The yearbook aims to fill a gap that has become more and more conspicuous among the wealth of scholarly periodicals in the field ofJewish Studies. Whereas existing journals provide space to medium - and large sized articles, they neglect the small but poignant contributions, which may be as important as the extended, detailed study. The yearbook serves as a platform for small but incisive contributions, and provides them with distinct context. The substance of these contributions is derived from larger perspectives and though not always presented in an exhaustive way, will have an impact on contemporary discussions. The yearbook covers Jewish Culture in its broadest sense, i.e. encompassing various academic disciplines - literature, languages and linguistics, philosophy, art, sociology, politics and history - and reflects binary oppositions such as religious and secular, high and low, written and oral, male and female culture.CONTENTSContents. Bible. A Note on the Root ZN in the Hebrew Bible;A. Brenner. Sacred Spaces in the Book of Daniel; S. Levy. Greek andRoman World. Contextualising Greek Chronicles; S. Pearce. Cleopatra the Physician; J. Geiger. Were the Rabbis Troubled by Witches?L. Mock. Maria Alchemista, the First Female Jewish Author; P.W. van der Horst. A Gold Votive Medallion in the Jewish Museum, London;N. de Lange. PIYYUT. Hearing and Understanding Piyyut in the Liturgy of the Synagogue; W.-J. van Bekkum. Intertextual Polyphony: ScripturalPresence(s) in a Piyyutim Cycle by Yoseph Ibn Abitur;Y. Granat. 'Rashi' and Early Ashkenazi Piyyut; A. van derHeide. Isaac ha-Gorni and the Troubadour Persona; A. Brener. The captions 'fi wazn' and 'fi lahn' in Strophic Poetry; U. Haxen. JewishThought. Religious Polemics in a Philosophical Encyclopedia: Judah ha?Cohen on 'The Chosen People'; R. Fontaine. Athens in Jerusalem. On the Definition of Jewish Philosophy; R. Munk. Booklore. Some Remarks on the Date and Original Price of a Rare Iberian Hebrew Incunable;A.K. Offenberg. On an Unknown Appellation of Jerusalem from theOttoman Period; M. Levy?Rubin, R. Rubin. History. Passion at thePeriphery: The Contexts of a Clandestine Converso Conjunction;M. Goldish. Abraham Hayim ben Zvi Hirsh Braatbard. A Hebrew type-setter in Amsterdam in the first half of the eighteenth century;R.G. Fuks-Mansfeld. Bridging the Gaps -Reflections on the Trial of aCourt Jew and a Modern Concept of Jewish History in Germany;R. Ries. Viewing the Jewish Masses: Easing and Interpreting Entry to the New World; M. Berkowitz. Yiddish. The pronunciation of 'Argentinean Standard Yiddish'; A. Kleine. The Manuscript Versions ofIsaac Euchel's 'Reb Henokh oder vos tut me damit'; R. Gruschka,M. Aptroot. Some Notes on Hebraisms in the Yiddish 'Megalle Temirin';J. Dauber. Haskalah and Hassidim. Hassidim, Mitnaggeddim and the State in M.N. Lefins 'Essai d'un Plan de Reforme'; R. van Luit. Fact orFiction? A Social Sciences Dissertation; D. Meijers. ContemporaryCulture. Paul de Man's 'Wartime Journalism' and the Critics;K. Frieden. Does Germany Follow a 'Special Path'? The Image of GermanHistory in the New Israeli Textbooks (1990-2000);