Moshe Taube, Ph.D. Professor, Tamara and Saveli Grinberg Chair in Russian Studies

Born 1948, Szczecin (Poland); Ph.D. 1979, University of Paris (Sorbonne); Lecturer 1983; Senior Lecturer 1985; Associate Professor 1995;
Professor 2003.

Office Telephone:	972-2-588-3835
Room:	6613, Gush 6, 6th floor
Office Hours:	Tuesday, 13:00-14:00
E-Mail:	mstaube@mscc.huji.ac.il

• Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian language and literature
• Translations from the Hebrew in ancient Russia and the Great Duchy of Lithuania
• Influence of Slavic languages on Yiddish syntax
• The beginnings of modern Eastern Yiddish
• Contemporary Yiddish in Jerusalem

• A critical edition of the "Logic of the Judaizers," with an English translation, commentary and glossary. Funding: Israel Science Foundation (1995-1998); Accepted for publication by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
• A critical edition of the Slavic version of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Secretum Secretorum (with William F. Ryan), to be published by the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Studies, University of London in their series Studies and Texts. Funding: Israel Science Foundation and the British Academy of Science.
• An edition of the four Old Testament Hagiographa from the Vilnius ms. 262, containing the books of Daniel, Job, Proverbs and Psalms, in a translation from Hebrew into Ruthenian. Funding: Israel Science Foundation.
• Subordination and competing strategies in Yiddish. A corpus-based analysis of strategies of hypotaxis in Yiddish, a joint project involving teams from the University of Jena and from the Hebrew University. Funding: GIF.
• Medieval East Slavic translations of Hebrew texts
  The whole corpus of 15th century East Slavic translations from Hebrew is being investigated, in order to establish its composition, linguistic characteristics, homogeneity or heterogeneity, circumstances and purpose of translation. A critical edition of the "Logic of the Judaizers" is being prepared, based on all extant manuscripts, with an English translation, a commentary and a glossary. Additional texts to be prepared are the "Secret of Secrets" and "The Third Sacking of Jerusalem, by Titus."

Academic year 2011-2012

10801	Introduction to linguistics
26204	The History of the Russian language
26204	Old Church Slavonic
26842	Language of the Russian chronicles
41013	Languages in contact
41471	Topic in Yidddish grammar

• Taube, M. (1980) On the Penetration of the Perfect into the Russian Narrative System, Russian Linguistics 5: 121-131.
• Taube, M. (1981) Participe et Gérondif en Vieux Russe, Folia Linguistica Historica 2/1: 125-132.
• Taube, M. (1982) Le Parfait Participial en Yiddish, Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 77: 331-340.
• Taube, M. (1984) Langues-être, Langues-avoir et le Yiddish, Orbis 33/1-2 [1989], 222-235.
• Taube, M. and M. Altbauer (1984) The Slavonic Book of Esther: When, Where and from What Language Was it Translated, Harvard Ukrainian Studies 8/3: 19-35.
• Taube, M. (1985) Le Développement d'un Auxiliaire Modal en Yiddish: lozn 'laisser', in J. Fisiak (ed.) Papers from the 6th International Conference on Historical Linguistics [=Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science IV, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, vol. 34]: 499-514.
• Taube, M. (1985) On Two Related Slavic Translations of the Song of Songs, Slavica Hierosolymitana 7: 203-210.
• Taube, M. (1986) Old Russian блискъ 'pavement'? Die Welt der Slaven 31/1" 1-4.
• Taube, M. (1987) The Development of Aspectual Auxiliaries in Yiddish, Word 38/1: 13-25.
• Taube, M. (1987) Solomon's Chalice, the Latin Scriptures and the Bogomils, Slovo 37: 161-169.
• Taube, M. and H. Olmsted (1987) Повесть о Есфири : The Ostroh Bible and Maksim Grek's Translation of the Book of Esther, Harvard Ukrainian Studies 11: 100-117.
• Taube, M. and H.G.Lunt (1988) Early East-Slavic Translations from Hebrew? Russian Linguistics 12: 147-187.
• Taube, M. (1988-89) An Early 12th Century Kievan Fragment of the Беседа Трех Святителей, Harvard Ukrainian Studies 12-13: 346-359.
• Taube, M. (1989) О Генезисе одного рассказа в составе Еллинского Летописца второй редакции (о Взятии Иерусалима Титом) , in W. Moskovich et alii (eds.) Russian Literature and History: in Honour of Professor I. Serman, Jerusalem, pp. 146-151.
• Taube, M. (1991) Une Source Inconnue de la Chronographie Russe: le 'Dialogue de Timothée et Aquila', Revue des Études Slaves 63/1: 113-122.
• Taube, M. (1992) On some unidentified and misidentified sources of the Academy Chronograph. In: Russian Philology and Literature Presented to Prof. Victor D. Levin on his 75th birthday, eds. W. Moskovich et al., Jerusalem, The Center for the Study of Slavic Languages, Hebrew University, pp. 365-375.
• Taube, M. (1992) Slavic-Hebrew Concordantial Glossary to the five Biblical Scrolls. In: M. Altbauer, The Five Biblical Scrolls in a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Translation into Belorussian. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, pp. 249-421.
• Taube, M. (1993) On the Slavic life of Moses and its Hebrew sources. In: Jews and Slavs I, eds. W. Moskovich et al., Jerusalem-St. Petersburg, Nauka, pp. 84-119.
• Mazor, Y. and Taube, M. (1994) A Hassidic ritual dance: the Mitsve-Tants in Jerusalemite weddings. In: Studies in Jewish Oral Tradition: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Yuval 6), eds. I. Adler, F. Alvarez-Pereyre, E. Serrousi and L. Shalem, Jerusalem, Jewish Music Research Centre, pp. 164-224.
• Taube, M. (1994) On factivity, emotivity and choice of conjunction in Yiddish. Studies in Language, 18(1): 113-125.
• Lunt, H.G and Taube, M. (1994) The Slavonic Book of Esther: Translation from the Hebrew or evidence for a lost Greek text? Harvard Theological Review, 87(3): 347-362.
• Taube M. (1995) The "Poem on the Soul" in the Laodicean Epistle and the literature of the Judaizers. Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 19: 563-577.
• Taube, M. (1995) The Kievan Jew Zacharia and the astronomical works of the Judaizers. In: Jews and Slavs 3, eds. W. Moskovich et al., pp. 168-198.
• Taube, M. (1996) תבנית הד ביידיש, מסורות ט-י-יא (Echo-construction in Yiddish. Massorot), 9-10-11: 397-421.
• Taube, M. (1997) Послесловие к Логическим Терминам Маимонида и Ересь Жидовствующих. In: In Memoriam: Pamjati Ja. S. Lur'e, eds. N.M.Botvinnik and E.I.Vaneeva, St. Peterburg, Feniks, pp. 239-246.
• Taube, M. (1998) The spiritual circle in the "Secret of Secrets" and the "Poem on the Soul." Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 18(3/4) December 1994 [1998]: 342-355.
• Lunt, H.G. and Taube, M. (1998) The Slavonic Book of Esther: Text, Lexicon, Linguistic Analysis, Problems of Translation. Cambridge, MA, Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies, 311 pp. To see review by C.M. MacRobert click here. To see review by R. Mathiesen click here.
• Taube, M. (2000) Подлинный и вымшленный Иерусалим в восточнославянских переводах с еврейского 15-го века. In: Jews and Slavs, vol. 7, eds. W. Moskovich et al., Jerusalem, The Center for the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Hebrew University, pp. 41-47.
• Taube, M. (2004) ‘The Vilnius 262 Psalter: A Jewish Translation?’, in W. Moskovich et alii (eds.) Jews And Slavs 14: 36-45.
• Taube, M. (2005) The Book of Job in Vilnius 262, in: W. Moskovich et alii (eds.) Jews and Slavs 15, Jerusalem -Sofia: 281-296.
• Taube, M. (2005) The 15th c. Ruthenian translations from Hebrew and the Heresy of the Judaizers: Is there a connection?’ in: V.V. Ivanov et alii (eds.), Speculum Slaviae Orientalis: Muscovy, Ruthenia and Lithuania in the Late Middle Ages, Moscow: OGI, [= UCLA Slavic Studies IV], 185-208.
• Taube, M. (2006) Which Hebrew Text of Algazel’s Intentions served for the Translation of the Slavic Logika?, in: M. Taube, R. Timenchik, S. Schwarzband (eds.), Quadrivium: Festschrift in Honour of Professor Wolf Moskovich, Jerusalem: 47-52.
• Taube, M. (2007) ‘How imperfect can a Cleft Sentence be? Focusing dos- and es-Sentences in Yiddish’, in T. Bar and E. Cohen (eds.), Studies in Semitic and General Linguistics in Honour of Gideon Goldenberg, Münster: 345-377 [=AOAT 334]
• Taube, M. (2008) ‘The «Praise of the Virtuous Woman» from Hilandar’, in Mihajlević et alii (eds.) Slovo 56-57 (Festschrift for Anica Nazor), Zagreb 2008, 545-558. click to view (pre-print version)
• Taube, M. (2009) ‘A Long(-Forgotten) passive construction in Old Rusian’, Harvard Ukrainian Studies 28 (2006, appeared 2009), 287-305.
• Taube, M. (2010) ‘Transmission of Scientific Texts in 15th-Cent`ury Eastern Knaan’, Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism 10/2 (2010), 315-353.
• Taube, M. (2011) ‘Questions about the make-up and the making of the Old Testament books in the Vilnius Codex’, in: E.L. Alekseeva (ed.) Библеистика, Славистика, Русистика (Festschrift for A.A. Alexeev.), St. Petersburg , 315-320.
• Taube, M., (2012), Jewish-Christian Collaboration in Slavic Translations from Hebrew, in Izmirlieva, Valentina and B. Gasparov (eds.) Translation and Tradition in “Slavia Orthodoxa”. München : Lit Verlag. 2012. 26-45. 
• Taube, M., (2012), On the relative marker vos and Yiddish post-modifiers,in Aptroot, Marion et alii (eds.), Leket : Yidddish Studies Today. Düsseldorf : Düsseldorf University Press. 2012, 467-481
• Taube, M., (2013), kemoy-subordinatsye in yidish : narative az-zatsn. In: Bartal, Israel et alii (eds.), A Touch of Grace : Studies in Ashkenazi Culture, Women's History, and the Languages of the Jews Presented to Chava Turniansky.  Jerusalem : The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History. pp. לז-מו.


Book Reviews:

• Review of Joel Raba, The Contribution and the Recompense: The Land and the People of Israel in Medieval Russian Thought, Tel Aviv: Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center 2003, in: Zion, 71/2 (2006), 233-237.
  [על] יואל רבא, "התרומה והתמורה; ארץ ישראל ועם ישראל בעולמה הרוחני של רוסיה בימי הביניים" (תשס”ג).  ציון עא, ב (תשס”ו) 233-237


Encyclopedic Entries:

• ‘East Slavic texts’, in G. Hundert et alii (eds.), The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, Yale University Press, 2008.
• תרגומים מעברית לסלאווית ברוסיה ותנועת המתיהדים, תולדות יהודי רוסיה כרך א, בעריכת י. ברטל וא. קוליק, ירושלים: מרכז זלמן שזר התש”ע, ע”ע 290-308.
• “Ересь ‘жидовствующих’ и переводы с еврейского в средневековой Руси”. А. Кулик (ред.), История еврейского народа в России: от древности до раннего нового времени. Москва - Иерусалим: Гешарим – Мосты культуры, 2009, 367-397.


Translations:

• Hanna Krall, Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem, Kraków : Wyd. Literackie, 1977.
  Hebrew translation from Polish:
  להקדים את אלהים, מאת חנה קראל, מפולנית: משה טאובה, ירושלים:הוצאת אדם 1981
  (מהדורה שנייה: בן שמן: הוצאת מודן 2001)


In Press:

• The Logika of the Judaizers : a Fifteenth Century Ruthenian Translation from Hebrew. Critical edition of the Slavic texts presented alongside their Hebrew sources, with Introduction, English translation, and commentary, Jerusalem: Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
• ‘Verbal Hendiadys in Yiddish’, to appear in N. Jacobs, H. I. Aronson and T. Shannon (eds.) Yiddish and Typology. click to view (pre-print version)
• ‘On superordinate az-clauses in Yiddish narrative’, to appear in Aptroot, Marion & Hansen, Björn (eds.) Yiddish Language Structures (Empirical Approaches to Language Typology), Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
• ‘On argumentative az-clauses in Yiddish’, to appear in E. Grossman et alii (eds.), Festschrift for Ariel Shisha-Halevy.
• ‘The Slavic version of Maimonides’ De Coitu’, (with W.F. Ryan), to appear in: Maimonides’ De Coitu in Arabic, Hebrew, Latin and Slavic, edited by Gerrit Bos.