
"To translate truly you must leave behind the Anxiety of Influence and partake in the surprise and delight inherent in the Joy of Recognition"
Meshulam Gotlieb
Academic Works:
Bible and Midrash Aggadah
Shimon Gesundheit, "Introduction", "Conclusion" & "The Laws of Unleavened Bread and the Firstborn in Exod 13:1-16" in Three Times a Year (Mohr Siebeck, 2012) [Translator]
Jacob Elbaum, "The Quiet Revolution: Louis Ginzberg's The Legends of the Jews and Jewish Anthological Literature” in Galit Hasan-Rokem, ed., Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews: Ancient Jewish Folk Literature Reconsidered (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology) (Wayne State University Press, 2014) [Translator]
Haim Weiss, Narrative in the Bar Hedya Story (tentatively titled) (under review by Brill) [Translator]
Haim Weiss, “ ‘I Saw Pigeons Keep on Coming to my Bed’: Women in Ancient Jewish Dream Literature”, El Presente 3 (2009): 157-168. [Translator]
Haim Weiss, 'Where Have You Gone Father Roland De-Vaux', Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture 8, No. 1 (2011): 75-80. [Translator]
Haim Weiss, 'There Was a Man in Israel – Bar-Kosibah Was His Name!' Jewish Studies Quarterly 21, No. 2 (2014): 99-115. [translator]
Arnon Atzmon, “‘The Wise Woman from Saida’: The Silent Dialogue between Aggadah and Halakhah Regarding Women and Marriage,” AJS Review (2011) 35:23-34 [Translator]
Arnon Atzmon, "Old Wine in New Flasks: The Story of Late Neo-Classical Midrash," European Journal of Jewish Studies 3:2 (2009): 183-203. [Translator]
Leah Himmelfarb, "The Link Between the Jewish-Christian Polemic and the Masorah Notes in Rashi's Bible Commentary," Journal of Jewish Studies 59:2 (2008) [Translator]
Leah Himmelfarb, "The Ethical-Religious Precondition for Miracle Performance in Rashi's Biblical Commentary," Journal of the Old Testament Society in Southern Africa 21:1 (2008) [Translator]
Jewish Law and Jewish Thought
Elhanan Nir, "The Turn to Hasidism in the Religious Zionist Israeli Yeshiva," Volume edited by Arthur Green and Ariel Mayse (forthcoming) [Translator]
The Paths of Daniel: Studies in Judaism and Jewish Culture Presented to Rabbi Professor Daniel Sperber (Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, forthcoming). [Editor of English-language section]
Yitshak Cohen, “Midrashic Exegesis and Legal Creativity in the Meshekh Hokhma" Jewish Law Annual 20 (2012): 10-40. [Translator]
Yitshak Cohen, “The Rabbinic Decisors and the Halachic Material in the Or Sameach” The Jewish Law Association 26 (48) (2013). ( [Translator]
Shalem Yahalom, "Historical Background to Nahmanides' Acre "Sermon for Rosh ha-Shanah": The Strengthening of the Catalonian Center," Sefarad 68:2 (2008) [Translator]
Ari Z. Zivotofsky, "The Turning of the Tide: The Kashrut Tale of the Swordfish," BDD (Bekhol Derakhekha Daehu): Journal of Torah and Scholarship 19 (January) 2008. [Editor]
D. Ehrlich, "A Reassesment of Natural Law in R. Joseph Albo's 'Book of Principles,'" Hebraic Political Studies 1:4 (2006): 413-439. [Translator]
Harold Fisch, Divine Contradictions: Judaism and the Language of Paradox. [Heb.] (Bar Ilan UP: Ramat Gan, 2001) [Index]
Liturgy and the Synagogue
Kenishta: Studies of the Synagogue World, 4, Joseph Tabory (ed.), (Bar Ilan UP, 2010) [English-language Editor]
Bracha Yaniv, “‘This Is the Table that Stands before the Lord’: On the Synagogue Bimah or Teivah Cover" Review of Rabbinic Judaism 14:2 (2011): 208-220. [Translator]
Prayer in Judaism: Continuity and Change, Gabriel H.Cohn and Harold Fisch (eds.), (Jason Aronson Inc., 1996) [Proofreader]
Jewish History
Minna Rozen, "Romans In Istanbul," in Stefan Reif , Andreas Lehnardt, and Avriel Bar- Levav (eds.), Death in Jewish Life: Burial and Mourning Customs in Medieval Ashkenaz and Later Communities, (Turnhout: The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center's Diaspora series with Brepols Publishers, to appear in 2012) [Translator of epitaphs accompanying the chapter]
Minna Rozen, A Journey Through Civilizations: Chapters in the History of Istanbul Jewry, 1453-1923, Chapter Four : "Actions of Influential Jews in the Sultan’s Court of Seventeenth-Century Istanbul on Behalf of Jerusalem Jewry," (Turnhout: The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center's Diaspora series with Brepols Publishers, to appear in 2012) [Translator of seventeenth century epistles accompanying the chapter]
Yoel Elitzur, "The Abba Cave: Unpublished Findings and a New Proposal Regarding Abba’s Identity," Israel Exploration Journal 63:1 (2013): 83-102. [Translator]
Gadi Sagiv, "Hasidism and Cemetary Inauguration Ceremonies: Authority, Magic, and the Performance of Charismatic Leadership" The Jewish Quarterly Review 103:3 (Summer 2013): 328-351.
Contemporary Jewry
The Role of a Religious University, Yaacov Iram, Yehuda Friedlander, and Shimon Ohayon (eds.), (Bar Ilan UP, 2013) [English-language Editor]
Syrian Jewry: History, Identity and Heritage , Yaron Harel (ed.), (Bar Ilan UP, forthcoming) [English-language editor]
Dissertation Abstracts, Lectures, and Scholarship Proposals
Abstracts of PhD or MA Theses (2003-2011) - Bible, Talmud, Midrash, Jewish Law, Hebrew Literature & Jewish History. [Translator]
Lectures delivered at the EAJS Congress, the AJS Conference, the World Congress of Jewish Studies & other venues. [Translator]
Scholarship and grant requests submitted to The Israel Academy for the Sciences and Humanities, the Tikvah Foundation, Centre for Jewish Studies - University of Toronto, and others. [Translator]