Magic in the Medieval Period

 

 

Table of Contents

 

 

General

 

Books

 

Ban-Ami, Issachar, Tsadike Maroko ve-nifle’otehem (Jerusalem: Hotsa’at Yosef Lugasi, 5755 [1994 or 1995])

 

Etkes, I., Ba`al ha-Shem: ha-Besht, magyah, mistikah, hanhagah (Jerusalem: Merkaz Zalman Shazar, 2000)

 

Gaster, Moses, Ma`aseh Book: Book of Jewish Tales and Legends Translated from the Judeo-German (Philadelphia: JPS, 1934)

 

Grozinger, Karl E. & Dan, Joseph (eds.) Mysticism, Magic, and Kabbalah: International Symposium held in Frankfurt a.M. (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995)

 

Hsai, R. Po-chia, The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988)

 

Idel, Moshe, Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Tradition on the Artificial Anthropoid (Albany, NY: SUNY, 1990)

 

Idel, Moshe, Hasidism: Between Ecstacy and Magic (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1995)

 

Karnarfogel, Ephraim, Peering Through the Lattice: Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic Judaism in the Tosafist Period (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000)

 

Kohen, Zamir, be-`Ikvot ha-dibuk (Jerusalem, Israel: Mekhon 'Or ve-`arakhim', 1999)

 

Loewe, Heinrich, Judischer Feuersegen (Berlin-Schoneberg: 1930)

 

Nigal, Gedalyah, Ba'al shem le-ma'aser `olam: goralo ha-tragi shel ha-Rav Hirsch Frankel (Ramat Gan, Israel: ha-Katedrah le-Hasidut `a. sh. Shnaiderman, Bar-Ilan University Press, 1993)

 

Nigal, Gedalyah, Magia, mistikah, va-hasidut (Tel Aviv, Israel: Y. Golan, 1992)

 

Nigal, Gedalyah, Magic, Mysticism, and Hasidism: the Supernatural in Jewish Thought (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aaronson, 1994)

 

Nigal, Gedalyah, Sippure 'dibuk' be-Sifrut Yisrael (Jerusalem, Israel: Ruben Mass, 1994)

 

Rebinger, Bill, Der Magische Gebrauch der Psalmen in Judentum: Sefer Shimmush Tehillim (Dissertation, Berlin, 1998)

           

Ruderman, David B., Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: the Cultural Universe of a 16th Century Jewish Physician (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988)

 

Schwartz, Dov, Astrologyah u-magyah ba-hagul ha-yehudit be-yeme ha-benayim (Ramat Gan, Israel: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1999) [HEB]

 

Sefer Raziel ha-Malakh (Amsterdam, 1701)

 

Shir, Roni, Magyah u-mistikah ba-Yahadut: kabalah, kishif, yekholot `al-tiv`iyot (Jerusalem: Keter, 1997)

 

Trachtenberg, Joshua, Jewish Magic and Superstition (New York: Atheneum, 1974)

 

Trachtenberg, Joshua, The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Anti-Semitism (Philadelphia: JPS, 1983)

 

Vinrot, Avraham ben Mosheh Aharon Spiritu'alizm ve-Yahadut  (Tel Aviv, Israel: Matkal/Ketsin hinukh rashi/Gale Tsahal, Misrad ha-Bitahon, 1996)

 

Wandrey, Irina, Judische Magie im Mittelalter: Sefer ha-Malbush (Freie wissenschaftliche Arbeit zur Erlangung des Grades eines Magister Artium; Freie Universitat: Berlin)

 

Werblowsky, R.J. Zwi, Magie, Mystik, Messianismus: vergleichende Studien zur Religionsgeschichte des Judentums und des Cristentums (Hildsheim—NY: Olms, 1987)

 

Yassif, Eli, The Tales of Ben Sira in the Middle-Ages: A Critical Text and Literary-Folkloristic Studies (The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University: Jerusalem, 1984).

 

Zimmels, H.J. Magicians, Theologians, and Doctors: Studies in Folk Medicane as   Reflected in the Rabbinical Responsa 12th-19th Centuries (London: E. Goldston, 1952) [reprint Northvale, NJ: J. Aaronson Inc., 1997]

 

 

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Anderson, Wayne, “Os Vulvae in Proverbs and the Malleus Maleficarum,” History of European Ideas 14 (1992), pp. 715-722

 

Ansani, Antonella, “Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola’s Language of Magic,” in L’Hebrew au temps de la Renaissance (1997), pp. 89-104

 

Barkai, R., “L’us dels salms en la magia jueva de l’edat mitjana I el renaixement: el libre Shimush Tehillim,” in R. Barkai (ed.), La Cabala (Barcelona: 1989), pp. 26-31

 

Barkai, R., L’Astrologie Juive Medieval: Aspects Theoretiques et Practiques,” Moyen Age 93 (1987), 323-348

 

Barkai, Ron, “Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Jewish Astrology in the Middle Ages,” in R. Barkai, Science, Magic, and Mythology in the Middle Ages (Jerusalem: 1987), pp. 7-35 [Heb]

 

Benayahu, Meir, “Sefer Shoshan Yesod ha-Olam of R. Yosef Tirshom,” Temirin 1 (1972), 187-218

 

Bonfil, R., “The Devil and the Jews in the Christian Consciousness of the Middle Ages in S. Almog (ed.) Anti-Semitism through the Ages (Jerusalem: 1988), pp. 91-98

 

Chajes, J.H., “Jewish Magic and Divination,” in P.F. Grendler (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Rennaissance (NY: Charles Scriber’s Sons, 1998), vol. 4, pp. 22-24

 

Dan, Joseph, “Raziel, Book of,” Ecyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), vol. 13, pp. 1592-1593

 

Dan, J., “Sippurim Demonologiyyim me-kitve R. Yehuda Hasid,” Tarbiz 30 (1961), pp. 288ff.

 

Esteban, Fernando Diaz, “A Charm for a Traveller,” in Ulf Haxen, Hanne Trautner Kromann, & Karen Lisa Goldschmidt Salamon (eds.), Jewish Studies in a New Europe: Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress of Jewish Studies in Copenhagen 1994 (Copenhagen: C.A. Reitzel, 1998), pp. 184-198

 

Foa, Anna, "The Witch and the Jew: Two Alikes That Were Not the Same," in Jeremy  Cohen (ed.) From Witness to Witchcraft: Jews and Judaism in Medieval Christian     Thought (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag, 1996), pp. 361-374

 

Fontaine, Carole R., "Many Devices (Qoheleth 7:23-8:1): Qoheleth , Misogyny and the 'Melleus Meleficarum," in in Athalya Brenner and Carole R. Fontain (eds.) Wisdom and Psalms (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 137-167

 

Freudenthal, G., “Epistemologie, Astronomie et Astrologie chez Gersonide,” REJ 145 (1986), 375-365

 

Goldstein, B.R., “Levi ben Gerson’s Astrology in Historical Perspective,” in Dahan, Gilbert (ed.), Gersonides en son Temps: Science et Philosophie   Medievales (Louvain: Peeters, 1991), pp. 287-300

 

Grozinger, Karl E., "Between Magic and Religion: Ashkenazi Hasidic Piety," in Karl E. Grozinger and Joseph Dan (eds.) Mysticism, Magic, and Kabbalah (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995), pp. 28-43

 

Hames, Harvey J., “Jewish Magic with a Christian Text: A Hebrew Translation of Ramon Llull’s Ars Brevis,” Traditio 54 (1999), 283-300

 

Hsia, Ronnie Po-Chia, "Blut, Magie und Judenhass im deutschland der fruhen Neuzeit," in Monlka Hagenmaier and Sabine Holtz, (eds.) Krisenbewewusstsein uund krissenbewaltigung in der fruhen neuzeit (Frankfurt A.M.: Peter Lang, 1992), pp. 353-369

 

Hsia, Ronnie Po-Chia, "Witchcraft, Magic, and the Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany," in Jeremy Cohen (ed.) From Witness to Witchcraft: Jews and Judaism in Medieval Christian Thought (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag, 1996), pp. 419-433

 

Hsis, Ronnie Po-Chia, "Jews as Magicians in Reformation Germany," in Sander L. Gilman and Steven T. Katz (eds.), Anti-Semitism in Times of Crisis (NY: New York University Press, 1991), pp. 151-139

 

Idel, M., “The Magical and Theurgical Interpretation of Music in Jewish Texts:   Renaissance to Hasidism,” Yuval 4 (1982), 33-63 [Heb]

 

Idel, M., “The Study Program of Yohanan Alemanno,” Tarbiz 48 (1979), pp. 303-330

 

Idel, Moshe, "Jewish Magic from the Renaissance Period to Early Hasidism," in Jacob Neusner, Ernest S. Frerichs, & Paul Virgil McCracken Flescher (eds.), Religion, Science, and Magic: In Concert and in Conflict (NY, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp. 82-117

 

Kieckhefer, Richard, "The Devil's Comptemplations; the Liber Iuratus, the Liber Visionum and the Christian Appropriation of Jewish Occultism," in Fanger, Claire (ed.), Conjuring Spirits, Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988), pp. 250-265

 

Kilcher, Andreas B., "Das Magische Gesetz der Hebraischen Sprache: Drostes "Judenbuche" und der spratromantische Diskurs uder die judische Magie," Zeitschrift fur Deutsche Philologie 118:2 (1999), 234-265

 

Konneker, Barbara, ""Zauberei und Zauberer in der deutschen literatur des 16.  Jahrhundertsm," in Karl E.Grozinger and Joseph Dan (eds.) Mysticism, Magic, and Kabbalah (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1995), pp. 231-237

 

Kreisel, H., “Vertical Dreams and Prophecy in the Philosophy of Gersonides,” Da’at 22 (1989), 73-84

 

Lacarenza, Giancarlo, "Magia giudaica nella sicilia tardoantica," in Benedetto Rocco (ed.) li ebreo in Sicilia (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1998), pp. 293-310

 

Langermann, Y. Tzvi, “Jewish Astrology and Occulty,” in P.F. Grendler (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Rennaissance (NY: Charles Scriber’s Sons, 1998), vol. 4, pp. 21-22

 

Lasker, Daniel J., “Gersonides on Dreams, Divination, and Astrology,” Proceedings of the Eighth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division C (Jerusalem: 1982), pp. 47-52

 

Levene, A., “A Pharmaceutical Fragment of the 10th Century in Hebrew by Shabbethai Donnolo,” PRSM 21 (1927-1928), 1397-1399

Liss, Hanna, "Offenbarung und Weitergabe des gottlichen Namenns und die Reception Priesterlicher Traditionen im Sefer ha-Shem des R. Elazar ben Yehuda von Worms," Frankfurter Judaistische Beitrage 26 (1999), 25-50

 

Loewe, Raphael, "A Medieval Latin-German Magical text in Hebrew Characters," in Ada Rappaport-Albert and Steven J. Zipperstein (eds.), Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Chaim Abramsky (London: P. Halban, 1988), pp. 345-368

 

Marcus, S., “Magical Elements in the Hebrew Medical Manuscript ‘Book of Experiences’ Attributed to A. Ibn Ezra,” Koroth 4 (1967), 254-282

 

Marx, Alexander, “Astrology Among the Jews in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century,” in A. Marx, Studies in Jewish History and Booklore (NY: 1944), pp. 48-64

 

Meyuha, Ginio Alisa, "The Conversos and the Magic Arts in Alonso de Espina's 'Foctilitium Fidei'" Mediterranean Historical Journal 5:2 (1990), 169-182

 

Nemoy, L., “Al-Qirqasani on the Occult Sciences,” JQR 76 (1986), 329-367

 

Noonan, Brian B., "Wisdom Literature among the Witchmongers," in Athalya Brenner and Carole R. Fontain (eds.)  Wisdom and Psalms (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 169-174

 

Oegema, Gerbern S., "Das Davidsschild als magisches zoichen von der antike gis zum mittelter," Aschkenas 4:1 (1994), 13-32

 

Rebinger, Bill, "Bildung Magischer Namen im Sefer Shimmush Tehilim," Frankfurter Judaistische Beitrage 26 (1999), 7-24

 

Robinson, I., "Jacob al-Kirkisani on the Reality of Magic and the Nature of the  Miraculous: a Study in Tenth-century Karaite Rationalism," in Howard Joseph, Jack N. Lightstone, & Michael D. Oppenheim (eds.), Truth and Compassion: Essays on Judaism and Religion in Memory of R. Dr. Solomon Frank (Waterloo, Canada: Wilfried Laurier University Press, 1983), pp. 41-53

 

Rosenthal, Erwin, “Yohanan Alemanno and Occult Science,” in Y. Maeyama & W.G. Saltzer (eds.), Prismata, Naturwissenschaftgeschichtliche Studien, Festschrift fuer Willy Hartner (Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1977), pp. 349-361

 

Scholem, G., “Sidra de-Shimushe Rabba,” Tarbiz 16 (1945), 196-209

 

Scholem, G., "Somes Sources of Jewish-Arabic Demonology," JJS 16  (1965), 1-13

 

Schwartz, Dov, "La Magie astrale dans la pensee juive en pronence au XIV siecle," Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Litteraire du Moyen Age 61 (1994), 31-34

 

Schwartz, Dov, “Astrology and Astral Magic in R. Solomon Al-Qonstantin’s Misaleh `Amuqot,” Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Folklore 15 (1992), 37-82

 

Schwartz, Dov, “Different Forms of Magic in Spanish Jewish Thought of the Fourteenth Century,” PAAJR 57 (1992), 17-47 [Heb]

 

Schwartz, Dov, “From Theurgy to Magic: The Evolution of the Magic Talismanic Justification of Sacrifice in the Circle of Nahmanidies and his Interpreters,” Aleph 1 (2001), 165-213

 

Schwartz, Dov, “The Dispute over Astral Magic in Fourteenth Century Provence,” Zion 58 (1992), 141-174 [Heb]

 

Shatzmiller, Joseph, “In Search of the ‘Book of Remedies’: Medicine and Astrology in Montpellier at the Turn of the Fourteenth Century,” AJS Review 7-8 (1982-1983),  pp. 383-407

 

Stern, Josef, “The Fall and Rise of Myth in Ritual: Maimonides versus Nahmanides on the Huqqim, Astrology, and the War Against Idolatry,” JJTP 6 (1997), 185-263

 

Swartz, Michael, “Magical Piety in Ancient and Medieval Judaism,” in Marvin Meyer and Paul Mirecki (eds.) Ancient Magic and Ritual Power (Leiden: EJ Brill, 1995),  pp. 167-183

 

Ta-Shema, Y.M., “Sifriyatam shel Hakhme Ashkenaz be-me-ah ha-y’-yb’,” Kiryat Sepher 60 (1985), 298-309

 

Verman, M. & Adler, S.H., “Path Jumping in Jewish Magical Tradition,” JSQ 1 (1993-1994), 131-148

 

Weiss, J.G., "The Great Maggid's Theory on Contemplative Magic," HUCA 31 (1960), 137-147

 

Wolfson, Elliot R., “ "Phantasmagoria: The Image of the Image in Jewish Magic from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages,” Review of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient, Medieval, Modern 4 (2001), 78-120

 

Yassif, Eli, "Tales of Magic and Demonology in the Middle Ages," in Eli Yassif, The Hebrew Folktale: History, Genre, Meaning (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999), pp. 351-370.

 

Magic and the Cairo Genizah

 

Books

 

Isaacs, Haskell D., Medical and Para-Medical Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections (Cambridge: 1994)

 

Margalioth, M., (ed.) Sefer ha-Razim [The Book of the Mysteries] (Jerusalem: 1966)

 

Morgan, Michael, (trans. & ed.) Sefer ha-Razim: The Book of the Mysteries (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1983) [SBL, Texts and Translations 25: Pseudepigrapha Series  11]

 

Schaefer, Peter and Shaked, Shaul, Texte aus der Kairoer Geniza (Tuebingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1994-1999) [3 Vols.]

 

Schiffman, L.H. and Swartz, M.D., Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Geniza (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992)

 

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Bohak, Gideon, "Greek, Coptic, and Jewish Magic in the Cairo Geniza," in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 36 (1999), 27-44

 

Geller, Markham and Levene, D., "Magical Texts from the Genizah (with a new duplicate)" JJS 49 (1998), 334-340

 

Seidel, J., “Of Amulets, Mystery, and Magic,” Genizah Fragments 17 (1989), 3

 

Shaked, Shaul, "An Early Magic Fragment from the Cairo Genizah [T.S.K. 1.70; T.S.K. 1.73]" in R. Dan (ed.) Occident and Orient (Leiden: Brill, 1988) pp. 361-371

 

Shaked, Shaul, "Magic Moments," Genizah Fragments 8 (1984), 2; 9 (1985), 3.

 

Swartz, Michael D., "Scribal Magic and its Rhetoric: Formal Patterns in Hebrew and Aramaic Incantations from the Cairo Genizah," HTR 83 (1990), 163-180

 

Veltri, Giuseppe, "Zur uberlieferung medizinisch-magisches traditionen: das 'mitra motiv' in de 'papyri magicae' und de Kairoer Geniza," Henoch 18:1-2 (1996), 157-175

 

Wasserstrom, S.M., “The Magical Texts in the Cairo Geniza,” in J. Blau & S.C. Reif (eds.), Geniza Research After Ninety Years (Cambridge: 1992), pp. 160-166

 

Magic and Kabbala

 

Books

 

Bischoff, Erich, Die Elemente der Kabbalah, II, Praktische Kabbalah, Magische Wissenschaft, Magishe Kunste (Berlin, 1914)

 

Cohen-Alloro, Dorit, ha-Magyah veha-kishuf be-sefer ha-Zohar (Jerusalem: Ph.D. Dissertation, Hebrew University, 1989)

 

Denning, Melita, Phillips, Osborne, & Minelli, Giovanni, Introduction a la Kabbale Magique (Paris: Sand, 1994)

 

Dornseiff, Franz, Das Alphabet in Mystik und Magie (Leipzig-Berlin: 1925)

 

Gonzalez-Wippler, Migene & Scheible, Johann, The New Revised Sixth and Seventh  Books of Moses: and the Magical uses of the Psalms (Plainview, NY: Original Publications, 1991)

 

Lustig, D., Pela'ot hakhme ha-kabbala: vehe-`avar ha-kadum (Tel Aviv: Hotsa'at David ben Ze'ev, 1987)

 

Scholem, Gershom, Kabbalah (NY: Meridian, 1978), “Chiromancy, pp. 317-319,” “Demonology in Kabbalah, pp. 320-326,” “Golem, pp. 351-355,” “Lilith, pp. 352-355,” “Samuel, pp. 385-388”

 

Sharf, Andrew, The Universe of Shabbetai Donnolo (New York, NY: Ktav Pub. House, 1976)

 

Shir, Roni, Magyah u-mistikah ba-Yahadut: kabalah, kishif, yekholot `al-tiv`iyot (Jerusalem: Keter, 1997)

 

Vital, Hayyim ben Yoseph, Goral kodesh ha-shalem: ve-hem 256 she-elot u-meyusad al 12 mazalot [edited by Meir ben Yitshak Bakal] (Jerusalem: 1964/5)

 

Zafrani, Haim, Kabbale, vie mystique et magie: judaisme d’Occident musulman (Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 1986)

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Ackerman, Ari, “A Magical Fragment of David Ibu Bilia’s ‘Me’or Enayim’,” Kabbalah 1 (1996), 13-18

 

Bos, Gerrit, "Moshe Mizrachi on Popular Science in 17th Century Syria-Palestine," JSQ 3:3 (1996), 250-279

 

Dan, J., “Samuel, Lilith, and the Concept of Evil in Early Kabbalah,” AJS Review 5 (1980), 17-40

 

Foa, Anna, "L'immagine dell'ebreo tra magica e superstizione (xvii-xviii secolo)," in Paolo Alatri e Silvia Grassi (eds.) La questione ebraica dall'lluminismo all'impro (1700-1815) (Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1994), pp. 3-13

 

Goldmerstein, L., “Magical Sacrifice in the Jewish Kabbala”, Folklore 7 (1896), 202    204

 

Idel, Moshe., “Inquiries in the Doctrine of Sefer ha-Meshiv Sefunot,” Sefunot 17 (1983),  185-266 [Heb]

 

Idel, Moshe, "Magic and Kabbalah in the 'Book of the Responding Entity'," in Mayer I. Graber (ed.) The Solomon Goldman Lectures VI (Chicago: Spertus College of Judaism Press, 1993), pp. 125-138

 

Idel, Moshe, "On Judaism, Jewish Mysticism, and Magic," in  Peter Schafer & Hans G. Kippengerg (eds.), Envisioning Magic: A Princeton Seminar and Symposium (Leiden--NY--Koeln: E.J. Brill, 1997), pp. 195-214

 

Idel, Moshe, "On Talismanic Language in Jewish Mysticism," Diogenes 170 (1995),  23-41

 

Idel, Moshe, "The Golem in Jewish Magic and Mysticism," in Emily D. Bilski (ed.) Golem! Danger, Deliverance, and Art (New York, NY: Jewish Museum, 1985),  pp. 15-35

 

Idel, Moshe, "The Magical and Neoplatonic Interpretations of the Kabbalah in the Renaissance," in Bernard Dov Cooperman (ed.) Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century (Canbridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983), pp. 186-242

 

Idel, Moshe, “Judaism, Jewish Mysticism, and Magic,” Jewish Studies 36 (1996), 25   40 [Heb]

 

Kiener, R.C., “The Status of Astrology in the Early Kabbalah: From the Sefer Yesirah to the Zohar,” in J. Dan (ed.), The Beginnings of Jewish Mysticism in Medieval Europe: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the History of Jewish Mysticism (Jerusalem: 1987), pp. 1-42

 

Levi, Israel, “Le Juif Sorcier,” REJ 22 (1891), 232ff.

 

Monod, Bernard, “Juifs, Sorciers et Heretiques au Moyen Age,” REJ 46 (1903), 237ff.

 

Patai, Raphael, “Exorcism and Xenoglassia Among the Safed Kabbalists,” in R. Patai, On Jewish Folklore (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1983)

 

Yuval, Israel Jacob, "Magie und Kabbala unter den Juden im Deutschland des ausgehenden mittelalters," in Karl E. Grozinger (ed.) Judentum im deutschen sprachmaum (Frankfurt A.M.: Suhrkamp, 1991), pp. 173-189

 

Golem

 

Books

 

Bilski, Emily D. (ed.),    Golem! Danger, Deliverance, and Art (New York, NY: Jewish Museum, 1985)

 

Bloch, Chayim, The Golem: Legends of the Ghetto of Prague (Vienna, 1925)

 

Goldsmith, Arnold L., The Golem Remembered, 1909-1980: Variations of a Jewish Legend (Detroit: 1981)

 

Idel, Moshe, Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Tradition on the Artificial Anthropoid (Albany, NY: SUNY, 1990)

 

Mayer, Sigrid, Golem: Die Lietrarische Rezeption eines Stoffes (Bern and Frankfurt a.M: 1975)

 

Rosenfeld, Beate, Die Golemsage und ihre Verwertung in der deutschen Literatur (Breslau: 1934)

 

Sherwin, Byron L., The Legend of the Golem: Origins and Implications (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1985)

 

Yassif, Eli, and R. Yehuda Yudle Rosenberg, The Golem of Prague and Other Tales of Wonder (Jerusalem: Mosad Bialik, 1991).

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

“Golem,” in Encyclopaedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), vol. 7, pp. 753-756

 

Aaron, David H., "Imagery of the Divine and the Human: on the Mythology of Genesis   Rabba 8:1," JJTP 5:1 (1995), 1-62

 

Allison, Alida, “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: The Golem as a Family Member in Jewish Children’s Literature,” The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children’s Literature 14:2 (1990), 92-97

 

Amsellem, Daniela, "Ebraismo, scienza e creazione letteraria: Primo Levi e I miti ebraici di lilit e del Golem," in Marisa Carla & Luca De Angelis (eds.), L'ebraismo nella letteratura italiana del Novecento (Palermo: Palumbro, 1995), pp. 123-151

 

Bilski, E., & Idel, M., “The Golem: An Historical Overview,” in Emily D. Bilski (ed.) Golem! Danger, Deliverance, and Art (New York, NY: Jewish Museum, 1985),  pp. 10-14

 

Bilski, Emily D., "The Art of the Golem," in Emily D. Bilski (ed.) Golem! Danger, Deliverance, and Art (New York, NY: Jewish Museum, 1985), pp. 44-110

 

Broslsma-Stancu, Simona, "Der Prager Golem: ein Polyganger," in Albrecht Schone (ed.), Kontroverson, alte und nue: Akten des VII Internationalen Germanisten Kongresses, Gottingen 1985 (Tubingen, Niemeyer, 1986), pp. 187-195

 

Chaloupka, David, "Hugo Steiner-Prag und die Buhnenausstattung zur Oper 'Golem' von Eugen d'Albert," Judaica Bohemiae 33 (1998), 87-96

 

Comrada, Norma, “Golem and Robot: A Search for Connections,” Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 7:2-3 (1996), 244-254

 

Davidson, Jane, “Golem-Frankenstein-Golem of Your Own,” Journal of theFantastic in the Arts 7:2-3 (1996), 228-243

 

De Lange, Nicholos Robert Michael, "Hebrew/Greek Manuscripts: Some Notes," JJS 46 (1995), 262-270

 

Goodman-Thau, Eveline, "Golem, Adam oder Antichrist: Kabbalistische Hintergrunde der Golemlegende in der Judischen und Deutschen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts," in Eveline Goodman-Thau, Gert Mattenklott, & Christoph Schulte (eds.), Kabbala und die Literatur der Romantik zwischen Magie und Trope (Tubingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1999), pp. 81-134

 

Goska, Danusha V., "Golem as Gentil, Golem as Sabra: an Analysis of the Manipulation of Stereotypes of Self and Other in Literary Treatments of a Legendary Jewish Figure," New York Folklore 23:1-4 (1997), 39-64

 

Hilu, Nathan, “The Golem of Chelm,” Jews 2 (1999), pp. 16ff.

 

Idel, Moshe, “An Astral-magical Pneumatic Anthropoid,” Incognito 2 (1991), 9-31

 

Idel, Moshe, "The Golem in Jewish Magic and Mysticism," in Emily D. Bilski (ed.) Golem! Danger, Deliverance, and Art (New York, NY: Jewish Museum, 1985),  pp. 15-35

 

Karst, Roman, "Gustav Meyrinks Traumwelt," Franz Kafka-Gesellschaft: Schriftenreihe 3 (1989), pp. 69-80

 

Kevenson-Hertz, B., “The Golem of Prague,” Jewish Spectator 46 (1981), n. 1

 

Kieval, Hillel Joseph, "Pursuing the Golem of Prague: Jewish Culture and the Invention of a Tradition," Modern Judaism 17:1 (1997), 1-23

 

Koven, Mikal J., "'Have I got a Monster for you!' Some thoughts on the Golem, 'the X  Files' and the Jewish Horror Movie," Folklore 111:2 (2000), 217-230

 

Ledig, Elfi, "Making Movie Myths: Paul Wegener's 'The Golem'," in Emily D. Bilski (ed.) Golem! Danger, Deliverance, and Art (New York, NY: Jewish Museum, 1985), pp. 36-43

 

Levy, Shimon, "The Performance of Creation: Creation in Performance," in Gerard P. Luttikhuizen (ed.), The Creation of Man and Women: Interpretations of the Biblical Narratives in Jewish and Christian Traditions (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2000), pp. 187-205

 

Lipton, Diana, “Skin and Bone, Spirit and Self: Interpreting Ezekiel’s Vision,” European Judaism 32:1 (1999), 63-69

 

Maier, Johann, "Magisch-theurgische uberlieferungen im mittelalterlichen: beobachtungen zu 'terafim' und 'golem'" in Helmut Birkhan (ed.) Die Juden in  ihrer mitterlalterlichen Umwielt (Bern: Peter Lang, 1992), pp. 249-287

 

Mayer, S. “Der Golem-Stoff in den Vereinigten Staaten,” in Elemente der Literatur Elisabeth Frenzel Festschrift (Stuttgart: 1981), pp. 155-174

 

Necker, Gerold, "Warnung vor der Schopfermacht: die Reflexion der Golem-Tradition in der Vorrede des Psuedo-Saadya-Kommentars zum Sefer Yesira," Frankfurter Judaistische Beitrage 21 (1994), 31-67

 

Ozick, Cynthia, “The Puttermesser Papars,” Haddasah 79:3 (1997), 14-15

 

Reffet, Michel, "Der Golem-Mythos in Franz Werfels Werk," Franz Kafka-Gesellschaft: Schriftenreihe3 (1989), 136-152

 

Schafer, Peter, "The Magic of the Golem: the Early Development of the Golem Legend," JJS 46 (1995), 249-261

 

Scheiber, Alexander, “Die Golem-Sage in der ungarischen Literatur,” in A. Scheiber, Essays on Jewish Folklore and Comparative Literature (Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1985), pp. 156-160

 

Scholem, Gershom, “Der Golem von Prag und der Golem von Rehevot,” Judaica 2 (1970), 77-86

 

Scholem, Gershom, “The Golem of Prague and the Golem of Rehovot,” in G. Scholem, The Messianic Idea in Judaism (NY: Schocken, 1971), pp. 335-340

 

Scholem, Gershom, “The Idea of the Golem,” in G. Scholem, On the Kabbalah and it Sybolism (NY: Schocken, 1969), pp. 158-204

 

Scholem, Gershom, “The Image of the Golem in its Tellurian and Magical Context,” in G. Scholem, Elements of the Kabbalah and it Symbolism (Jerusalem: 1976), pp. 381-424 [Heb]

 

Sherwin, Byron L., "The Golem, Zevi Ashkenazi, and Reproductive Biotechnology," Judaism 44:3 (1995), 314-322

 

Soud, Stephen E., "Borges the Golem-maker: Intimations of 'presence' in the 'Circular Ruins'," Modern Language Notes 110:4 (1995), 739-754

 

Varelo Moreno, Maria Encarnacion, "La Leyenda del 'golem' origenes y modernas derivaciones," MEAH 44 (1995), 61-79 [Hebrew section]

 

Volkov, Anatolij, "Transformation des traditionellen Themas der Erschaffun eines kunstlichen Menschen in der osterreichen und ukrainischen Literatur (Golem Sage)," in Wolfgang Kraus & Dmytro Zatons'kyj (eds.), Von Taras Sevcenko bis Joseph Roth (Bern: Peter Lang, 1995), pp. 93-104

 

Yassif, Eli, "From Ancient to Modern Jewish Mythologies," in Glenda Abramson (ed.) Modern Jewish Mythologies (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 2000), pp.149-160

 

Maimonides

 

Freudenthal, Gad, “Maimonides’ Stance on Astrology in Context: Cosmology, Physics, Medicine, and Providence,” in Fred Rosner & Samuel Kotteck (ed.), Moses  Maimonides: Physician, Scientist, and Philosopher (Northvale, NJ: Aronson, 1993), pp. 77-90

 

Kreisel, Howard, “Maimonides’ Approach to Astrology,” in Proceedings of the Eleventh World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division C, Vol II (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1994), pp. 25-31 [Heb]

 

Langermann, Y. Tzvi, “Maimonides’ Repudiation of Astrology,” Maimonidean Studies 2 (1991), 123-158

 

Langermann, Y. Tzvi, "Maimonides and Astronomy: Some Further Reflections," in Y. Tzvi Langermann (ed.) The Jews and Science in the Middles Ages (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1999), ch. 4.

 

Langermann, Y. Tzvi, "Maimonides Repudiation of Astrology," in Robert S. Cohen, &   Hillel Levine (eds.), Maimonides and the Sciences (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Press, 2000), pp. 131-157)

 

Lerner, R., “Maimonides’ Letter on Astrology,” History of Religions 8 (1968), 143-158

 

Lewis, H.S., “Maimonides on Superstition,” JQR 17 (1905), 401-410

 

Moses Maimonides, “Letter on Astrology,” in R. Lerner & Muhsin Mahdi (eds.), Medieval Political Philosophy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1963), pp. 227-236

 

Muntner, Z., “The Rambam as Astronomer,” Mahanaim 126 (1971), 164-167 [Heb]

 

Nemoy, L., “Maimonides Opposition to Occultism,” Ha-Rofe ha-Ivri 2 (1954), 102-109 [Heb]

 

Safran, B., “Maimonides Attitude to Magic and to Related Types of Thinking,” in B. Safran and E. Safran (ed.), Porat Yosef: Studies Presented to Rabbi Dr. Joseph Safran (Hoboken, NJ: Ktav, 1992), pp. 92-110

 

Stern, Josef, “The Fall and Rise of Myth in Ritual: Maimonides versus Nahmanides on the Huqqim, Astrology, and the War Against Idolatry,” JJTP 6 (1997), 185-263

 

Alchemy

 

Books

 

Patai, Raphael, The Jewish Alchemist: A History and Source Book (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991)

 

Scholem, Gershom, Alchemie und Kabbala (Frankfurt a-main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1984)

 

Schwarz, Arturo, Kabbalah and Alchemy (Northvale, NJ: Aronson, 2000)

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Bos, Gerit, "Hayyim Vital's 'Practical Kabalah and Alchemy' a 17th Century Book of Secrets," JJTP 4:1 (1994), 55-112

 

Eisler, R., “Zur Terminologe der Judischen Alchemie,” Monatsschrift fuer Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentams 69 (1925) [Breslau]

 

Idel, Moshe,  “The Origin of Alchemy According to Zosimos and a Hebrew Parallel,” REJ 145 (1986), 117-124

           

Patai, Raphael, “Esh M’tzaref—A Kabbalistic-Alchemical Treatise,” in R. Dan (ed.), Occident and Orient (Leiden: Brill, 1988), pp. 299-313

 

Patai, Raphael, “Maria the Jewess: Founding Mother of Alchemy,” Ambix 29:3 (1982), 177-197

 

Scholem, Gershom, “Alchemi und Kabbala: Ein Kapitel aus der Geschichte der Mystik,” Monatsschrift fuer Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentams 69 (1925), 13-30, 95-110, 371-374; 70 (1926), 202-209

 

Steinschneider, Moritz, “Alchimie,” MGWJ 38 (1894)

 

Suler, Bernard, “Alchemy,” Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1973), Vol. 2,    pp. 542-549

 

Sefer Hasidim

 

Borchers, Susanna, "Hexem in 'Sefer Hasidim'," Henoch 16:2-3 (1994), 271-293

 

“Sefer Hasidim,” Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971), vol. 7, pp. 1388-1390

 

Sefer Hasidim (Lemberg, 1863, 1867) [Bologna version]

 

Sefer Hasidim: mevo’ar menukad u-mefusak (Yerushalayim: Mekhon rishonim, 1993)

 

Sefer Hasidim—Das Buch der Frommen (nach der Rezension in Cod. Rossi, No. 1133), ed. J Wistinetzki, 2nd ed., with Introduction by J. Freimann (Frankfort, 1924)

Singer, Sholom A. (trans. & ed.), Sefer Hasidim (Northbrook, Ill.: Whitehall Co., 1971)

 

 

The Key of Solomon

 

Books

 

Alhazred, Abdul, Das Necromomicon (Berlin: Verlag Richard Schikowski, 1980)

 

Clavicus Salomonis (The Key of Solomon) [Translated and edited from manuscripts in the British Museum by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers] (York Beach, Maine:  Samuel Weiser, Inc., 2000) [originally published: London: G. Redway, 1889]

 

Gollancz, Hermann, Sepher Mapteach Shelomo (Book of the Key of Solomon): An Exact Facsimile of an Original Book of Magic in Hebrew (Oxford: 1914)

 

Articles in Periodicals and Chapters in Books

 

Rohrbacher-Sticker, C., “A Hebrew Manuscript of Clavicula Salomonis: Part II,” British Library Journal 21 (1995), 128-136

 

Rohrbacher-Sticker, C., “Mafteah Shelomo: A New Acquisition of the British Library,” JSQ 21 (1993-4), 263-270

 

Islam

 

Bos, Gerrit, and Charles Burnett, "'Al-Kindi, Kitab fi`ilm al-katif (The Book on the Knowledge of the Shoulderblade)," in Gerrit Bos, Charles Burnett, Therese Charmasson, Paul Kunitsch, Fabrizio Lelli, Paolo Lucentini, eds.,Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis CXLIV C (Hermes Latinus IV, 4: Hermes Trismegisti; Astrologia et Divinatoria. Cura et Studio: Turnhout 2001), pp. 285-347.

 

Bosworth, C.E., "Jewish Elements in the Banu Sasan," BO 33 (1976), 1-17 [=Medieval Arabic Culture and Administration (London, 1982), VI]

 

Friendlander, Israel, “A Muhammaden Book on Augury in Hebrew Character,” JQR os 19 (1907), 84-103

 

Gold, N., “The Esoteric Practices of the Jews of Fatimid Egypt,” American Philosophical Society Yearbook (1965), 535-555

 

Goldziher, Ignaz, “Hebraische Elemente in muhammedanischen Zauberspruchen,” ZDMG 48 (1894), 350-360

 

Lecker, Michael, "The Bewitching of the Prophet Muhammed by the Jews: A Not Apropos `abd al-Malik b. Habib 'Mukhtasar fi l-tibb," Al-Qantara 13 (1992), 561-569 [=Michal Lecker (ed.), Jews and Arabs in Pre and Early Islamic Arabia (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998)]

 

Patai, R., “The Love Factor in a Hebrew-Arabic Conjuration,” JQR 70 (1980), 239-253

 

Shaked, Shaul, “Medieval Jewish Magic in Relation to Islam: Theoretical Attitudes and Genres,” in Benjamin H. Hary, John L. Hayes, & Fred Asten (eds.), Judaism and Islam: Boundaries, Communication, and Interaction: Essays in Honor of William M. Brinner (Leiden: Brill, 2000), pp. 97-109

 

Shaked, Shaul, “On Jewish Magical Literature in Muslim Countries—Notes and Examples,” Pe’amim 15 (1983), 15-26

 

Vajda, G., “Sur Quelqes elements Juifs et pseudo-Juifs dans l’encyclopedie de Buni,” in S. Lowinger & J. de Somogyi (eds.), Ignaz Goldziher Memorial Volume (Budapest, 1948), pp. 387-392

 

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