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Publications for Simcha Fishbane
Fishbane, S. (2010). Count your blessings: Jewish mourning rituals during the spring season (Sefirat Haomer). In T. Yoreh, J. Aubrey, J. Lewis, & M. Segal (Eds.), Vixens disturbing vineyards: Embarrassment and embracement of scriptures: Festschrift in honor of Harry Fox (leBeit Yoreh) (pp. 315-345). Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press.
Fishbane, S. (2010). Jewish beards: The symbolic representation of the rabbinic beard. In V.V. Mocalova (Ed.), Proceedings of the seventeenth annual international conference on Jewish studies (pp.113-129). Moscow, Russia: Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization "Sefer". This material can be found here.
Fishbane, S. (2009). Does Judaism give women time off for good behavior? The case of women working on Rosh Hodesh. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual International Conference of Jewish Studies: Part 2, (pp. 105-127). Moscow: Sefer, Moscow Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization. This material can be found here.
Fishbane, S. (2008). The boldness of an halakhist: an analysis of the writings of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein the Arukh Hashulhan: a collection of social-anthropological essays. Boston: Academic Studies Press. This material can be found here.
Fishbane, S. (2008). The ritual of Kapparot. The Jewish Journal of Sociology, 50(1), 67-76.
Fishbane, S. (2007). Deviancy in early rabbinic literature: A collection of socio-anthropological essays. Boston: Brill. This material can be found here.
Fishbane, S. (2007). Mercy is vouchsafed from heaven: Halakhah's response to violence as expressed in the Arukh Hashulkhan Orach Haim - sections 560 and 577-8. In R. R. Farber & S. Fishbane (Eds.), Jewish studies in violence: a collection of essays (pp. 105-121). Lanham, MD: University Press of America. This material can be found here.
Fishbane, S. (2007). Voodoo or Judaism: the riual of Kapparot. In O.V. Belova (Ed.), Folk medicine and magic in Slavic and Jewish cultural tradition (pp. 32-58). Moscow: Sefer.
Fishbane, S. (2006). Every dream becomes valid only by its interpretation: Dreams, dream interpretations and dream interpreters in the Babylonian Talmud. In O.V. Belova (Ed.), Dreams and Visions in Slavic and Jewish Cultural Tradition (pp. 29-64). Moscow: Sefer, International Center for Russian and East European Jewish Studies.
Fishbane, S. (2006). The structure and implicit message of Mishnah Tractate Nazir. In J. Neusner and A. J. Avery-Peck (Eds.), The Mishnah in Contemporary Perspective, Part 2 (pp. 110-135). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. This material can be found here.
Fishbane, S. (2005). In the case of women-any hand which makes many examinations is to be praised: Niddah as viewed by the rabbis of the Mishnah. In R. M. Kaplanov & V. V. Mochalova (Eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies, 1, 43-66. Moscow: Sefer. This material can be found here.
Fishbane, S. (2004). Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil. The physically handicapped in the Mishnah. In E. Weiner, & K. Burmistrov (Eds.), Problems of Jewish Identity: In memoriam of Professor Eugene Weiner (pp. 33-50). Moscow: Sefer.
Fishbane, S. (2004). The case of the modified mamzer in early rabbinic texts. In R. M. Kaplanov, & V. V. Mochalova (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies, 2, (pp. 44-56). Moscow: Sefer.
Fishbane, S. (2001). Four East European 19th century Jewish legal works. In K. IU. Burmistrov, R. M. Kaplanov, & V. V. Mochalova (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Jewish Studies (pp. 75-102). Moscow: Sefer.
Fishbane, S. (2001). The homilies of Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Halevi Epstein, the first sermon. Proceedings of the Tenth World Jewish Congress, Jerusalem.
Fishbane, S. (2000). Fools and crazies! How could they contemplate evil towards the king: The homilies of Rabbi Yechiel Halevi Epstein. In R. Margolin (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Congress of Jewish Studies: Division B. History of the Jewish people (pp. 241-255). Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies.
Fishbane, S. (2000). Secular studies are the supplement of Torah studies –Kol Ben Levi – The homilies of Rabbi Yehiel Mechel Halevi Epstein – The first sermon. The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, 3(1), 123-142. doi: 10.1163/157007000X00055
Fishbane, S. (1998). Go enjoy your acquisition- the prostitute in the Babylonian Talmud. In J. Neusner (Ed.), Approaches to Ancient Judaism-New Series, 13, 71–90. Atlanta: Scholars Press.
Fishbane, S. (1995). Back to the yeshiva: The social dynamics of an orthodox sabbath morning service. In J. Lightstone & F. Bird (Eds.), Ritual and ethnic identity: a comparative study of the social meaning of liturgical ritual in synagogues (pp. 123-133). Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier Press. This material can be found here.
Fishbane, S. (1995). Contemporary Bar Mitzvah rituals in modern orthodoxy. In J. Lightstone & F. Bird (Eds.), Ritual and ethnic identity: a comparative study of the social meaning of liturgical ritual in synagogues (pp. 155-167). Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier Press. This material can be found here.
Fishbane, S. (1995). Jewish morning rites: A process of resocialization. In J. Lightstone & F. Bird (Eds.), Ritual and ethnic identity: a comparative study of the social meaning of liturgical ritual in synagogues (pp. 169-184). Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier Press. This material can be found here.
Fishbane, S. (1995). The boldness of a halakhist: Rabbi Yechiel Mechel Epstein and modernity. In Y. Rabkin & I. Robinson (Eds.), The interaction of scientific and Jewish cultures in modern times (pp. 67-86). Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.
Fishbane, S. (1993). In any case there are no sinful thoughts- the role and status of women in Jewish law as expressed in the Arukh Hashulchan. Judaism, 42(4), 492-503. This material can be found here.
Fishbane, S. (1993). Most women engage in sorcery: An analysis of sorceresses in the Babylonian Talmud. Jewish History, 7(1), 27-42.
Fishbane, S. (1993). Most women engage in sorcery. In H. W. Basser & S. Fishbane (Eds.), Approaches to ancient Judaism, 5, 143-165. Atlanta: Scholars Press. This material can be found here.