Program

Research Programs: Collaborative Research

Period of Performance

9/1/2002 - 8/31/2005

Funding Totals

$65,000.00 (approved)
$65,000.00 (awarded)


Steinschneider's HEBREW TRANSLATIONS

FAIN: RZ-20914-02

Charles Manekin
Unaffiliated independent scholar

To support translations, revision, and supplement to Moritz Steinschneider's DIE HEBRAEISCHEN UBERSETZUNGEN DES MITTELALTERS UND DIE JUDEN ALS DOMETSCHER, a 19th-century bibliographic study of medieval Jewish literature.

The project consists of revising, translation, and supplementing Die Hebraeischen Ubersetzungen des Mittelalters (The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages). The project will be part of the Steinschneider Bibliographical Database, a website in premodern Hebrew philosophy, science, medicine, and even belles-lettres.