This article examines the goals, methodology and sources of the twelfth-century Hebraist Nicolaus Maniacoria's Suffraganeus bibliothece. A summary of his statements concerning the aims and purpose of ...

I'm sure you can think of words that come from Hebrew or Yiddish — religious words like rabbi and torah, food words like bagel and latke, cultural words like chutzpah and verklempt. But there's a very ...