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***Angaben zur beteiligten Person Engel: David Engel ist Greenberg Professor für Holocaust Studies, Lehrstuhlinhaber der Hebrew and Judaic Studies sowie Professor für Geschichte an der New York University; zudem ist er Senior Fellow am Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center der Universität Tel Aviv.

The subjects of this volume are views and perceptions of the 'other' (i.e. strangers, enemies or curiosities) within the Islamic world, as well as in the interplay between the Islamic and non-Islamic worlds. More than 20 contributions describe conceptions and contingencies of the other from very different perspectives, so arriving - with reference to Islam - at insights into the complex problems of the 'other.' The studies are dedicated to Professor Gernot Rotter. Lawrence Conrad, Universität Hamburg;Ulrich Rebstock und Benjamin Jokisch, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg.

Contains Kat ha-Shovtim o Shomre shabat (Shapiro, I. Ephraim Deinard 19). In addition to this title, the work contains, amongst others, Deinard's correspondence with various native American chieftains, folkstories, book reviews written by Deinard, advertisements, several articles about the Zionist movement by Julius Aronson and "Zion and Jerusalem" by Eisenstein