Editorial

Abstract

The major part of this issue is the end result of a conversation that began two years ago with Dr Beniamino Fortis. I had contacted him with a view to the possibility of publishing papers from a conference on the Venice Ghetto. When it was clear that they were no longer available, he raised the idea of organising papers based on his own research area at the Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg related to modern Jewish philosophy and aesthetics, as well as in the field of Jewish-Christian relations at the Seminar für Katholische Theologie der Freien Universität Berlin under the direction of Professor Rainer Kampling. Since both of these areas are firmly within the remit of the journal, I was happy to invite him to edit a collection of papers which reaches its final form here as ‘Relation in Judaism – Judaism in Relation’. He introduces it as well as contributing his own article, ‘Idolatry and Relation: Martin Buber's View’. I would like to express my gratitude for the work he has undertaken in conceiving, inviting and editing the collection.