Acknowledgements
It is a pleasure to acknowledge the immense contribution of Patricia M. Ranum to this volume. In addition to translating the difficult texts and writing an introduction to the Spiritual Poems, she inserted hundreds of footnotes that explain terms, elaborated on Surin’s familiarity with different literary conventions and styles prevalent in seventeenth-century France, and identified many of the persons and personalities he mentions in his writings. “Mine and Yours is Hers” (Babylonian Talmud, Nedarim 50a). I also thank my research assistant, Ms. Amit Shafran for her help, Mr. Tim Page for his very careful editing, and Eitan Gavson for his excellent job indexing the book. The project, that was initiated by the indefatigable Robert A. Maryks, was generously supported by the Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in the Study of French Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Moshe Sluhovsky