Bibliography of Ross Brannâs Publications
Books
Andalusi Moorings: Al-Andalus & Sefarad as Tropes of Muslim and Jewish Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming.
Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Jews and Muslims in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Islamic Spain. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.
Edited Volumes
Brann, Ross, ed. âForum on Peter Coleâs The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950â1492.â La Corónica 38.2 (2010): 161â222.
Alfonso, Esperanza, and Ross Brann, eds. âAl-Andalus and Its Legacies.â Special issue, Comparative Literature Studies 45.2 (2008).
Brann, Ross, and Adam Sutcliffe, eds. Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture: From Al-Andalus to the Haskalah. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
From Auschwitz to Ithaca: The Transnational Journey of Jake Geldwert. With an introduction by Diane L. Wolf. Edited by Ross Brann. Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program of Jewish Studies, Cornell University 6. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 2002.
Brann, Ross, ed. Languages of Power in Islamic Spain. Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program of Jewish Studies, Cornell University 3. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1997.
Rabinowitz, Isaac. A Witness Forever: Ancient Israelâs Perception of Literature and the Resultant Hebrew Bible. Edited by Ross Brann and David I. Owen. Occasional Publications of the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Program of Jewish Studies, Cornell University. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1993.
Articles and Contributions to Books
âArabic Alongside and into Hebrew: Andalusi Hebrew Literature in Meta-Critical Perspective.â In The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iberia: Unity and Diversity. Edited by E. Michael Gerli. Abingdon: Routledge, forthcoming.
Schiffman, Lawrence, and Ross Brann. âAn Aramaic Writ from Ramla (1056): A Translation and Geniza Study.â In Text, Tradition and the History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. Edited by Stuart Miller. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.
âJewish Perceptions of and Attitudes towards Muslims.â In Cambridge History of Judaism. Volume 5: Jews and Judaism in the Islamic World, Seventh through Fifteenth Centuries. Edited by Phillip I. Lieberman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
âInscribing the Mediterranean Journey: Two Paradigmatic Texts from Twelfth Century Iberia.â In The Mediterranean Seminar I: The Medieval Mediterranean and the Emergence of the West. Edited by Sharon Kinoshita and Brian Catlos. New York: Palgrave-McMillan, forthcoming.
âLiterature as a Source for Jewish History.â Pages 406â412 in The Routledge Handbook of Jewish History and Historiography. Edited by Dean Phillip Bell. New York: Routledge, 2018.
âJews under Classical Islam.â Oxford Bibliographies in Jewish Studies. Edited by Naomi Seidman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. doi:10.1093/OBO/9780199840731-0097.
âRuler (ʾAmÄ«nÅ«kÄl).â Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 5 (2013): 106â110.
âAndalusi âExceptionalism.ââ¯â Pages 119â134 in A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History. Edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Karla Mallette. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.
âCompeting Tropes of Eleventh Century Andalusi Jewish Culture.â Pages 7â26 in Ot LeTova: Essays in Honor of Professor Tova Rosen. Edited by Eli Yassif, Haviva Ishay, and Uriah Kfir. Mikan 11/El Prezente 6. Beer Sheba: Heksherim Research Center and the Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University and the Gaon Center for Ladino Culture, 2012.
âIbn BassÄm, from Al-DhakhÄ«ra fÄ« maḥÄsin ahl al-jazÄ«ra.â Translated from Arabic by Ross Brann. Pages 125â127 in Medieval Iberia. 2nd ed. Edited by Remie Constable. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
âJewish Lament in the Wake of Almohad Persecutions by Abraham ibn Ê¿Ezra.â Translated from Hebrew by Ross Brann. Pages 265â266 in Medieval Iberia, 2nd ed. Edited by Remie Constable. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
âIntroductionâ to âForum on Peter Coleâs The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950â1492.â La Corónica 38.2 (2010): 163â165.
âThe Moors?â Medieval Encounters 15 (2009): 307â318.
Alfonso, Esperanza, and Ross Brann. âEditorsâ Introduction to Al-Andalus and its Legacies.â Comparative Literature Studies 45 (2008): 133â136.
âHe Said, She Said: Re-inscribing the Andalusi Arabic Love Lyric.â Pages 7â15 in Raymond P. Scheindlin Festschrift. Edited by Michael Rand and Jonathan Decter. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007.
âEntre Sefarad et Terre dââ¯Israël. Figures concurrentes du discours poétique judéo-andalou.â Pages 11â30 in Les Sépharades en littérature: Un parcours millénaire. Edited by Esther Benbassa. Paris: Presses de lââ¯Université de Paris-Sorbonne, 2005.
âIntroduction.â Pages 1â18 in Renewing the Past, Reconfiguring Jewish Culture: From Al-Andalus to the Haskalah. Edited by Ross Brann and Adam Sutcliffe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.
âWriting Religion at Cornell (Reflections of a Penitent Professor).â Pages 201â208 in Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Cultures of Writing at Cornell. Edited by Jonathan Monroe. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003.
âThe Hebrew Lyric in Perspective.â Pages 1â20 in Yonah David Festschrift. Edited by Tova Rosen. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 2003.
âLa PoesÃa en la Cultura Literaria Hebrea de al-Andalus.â Pages 9â25 in PoesÃa Hebrea en Al-Andalus. Edited by Judit Targarona Borrás and Angel Sáenz-Badillos. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2003.
âReflexiones sobre el arabe y la identidad literaria de los judios de al-Andalus.â Pages 13â28 in Judios en tierras de Islam: Intellectuales musulmanes y judios en contacto, al-Andalus y el maghreb. Edited by Maribel Fierro. Madrid: Casa de Velazquez/Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 2002.
âThe Arabized Jews.â Pages 435â454 in The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: The Literature of Al-Andalus. Edited by MarÃa Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, and Michael Sells. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
âJudah ha-Levi.â Pages 265â281 in The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: The Literature of Al-Andalus. Edited by Maria Rosa Menocal, Raymond P. Scheindlin, and Michael Sells. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
âThe Fire of Love Poetry Has Kissed Me, How Can I Resist? The Medieval Hebrew Lyric in Perspective.â Pages 317â333 in Medieval Lyric: Genres in Historical Context. Edited by William D. Paden. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
ââ¯âHow Can My Heart be in the East?â Intertextual Irony in Judah ha-Levi.â Pages 365â379 in Judaism and Islam: Boundaries, Communication, and Interaction Essays in Honor of William Brinner. Edited by F. Astren, B.H. Hary and J.L. Hayes. Leiden: Brill, 2000.
âArabic Representations of Samuel the Nagid.â Pages 443â465 in Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical and Judaic Studies in Honor of Baruch A. Levine. Edited by R. Chazan, B. Hallo, and L. Schiffman. Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1999.
âImagenes de judios en la literatura hispano-arabe.â Pages 71â100 in La sociedad medieval a traves de la literatura hispanojudia. Edited by R. Izquierdo Benito and A. Sáenz-Badillos. Cuenca: Ediciones de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 1998.
âTextualizing Ambivalence in Islamic Spain: Arabic Representations of IsmÄÊ¿Ä«l ibn NaghrÄ«lah.â Pages 107â135 in Languages of Power in Islamic Spain. Edited by Ross Brann. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1997.
Brann, Ross, Angel Sáenz-Badillos, and Judit Targarona. âThe Poetic Universe of Samuel ibn Sasson, Hebrew Poet of Fourteenth-Century Castile.â Prooftexts 16.1 (1996): 75â103.
Brann, Ross, Angel Sáenz-Badillos, and Judit Targarona Borrás. âShemuʾel ibn Sason y su poesia Hebrea en la Castilla del Siglo XIV.â La Corónica 24.2 (1996): 56â74.
âConstructions of Exile in Hispano-Hebrew and Hispano-Arabic Elegiesâ (Hebrew). Pages 45â61 in Israel Levin Jubilee Volume. Edited by Tova Rosen and Reuven Tsur. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 1994.
âAmbivalence toward Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain.â Pages 121â138 in Mozarabs, Moriscos and Jews. Edited by Hanna Kassis. Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 1993.
âPower in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Judah al-Hariziâs Tahkemoni.â Princeton Papers in Near Eastern Studies 1 (1992): 1â22.
Brann, Ross, Lawrence H. Schiffman, Michael D. Swartz. âEdition and Translation of T-S K 1.18,30.â Pages 69â75 in Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah: Selected Texts from Taylor Schechter Box K1. Semitic Texts and Studies 1. Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1992.
âOf Revelry, Rhetoric, and Rabbis.â Association for Jewish Studies Review 15 (1990): 119â132.
âThe Hebrew Bible and Andalusian Hebrew Poetry: Cultural Nationalism or Cultural Ambiguity?â Pages 101â131 in Approaches to Judaism in Medieval Times 3. Edited by D.R. Blumenthal. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.
âJudah Halevi: The Compunctious Poet.â Prooftexts 7 (1987): 123â143.
âThe âDissembling Poetâ in Medieval Hebrew Literature: The Dimensions of a Literary Topos.â JAOS 107 (1987): 39â54.
âThe Functions of Rhetoric in a Medieval Hebrew Poem.â Pages 429â448 in Aharon Mirsky Jubilee Volume. Edited by Zvi Malachi. Lod: The Habermann Institute for Literary Research, 1986.
âThe Experience of Judaism under the Orbit of Medieval Islam.â Occasional Papers on the Near East 3 (New York: New York University Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, 1985).
âTranslation of Ms. Firkowicz 2., Hebrew-Arabic Collection, No. 1345 (Salmon ben Yeruhim on Psalm 30:10).â Pages 193â194 in F.E. Peters, Jerusalem: The Holy City in the Eyes of Chroniclers, Visitors, Pilgrims, and Prophets from the Days of Abraham to the Beginnings of Modern Times. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Contributions to Reference Works
âIbn Ezra, Moses.â In The Routledge Medieval Encyclopedia Online. Edited by Ram Ben-Shalom, forthcoming.
âDunash Ben Labrat,â âIbn Gabirol, Solomon,â and âPoetry, Medieval: Muslim World.â In The Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture. Edited by Judith R. Baskin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
âMoses ibn Ê¿Ezra.â In Encyclopedia of the Jews in Islamic Lands. Edited by N. Stillman and A. Sáenz-Badillos. Leiden: Brill, 2010.
âIbn Gabirol,â âIbn Nagrela,â and âGrammar and Grammarians: Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.â In Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Josef W. Meri. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Six contributions to the Holy People of the World. Edited by P. Jestice. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
âAbulafia, Todros ben Judah Ha-Levi,â âIbn Ezra, Abraham,â âIbn Ezra, Moses,â âYosef ben Meir ibn Zabara,â and âYehuda Ha-Levi.â In Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia. Edited by E. Michael Gerli. New York: Routledge, 2003.
âShemuʾel ha-Nagid.â In The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion. Edited by R.J.Z. Werblowsky and G. Wigoder. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
âHebrew Prosody and Poetics [Medieval].â In The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by A. Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
Miscellaneous Publications
âSefarad and al-Andalus: Whatâs in a Name?â Frankel Institute Annual 2018 Sefardic Identities, forthcoming.
â(Home)land: Reflections on Andalusi Jewish Ideas about Place.â Association for Jewish Studies Perspectives (Spring 2014): 20â21.
âAn Area Studies Perspective.â Pages 7â11 in Do the Humanities Have to be Useful? Edited by G. Peter LePage, Carolyn Martin, and Mohsen Mostafavi. Ithaca: Cornell University, 2006.
Brann, Ross, and Richard Strassberg. âMilton R. Konvitz.â Pages 30â34 in Memorial Statements of the Faculty, 2003â2004.
âHebrew Literary Culture in Spain (al-Andalus) in the Age of the Genizah.â Pages 65â78 in Cairoâs Ben Ezra Synagogue: A Gate Way to Medieval Mediterranean Life. Edited by Jacob Lassner. Chicago: Spertus Museum, 2001.
âJews of Cuba: A Brief Historical Sketch.â Page 3 in Contemporary Cuban Art Exhibit by Jewish Cuban Artists. Cornell University Hillel and The Latin American Studies Program, 2000.
âReflections on the Literary Culture of the Jews of Spain.â Proceedings of the 1992 Hornstein Institute for Distinguished Leaders [Brandeis University] (1993): 13â26.
âThe Other 1492.â Arts & Sciences Newsletter, Cornell University (1992): 4.
âIsaac Rabinowitz, 1909â1988.â Newsletter of the American Oriental Society 8 (October 1989): 10â13.
âIsaac Rabinowitz: A Scholarâs Life.â Pages 145â148 in Isaac Rabinowitz. A Witness Forever: Ancient Israelâs Perception of Literature and the Resultant Hebrew Bible. Edited by Ross Brann and David I. Owen. Bethesda, MD: CDL Press, 1994.
âIsaac Rabinowitz.â Memorial Statements of the Faculty, Cornell University, 1989.