Authors: Harry Freedman
Tags: #Banned, #Censored and Burned. The book they couldn’t suppress
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I
have
acquired
knowledge
from
all
my
teachers.
So wrote
the author of Psalm 119, who people say was King David. I owe a debt of gratitude to all my teachers, the sages who lived in ages past, the scholars and academics whom I have never met but whose works I have encountered and of course those whose words I heard from their own mouths. (I would like to have said, as a student of earlier generations might, ‘at whose feet I sat’ but of course we don’t sit at our teachers’ feet these days.) The knowledge is theirs, any errors only mine.
More particularly I would like to thank my agent, Sheila Ableman, for her unbounded enthusiasm for the book and for her ongoing support. To Robin Baird-Smith for his positivity, energy and for believing in the idea, to Joel Simons for his adept managing of the project, and his patience even when I was at my most trying, and to Anya Rosenberg, Helen Flood and the rest of the team at Bloomsbury. Grateful thanks too to Kim Storry for project managing the prepress, and to Sue Cope for her diligent copy editing and for being prepared to work all hours to meet the deadline.
Thanks also to Professor Jerry Gotel for reading the manuscript, to Dayan Ivan Binstock for the conversations which taught me so much, to Paul Summer for solving the Jacob Landau riddle, to Ivor Jacobs for helping me lay my hands on vital out-of-print texts and to my brother Jeremy Freedman for explaining how Henry VIII’s Talmudic investigations influenced English divorce law. Particular thanks must go to my parents Joan and Louis Freedman who made sure that I received an education which enabled me to read and understand the Talmud, to my children Josh and Mollie whose continual interest and probing questions obliged me to sharpen my wits and to my wife Karen for her unflagging support and encouragement. Finally, words can never adequately acknowledge just how much I owe to the greatest of all my Talmud teachers, Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs, whose scholarship, wit,
breadth
of knowledge and profound humanity turned the Talmud from a dusty tome to a source of inspiration for so many people. May his memory be for a blessing.
Abassids
56
–
7
see also
under respective caliphs
Abba Sikra
18
Abraham ben David of Posquières
96
–
7
Abraham ibn Daud
91
–
2
see also
legend of the four captives
Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Qirqisani
73
–
4
academies
see
yeshiva
Al-Andalus
see
Spain
Al-Idrisi, Muhammad
81
Al-Mansur, Caliph
56
ambiguity
65
,
213
see also
disagreement
America
132
,
184
–
5
,
198
see also
Reformed Judaism
ancient French
102
Andres de Bernaldez (Priest)
132
,
141
anti-Christian sentiments, alleged
116
,
146
–
7
Arba’ah Turim
(Four Rows)
135
Artabanus, King of Parthia
34
ArtScroll Talmud
209
Ashkenazim
135
see also
Babylonian Talmud; exilarchy
Babylonian Talmud
11
,
48
,
65
,
67
–
71
baraita
42
Baron, Salo
112
Bernard of Clairvaux
104
Besht
see
Israel Ba’al Shem Tov
Bet Yosef
(Caro)
135
Bible
1
,
72
,
85
,
112
,
182
,
208
see also
Vulgate Bible
Bodin, Jean
150
Guide for the Perplexed
(Maimonides)
119
–
20
Jacob Frank
172
see also
persecutions
Book of Creation – Sefer Yetzirah
(Jewish mystical text)
126
Book of Lights and Watchtowers
73
–
4
bowls, magic
38
Brahe, Tyco
158
Bulan, King of Khazaria
90
burnings of books
see
book burnings
Caldron, Ruth
211
caliphs
Al-Mansur
56
Carolingian Renaissance
99
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
145
see also
book burnings
Chapters of the Fathers
13
–
14
,
19
Christian Hebraists
135
–
40
,
145
,
205
Christianity in Talmud and Midrash
(Herford)
205
Christianity in the Talmud
116
,
146
–
7
Church authorities
146
–
147
,
172
see also
Inquisition
Isaac Al-Fasi
93
Saadia ben Yosef
78
Shmuel Hanaggid
92
vs. textual analysis
106
Cohen, Jeremy
113
Cohen, Mark
60
commandments, ten
9
Commentary on the Mishnah
(Maimonides)
95
composition
see
structure
conquests
Barbary
91
copyright law
142
Cordoba
91
Council of Venice
143
cultural cross-fertilization
60
,
69
,
88
see also
religious differences, tolerance of
Cunaeus, Petrus
153
daf yomi
programme
199
–
200
,
211
–
12
Dan, Joseph
120
Danby, Rev Herbert
205
David ben Zakkai
77
daybreak, legal definition of
59
De Arcana Catholicae Veritatis
139
Dead Sea Scrolls
60
decalogue
9
demonology
38
destruction of the Temple
17
–
19
,
164
dhimmi
status
97
see also
religious differences, tolerance of
diaspora
34
,
53
,
64
see also
isolation of communities
dictionaries
193
,
209
see also
grammars
dina malchuta dina
ruling
45
disagreement
19
–
20
see also
ambiguity
dogmatism
55
Eden
35
education
as universal ideal
91
see also
yeshiva
Elchanan, son of Shimon of Mainz
98
–
9
Eleazar ben Azariah, Rabbi
23
Elijah the Prophet
48
Ellman, Yaakov
51
Emden, Jacob
170
French and American revolutions
185
see also Haskalah
; Reformed Judaism
Epstein, Isidore
206
David ben Zakkai
77
Mar Zutra
49
exorcism
38
Extractiones de Talmut
115
Ezekiel the Prophet
126
Farabi ibn Kora
90
Ferdinand III, King of Castile
121
Fez
94
Fifth Monarchy Men
167
fingernails
39
folklore, Islamic
60
–
1
see also
legends; superstitions
forced conversion
97
,
100
–
1
,
129
–
33
France
98
,
103
,
113
–
18
see also
Rhineland
French, ancient
102
Friar Ramon
122
Friedman, Shamma
51
Gafni, Isaiah
35
Galatino, Petrus
139