Septimus as a tribute to his superb and masterful scholarship. In his writing and teaching, Septimus exhibited an extraordinary breadth of interests, an exquisite ability to draw nuance and cultural resonance from Hebrew texts, and deep historical insights. These qualities are on display in the essays in this volume, which cover a wide range of philosophical, literary, and historical topics ranging from the tenth to the twentieth centuries. The themes include rabbinic culture, Jewish thought and literature, and Jewish communities in their Christian and Muslim contexts.

About the Author

Edward Breuer teaches Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His most recent translation is Moses Mendelssohn’s Hebrew Writings.

Elisha Russ-Fishbane is Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University.

Adena Tanenbaum is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University and she is the author of The Contemplative Soul: Hebrew Poetry and Philosophical Theory in Medieval Spain and Beguiling Guidance: Zechariah Alḍāhirī’s Sefer Hamusar.