Moshe Taube is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Slavic Studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is author of The Logika of the Judaizers: A Fifteenth Century Ruthenian Translation from Hebrew and co-editor of The Slavonic Book of Esther: Text, Lexicon, Linguistic Analysis and Problems of Translation and The Secret of Secrets: The East Slavic Version.

“Scholarly craftmanship and admiration for this fascinating topic adornsmany of the pages of Taube’s book, which sums up a life-long interest in theimpact of the pre-Ashkenazic Jews on the medieval culture of East Slavs”

• CONTENTSAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe: The Beginnings 2. Translations from Hebrew in Rus′ in the Thirteenth throughFifteenth Centuries: Made by Converts? 3. The Heresy of the Judaizers and the Translations from Hebrew in Muscovite Russia in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century Textual Findings and Analyses of the Translations Historical Background of the Translations and Link to the Judaizers General Conclusion Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index

Moshe Taube is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Slavic Studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is author of The Logika of the Judaizers: A Fifteenth Century Ruthenian Translation from Hebrew and co-editor of The Slavonic Book of Esther: Text, Lexicon, Linguistic Analysis and Problems of Translation and The Secret of Secrets: The East Slavic Version.

“Scholarly craftmanship and admiration for this fascinating topic adornsmany of the pages of Taube’s book, which sums up a life-long interest in theimpact of the pre-Ashkenazic Jews on the medieval culture of East Slavs”

• CONTENTSAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe: The Beginnings 2. Translations from Hebrew in Rus′ in the Thirteenth throughFifteenth Centuries: Made by Converts? 3. The Heresy of the Judaizers and the Translations from Hebrew in Muscovite Russia in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century Textual Findings and Analyses of the Translations Historical Background of the Translations and Link to the Judaizers General Conclusion Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index

Moshe Taube is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Slavic Studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is author of The Logika of the Judaizers: A Fifteenth Century Ruthenian Translation from Hebrew and co-editor of The Slavonic Book of Esther: Text, Lexicon, Linguistic Analysis and Problems of Translation and The Secret of Secrets: The East Slavic Version.

“Scholarly craftmanship and admiration for this fascinating topic adornsmany of the pages of Taube’s book, which sums up a life-long interest in theimpact of the pre-Ashkenazic Jews on the medieval culture of East Slavs”

• CONTENTSAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Jewish Presence in Eastern Europe: The Beginnings 2. Translations from Hebrew in Rus′ in the Thirteenth throughFifteenth Centuries: Made by Converts? 3. The Heresy of the Judaizers and the Translations from Hebrew in Muscovite Russia in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century Textual Findings and Analyses of the Translations Historical Background of the Translations and Link to the Judaizers General Conclusion Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index