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Contents
JJS Lectures
Remembering Prewar Warsaw, a Bilingual City
Masahiko NISHI
Hillel Zeitlin and the Renaissance of Jewish Mysticism in Poland
Jonatan MEIR (Translated by Naoki MUKAI)

Articles
Historical Significance of the Book of Ruth Focusing on the Marriage of Boaz the Israelite and
Ruth the Moabite
Makoto SANO
Eine stimmlos widerstehende Stimme
Psalm

Die biblischen Psalmen und Paul Celans Gedicht

Takako NOGUCHI

Translation
Three Jewish Folktales
(Translated by Natsuu MOTAI)
By the Rivers of Babylon (Act 2) by Yitzhak Katzenelson
(Translated by Kazuyuki HOSOMI)

Book Review
Erwin A. SCHMIDL: Habsburgs jdische Soldaten1788 1918
Takahiko SUGINO
Ryo YAMAO: Franz Kafkas Tiergeschichten Das Leben im Kfig, Kiyoko MYOJO: Kafka
unkafkaesk
Aino IKEDA
Tetsuya KOBAYASHI: Die Idee der Reinigung bei Walter Benjamin. Von Anfang bis Karl
Kraus
Yu UWAGAWA

Feature Article
To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Japan Society for Jewish Studies in Kobe
Makoto TOKUNAGA, Chitoshi HINOUE, Akira FUJITA, Kazuyuki HOSOMI, Naoki MUKAI

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Remembering Prewar Warsaw, a Bilingual City

Masahio NISHI
Masahiko Nishi, who translated the works of the Yiddish writers Isaac Leib Peretz and Sholem
Aleichem into Japanese, visited Poland in May/July 2014 for the seventh time since 1980. His
contribution, consisting of excerpts from his travel diary during this trip to Warsaw and d,
illuminates the memories of the Holocaust through the poems of Polish and Jewish poets such
as Czesaw Miosz (1911-2004), Julian Tuwim (1894-1953), Simcha Szajewicz (1908-44) etc.,
who lived in a multilingual and multicultural environment in the Interwar Years.

Hillel Zeitlin and the Renaissance of Jewish Mysticism in Poland

Jonatan MEIR
This paper focuses on an exceptional figure of Hillel Zeitlin (1871 1942), as part of the
renaissance of the Jewish Mysticism in Poland at the beginning of the 20th Century. In detail,
it analyzes the messianic visions of Zeitlin in the context of modern Jewish thought, and
compares his philosophy with those of William James, Nietzsche, Abraham Joshua Heschel,
and Martin Buber.

Historical Significance of the Book of Ruth

Focusing on the Marriage of Boaz the Israelite and Ruth the Moabite
Makoto SANO
According to Max Weber, the prohibition of mixed marriages in ancient Israel was not absolute
before the Babylonian Exile. He expressly underscored an example of the marriage of Boaz the
Israelite and Ruth the Moabite in the Book of Ruth. As is common knowledge, an important
genealogy from Boaz to David resulted from this marriage. That is, Boaz was the father of
Obed, Obed the father of Jesse, and Jesse the father of David (Ruth 4:18-22). Moreover,
according to Matthew 1:1-25, the birth of Jesus Christ is also closely associated with this
marriage. Thus, the Book of Ruth appears to be of great significance not only in Judaism but
also in Christianity.
The historical and religious significance of the Book of Ruth is discussed in this paper with
particular focus on the marriage of Boaz and Ruth, Ruths decisive words in Ruth 1:16-17, and
the Israelite genealogy.

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