Table of Contents:
  • Ancient Israel and classical Judaism. Anthology in the Torah and the question of Deuteronomy / Jeffrey Tigay
  • Wisdom and the anthological temper / James Kugel
  • Order, sequence, and selection: the Mishnah's anthological choices / Yaakov Elman
  • Anthological dimensions of the Babylonian Talmud / Eliezer Segal
  • Anthology and polysemy in classical midrash / David Stern
  • The Middle Ages. The prayerbook (siddur) as an anthology of Judaism / Joseph Tabory
  • Yalqut Shim'oni and the medieval midrashic anthology / Jacob Elbaum
  • The Hebrew narrative anthology in the Middle Ages / Eli Yassif
  • Midrash rabbah and the medieval collector mentality / Marc Bregman
  • The modern period. Homo anthologicus: Micha Joseph Berdyczewski and the anthological genre / Zippora Kagan
  • Sefer ha'aggadah: creating a classic anthology / Mark Kiel
  • The ingathering of traditions: Zionism's anthology projects / Israel Bartal
  • Gender and the anthological tradition in modern Yiddish poetry / Kathryn Hellerstein
  • Our poetry is like an orange grove: anthologies of Hebrew poetry in Eretz-Yisrael / Hannan Hever
  • Anthologizing the vernacular: collections of Yiddish literature in English translation / Jeffrey Shandler
  • Textualizing the tales of the People of the Book: folk.
  • narrative anthologies and national identity in modern Israel / Galit Hasan-Rokem
  • The Holocaust according to its anthologists / David Roskies.