Nahem Ilan

Hemdat Hadarom College, Jewish History, Faculty Member

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Professor Nahem Ilan teaches at Hemdat Hadarom, College of Education at Netivot. His research focuses on the intellectual history and culture of Jews in Spain and the Orient in the past thousand years, especially in Judeo-Arabic.

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*Studies of Leadership Phenomenon in Jewish Communities during the Middle Ages: A Jubilee Festschrift on the Occasion of the Seventieth Birthday of Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson*, eds. Nahem Ilan, Haggai Ben-Shammai, and Miriam Frenkel (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute and Magnes Press, 2023; Hebrew)

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Amram ibn Yaḥyā Koraḥ, *Neve Shalom: A Commentary on Rav Saadia Gaon’s Tafsir*, ed. Nahem Ilan (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2022; Hebrew)

*Sefunot, vol. 25*, ed. Nahem Ilan (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2017; Hebrew)

*Sefunot, vol. 24*, eds. Haggai Ben-Shammai and Nahem Ilan (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2015; Hebrew)

Abraham Saba, *Zeror Hahayyim: Commentary on Pirqei Avot (Chapters 4-6)*, ed. Nahem Ilan (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2014; Hebrew)

*Carmi Sheli: Studies on Aggadah and Its Interpretation – Presented to Professor Carmi Horowitz*, Arnon Atzmon, Avraham Grossman, Nahem Ilan, Michael Shmidman, and Joseph Tabory (New York: Touro College Press, 2012)

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*Preachers, Sermons, and Homiletics in Jewish Culture*, eds. Kimmy Caplan, Carmi Horowitz, and Nahem Ilan (Jerusalem: Shazar, 2012; Hebrew)

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*Egypt*, ed. Nahem Ilan (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi, 2008; Hebrew)

Nahem Ilan, *The Community Register (Pinkas) of the Jewish Community in Sudan* (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2007; Hebrew)

Yehuda Ratzhaby, *Borrowed Motifs in Jewish Literature*, ed. Nahem Ilan (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2006; Hebrew)

*The Intertwined Worlds of Islam: Essays in Memory of Hava Lazarus-Yafeh*, ed. Nahem Ilan (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2002; Hebrew)

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*Jewish Culture in the Eye of the Storm: A Jubilee Book in Honor of Yosef Ahituv*, eds. Avi Sagi and Nahem Ilan (Ein Zurim: Kibbutz Hameuhad, 2002; Hebrew)

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*Ayin Tova, A Good Eye – Dialogue and Polemic in Jewish Culture: A Jubilee Book in Honor of Tova Ilan*, ed. Nahem Ilan (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1999; Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “‘Pursuing the Truth’ and ‘A Way for the Public’: Studies in the Teaching of Rabbi Israel Israeli of Toledo,” (PhD Dissertation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1999; Hebrew)

Nahem Ilan, *Metzah Aharon’ Commentary on the Pentateuch by Rabbi Aharon Garish* (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1996; Hebrew)

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Articles by Nahem Ilan

Nahem Ilan, “‘This Miracle is Greater than All of Them’: The Opinion of Rabbi Joseph ben Shushan (the Second) on the Significance of the Cultural and Judicial Autonomy of Jews in Christian Spain,” in Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson Jubilee Festschrift (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2023), 6-24 (Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, Haggai Ben-Shammai, and Miriam Frenkel, “Preface,” in Studies of Leadership Phenomenon in Jewish Communities during the Middle Ages: Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson Jubilee Festschrift (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute and Magnes Press, 2023), VII (Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “Reading Saadia Gaon in Arabic,” Pe’amim, no. 157 (2019): 177-182 (Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “Aspects of Modernity in the Jewish Community in Sudan of the First Half of the Twentieth Century,” Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 70, no. 1 (April 2019): 133-154

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Nahem Ilan, “‘Lekah Tov’ by Rabbi Tobiah ben Eliezer: Midrash or Commentary?” in Shalom Pinhas-Cohen, ed., Al Yad Yehiel, Under the Hand of Yehiel: Studies Dedicated to Yechiel Kara (Israel, 2018), 175-186 (Hebrew)

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Amram ibn Yaḥyā Koraḥ, *Neve Shalom: A Commentary on Rav Saadia Gaon’s Tafsir*, ed. Nahem Ilan (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2022; Hebrew)

*Sefunot, vol. 25*, ed. Nahem Ilan (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2017; Hebrew)

*Sefunot, vol. 24*, eds. Haggai Ben-Shammai and Nahem Ilan (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2015; Hebrew)

Abraham Saba, *Zeror Hahayyim: Commentary on Pirqei Avot (Chapters 4-6)*, ed. Nahem Ilan (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2014; Hebrew)

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*Preachers, Sermons, and Homiletics in Jewish Culture*, eds. Kimmy Caplan, Carmi Horowitz, and Nahem Ilan (Jerusalem: Shazar, 2012; Hebrew)

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*Egypt*, ed. Nahem Ilan (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi, 2008; Hebrew)

Nahem Ilan, *The Community Register (Pinkas) of the Jewish Community in Sudan* (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2007; Hebrew)

Yehuda Ratzhaby, *Borrowed Motifs in Jewish Literature*, ed. Nahem Ilan (Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2006; Hebrew)

*The Intertwined Worlds of Islam: Essays in Memory of Hava Lazarus-Yafeh*, ed. Nahem Ilan (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 2002; Hebrew)

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*Jewish Culture in the Eye of the Storm: A Jubilee Book in Honor of Yosef Ahituv*, eds. Avi Sagi and Nahem Ilan (Ein Zurim: Kibbutz Hameuhad, 2002; Hebrew)

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*Ayin Tova, A Good Eye – Dialogue and Polemic in Jewish Culture: A Jubilee Book in Honor of Tova Ilan*, ed. Nahem Ilan (Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1999; Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “‘Pursuing the Truth’ and ‘A Way for the Public’: Studies in the Teaching of Rabbi Israel Israeli of Toledo,” (PhD Dissertation, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1999; Hebrew)

Nahem Ilan, *Metzah Aharon’ Commentary on the Pentateuch by Rabbi Aharon Garish* (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute, 1996; Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “Reading Saadia Gaon in Arabic,” Pe’amim, no. 157 (2019): 177-182 (Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “Aspects of Modernity in the Jewish Community in Sudan of the First Half of the Twentieth Century,” Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 70, no. 1 (April 2019): 133-154

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Nahem Ilan, “Review of ‘Arabic Linguistics’, by Joshua Blau,” Leshonenu, vol. 80, no. 4 (2018): 505-515 (Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “Aspects of Abraham Maimonides’ Attitude towards Christians in His Commentary on Genesis 36,” in Yoram Erder, et al., eds., Yad Moshe: Moshe Gil Memorial Volume [=Te‘uda, vol. 29] (Tel-Aviv: Tel-Aviv University Press, 2018), 121-146 (Hebrew)

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Dan Greenberger, Steven Bowman, and Nahem Ilan, “From the Quill of Hananel ben Shmuel,” Ginzei Qedem, vol. 13 (2017): 9-23 (Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “The Love of One’s Neighbor in Yemenite Midrashic Literature,” in Yosef Yuval Tobi, et al., eds., Streams of Love: Yuvle Ahava: In Loving Memory of Yuval Haiman (Jerusalem: Haiman Family, 2017), 285-299 (Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “Class Photograph,” Pe’amim, no. 150-152 (2017): 115-127 (Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “Aspects of Abraham Maimuni’s Attitude towards Christians in His Commentary on Genesis 36,” in Miriam L. Hjälm, ed., Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition: The Bible in Arabic among Jews, Christians and Muslims (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 252-279

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Nahem Ilan, “Rabbi Joseph Ben Shoshan and His Commentary on Tractate Avot as an Outstanding Example of an ‘Egodocument’,” Iberia Judaica, vol. 9 (2017): 83-112

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Nahem Ilan, “The Organization of the Jews of Sudan and its Impact on the Community,” in Avi Elkayam and Yosef Kaplan, eds., Satri Nidahim, Conceal the Outcasts: Jews with Hidden Identities (Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi, 2016), 317-328 (Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “Lamah/Lammah, Meaning No/Don’t in Saadya Gaon’s Translations and Commentary,” Shnaton: An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, vol. 24 (2016): 229-251 (Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “A Window to the Complex World of a Jewish Scholar in Fifteenth Century Spain,” Da’at, no. 78 (2015): 171-176 (Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “A Letter of Intervention on Behalf of the Greek Patriarch in Egypt,” in Moshe Bar-Asher and Steven D. Fraade, eds., Studies in the History and Culture of North African Jewry, vol. 3 (New Haven: Yale Program in Judaic Studies, 2015), 85-98

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Nahem Ilan, “Shabbat Kallah Sermons: A Preliminary Bibliographical Journey,” Alei Sefer, vol. 24-25 (2015): 215-251 (Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “‛Do Not Talk Excessively With Women’ (Avot 1:6): A Study of Selected Mediaeval Sefardic Commentaries,” Hispania Judaica Bulletin, vol. 10 (2014): 127–143

In this article I examine how medieval Sefardic commentators explained the words of Yose ben Yoha... more In this article I examine how medieval Sefardic commentators explained the words of Yose ben Yohanan of Jerusalem in Avot 1:5: "Do not talk excessively with women". Misogynist attitudes were part of the prevailing atmosphere in Spain during the latter half of the Middle Ages, but women played a role even in the Jewish public sphere, albeit to a lesser extent than men; and while there were expressions of condescension and hostility toward women, other voices were heard as well. The commentaries on Avot have much to teach us about the viewpoints, the problems, the concerns and beliefs of their authors and of the audiences for whom they were written. Since the commentators were cultural agents, we may assume that at least some of their as well as by the rabbis' direct and indirect followers.

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Nahem Ilan, “Between Mount Sinai and the Cliff of the Rock: Moses as the Ultimate Sufi in Rabbi Abraham Maimonides’ Torah Commentary,” in Haggai Ben-Shammai, et al., eds., Studies in Judaeo-Arabic Culture (Tel Aviv: Tel-Aviv University Press, 2014), 133–153 (Hebrew)

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Nahem Ilan, “Ḥasdei David on Avot by Zion Uzan (Tunis 1894) – Some Constructional, Linguistic, Content and Meaning Aspects,” Ben Ever La-Arav, vol. 4 (2014): 294–310 (Hebrew)

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