Jeremy Schonfield, Text, Time and Territory: Rereading Jewish Culture, published in Romanian
We are very pleased to share with you LBC faculty member Dr Jeremy Schonfield’s new book:
Jeremy Schonfield, Text, Time and Territory: Rereading Jewish Culture, published in Romanian
A book by Dr Jeremy Schonfield, Liturgy lecturer at the College since 1995 and Reader since 2014, is to be published in Romania in May 2019. It is the first academic introduction to Judaism to appear in Romanian and is addressed to people familiar with the social sciences.
It is the result of a long gestation. Jeremy delivered three groups of lectures in English at the University of Iaşi (pronounced ‘Yash’) and at New Europe College, Bucharest, between 1993 and 1996, where he was invited by a junior lecturer from Iaşi who had taken courses in the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and wanted his colleagues at home to share some of the experience. Jeremy’s ten lectures outlining Jewish culture and history, in which he also responded as a liturgist to Yerushalmi’s famous work Zakhor, had the shape of a book. But plans to translate and publish it in the 1990s were shelved when his Romanian academic host, Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu, was headhunted to become Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and later served successively as Foreign Minister, Director of Foreign Intelligence and finally as Prime Minister.
On returning to the academic world in 2016, one of his first projects was to ask Jeremy to revise the 1990s lectures for publication as a book entitled Text, Time and Territory: Rereading Jewish Culture. In Romanian it is being issued as Text, Timp şi Teritoriu, by Polirom, in May 2019. The cover design, shown here, is from a Sephardi manuscript of 1299. We hope an English-language will be on the way soon.