Notes on Contributors

David B. Ruderman: Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History, Yale University. Author of The World of a Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham b. Mordecai Farissol (Cincinnati, 1981); Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician (Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1988); The Valley of Vision: The Heavenly Journey of Abraham ben Hananiah Yagel (Philadelphia, 1990), and numerous essays on Jewish cultural history in early modern Europe.

Marc Saperstein: Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis. Author of Decoding the Rabbis: A Thirteenth-Century Commentary on the Aggadah (Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1980), Jewish Preaching 1200–1800 An Anthology (New Haven and London, 1989), and numerous essays on medieval and early modern Jewish history and literature.

Moshe Idel: Professor of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Author of Kabbalah: New Perspectives (New Haven and London, 1988); The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia (Albany, 1988); Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah (Albany, 1988); Language, Torah and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia (Albany, 1989); Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid (Albany, 1990), and numerous essays on the history of kabbalah.

Robert Bonfil: Professor of Jewish History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Author of Rabbis and Jewish Communities in Renaissance Italy (Oxford, 1990; English translation of Hebrew original, Jerusalem, 1979), Kitvei Azariah Min Ha-Adumin (Jerusalem, 1991); Gli ebrei in Italia nell epoca del Rinascimento (Florence, 1991; English translation to be published by University of California Press, 1993), and numerous essays on medieval and early modern Jewish history.

Joanna Weinberg: Lecturer in Rabbinics and Jewish History, Leo Baeck College, London. Editor and Translator of Azariah de’Rossi’s Me’or Einayim, to be published in the Yale Judaic series, and author of numerous essays on Jewish intellectual history in Italy.

Elliott Horowitz: Senior Lecturer in Jewish History, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. Author of numerous essays on Jewish social history in early modern Europe and of a forthcoming book on Jewish confraternal piety.