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Mayses Noyroim is a Yiddish booklet published in the second decade of the twentieth century documenting the wonders performed by Ya’akov Arie Guterman (1792–1874). The path of this renowned figure from Radzymin led him through the courts of the most important Hasidic leaders of Poland. The booklet of only 40 pages presents the protagonist as the rightful successor of the tsaddikim of Lublin, Przysucha...
The article discusses foreign magical incantations within the healing practices of the East-European Jewry. Indicating the importance of the category of “strangeness”, it examines several magical texts, focusing on their adaptation and translation into Yiddish culture.
The students of the Judaic Studies Chair of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków have come up with plans to publish a scientific journal on a number of occasions since 2000. Since 2005, the journal has appeared at regular intervals, published by the Research Circle of students of Judaic Studies. Its title means the nightingale in three languages: Hebrew, Polish, and Yiddish.
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