recent publications

Just released:

Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics 

G. Khan ed., Leiden, Brill 2013 (3 volumes)

The Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics offers a systematic and comprehensive treatment of all aspects of the history and study of the Hebrew language from its earliest attested form to the present day. With over 950 entries and approximately 400 contributing scholars, the Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics is the authoritative reference work for students and researchers in the fields of Hebrew linguistics, general linguistics, Biblical studies, Hebrew and Jewish literature, and related fields.

Also available on line

http://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/encyclopedia-of-hebrew-language-and-linguistics 

Download  Italy: Pre-Modern period (1500-1700): 

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Gli ebrei del Salento (secoli IX-XVI)

a cura di Fabrizio Lelli 

September 2012  

Moshe Idel 

Gli ebrei di Saturno. 

Shabbat, sabba e sabbatianesimo 

a cura di Fabrizio Lelli e Elisabetta Zevi, Firenze, Giuntina 

Evraikì

Una diaspora mediterranea da Corfù a Trieste

T. Catalan, A. Di Fant, F. Lelli e M. Tabor (a cura di)

Trieste 2013

Ed. La Mongolfiera Libri

Two essays

• Storia della presenza ebraica a Corfù dalle origini al 1891, pp. 17-30. 
• Liturgia, lingue e manifestazioni letterarie e artistiche degli ebrei di Corfù, pp. 31-58.

In the past few years I have been working on Elijah Menahem Halfan, a 16th-century Venetian Kabbalist, on whose biography and literary production I have published the following three essays, the last of which recently released:

-       L'albero sefirotico di Eliyyà Menahem ben Abba Mari Halfan (Ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 44, 18), «Rinascimento», n.s., 43 (2008), pp. 271-290.

-       L'interpretazione teosofica della storia d'Israele nell'Epistola sulla storia della Cabbalà di Eliyyà Menahem ben Abba Mari Halfan, in P. Arfé, I. Caiazzo e A. Sannino (a cura di), Adorare caelestia, gubernare terrena. Atti del colloquio internazionale in onore di Paolo Lucentini (Napoli, 6-7 Novembre 2010) («Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia» 58), Turnhout, Brepols, 2011, pp. 475-505.

-       Ricezione e interpretazione della Cabbalà nel pensiero di Eliyyà Menahem Halfan, «Rivista di Storia e Letteratura Religiosa», 47/3 (2011), pp. 547-572.

I gave a talk on Halfan's sephirotic tree at the Internation Conference organized by the University of Haifa on Text and Image in Religious Cosmography: Reading Ilanot and Parallel Artifacts (July 25-27, 2011).

Last year, during a research semester spent at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies in Philadelphia, I studied Halfan's library, on which I gave a talk in Venice at a conference organized by the Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea at the Università "Ca' Foscari" (Intellettuali ebrei a Venezia nell'età del ghetto, Venezia, Ca' Cappello, May 23, 2011).