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Abstract
Louis Lamm was a famed bookseller and publisher of Judaica in Berlin and Amsterdam during the four decades preceding his assassination in 1943. Yet even Internet fails to provide elementary biographical details about his life and work. The aim of this short paper is to partially fill this lacuna and contribute to the perpetuation of the memory of a dedicated lover of Jewish books.

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Gershom ben Solomon's very popular Shaʿar ha-shamayim (The Gate of Heaven), written in the Midi in the last quarter of the 13th century, differs from the two earlier 13th-century Hebrew encyclopedias in that it lays very strong emphasis on the empirical sublunar world (beginning with the elements and especially with the two Aristotelian exhalations), nearly ignoring the theory of the soul and metaphysics. This article argues that the clue to Gershom's distinctive approach to the study of the world is to be found in Samuel ibn Tibbon's Maʾamar yiqqawu ha-mayim (A Treatise on 'Let the Water Gather') of 1231. With this insight, we also realize that Gershom's is an 'encyclopedia' of a new genre, really a personal philosophical work, whose numerous building blocks are arranged in accordance with a philosophical principle. In this respect, the work is that of a true philosopher-scientist, not of a mere compiler.

Preliminary Material /Reimund Leicht and Gad Freudenthal -- A Jewish Scholar in Nineteenth-Century Europe Moritz Steinschneider: /Ismar Schorsch -- "Your Loving Uncle": /Michael L. Miller -- Leopold Zunz and Moritz Steinschneider: /Céline Trautmann-Waller -- Moritz Steinschneider's Notion of Encyclopedias /Arndt Engelhardt -- From Dialektik to Comparative Literature: /Irene E. Zwiep -- Moritz Steinschneider's Concept of the History of Jewish Literature /Reimund Leicht -- Moritz Steinschneider and the Noble Dream of Objectivity /Nils Roemer -- The Aim and Structure of Steinschneider's Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters. The Historiographic Underpinnings of a Masterpiece and Their Untoward Consequences /Gad Freudenthal -- Steinschneider and the Irrational: /Giulio Busi -- Steinschneider's Interstitial Explanation of Magic /Giuseppe Veltri -- The Father of Hebrew Bibliography Moritz Steinschneider and the Discipline of 'Hebrew Manuscripts Study' /Judith Olszowy-Schlanger -- Moritz Steinschneider and the Leiden Manuscripts /Jan Just Witkam -- Creating a New Literary Genre: /Steven Harvey and Resianne Fontaine -- Steinschneider's Manuscripts /Benjamin Richler -- Aron Freimann and the Development of Jewish Bibliography in Germany in the 20th Century /Rachel Heuberger -- A Living Citizen in a World of Dead Letters: /Avriel Bar-Levav -- The Study of Medieval Literature, Philosophy and Science Moritz Steinschneider and Karaite Studies /Daniel J. Lasker -- Moritz Steinschneider's Contribution to Judaeo-Arabic Studies /Paul B. Fenton -- Steinschneider and Yiddish /Diana Matut -- Steinschneider and Italy /Asher Salah -- Mathematik bei den Juden, cent ans après /Tony Lévy -- Steinschneider as Historian /Norman Golb -- Moritz Steinschneider in Contemporary Research The Genesis of Die Hebraeischen Übersetzungen des Mittelalters /Charles H. Manekin -- Genizat Germania. A Projected Comprehensive Electronic Catalogue of Hebrew Fragments Extracted from Bindings of Books or Archival Files in German Libraries and Archives /Elisabeth Hollender and Andreas Lehnardt -- Documents and Texts Tracing Steinschneider in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek /Petra Figeac -- Der Aberglaube [1900] /Moritz Steinschneider -- Index /Reimund Leicht and Gad Freudenthal.