Editor's Foreword

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Editor's Foreword Gad Freudenthal (bio) With a great sense of debt and gratitude I again acknowledge the generous publication grant for 2006 by the American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR). AAJR's generous grants during the past three years have made it possible for Aleph to be distributed by Indiana University Press and to become accessible online via MUSE. I especially appreciate the help and encouragement offered by the AAJR fellows who were instrumental in obtaining this support. I am equally indebted to the Fondation pour la mémoire de la Shoah (Paris) for a grant to help defray the production costs of Aleph 6 (2006). This issue of Aleph is almost exclusively devoted to Abraham Ibn Ezra. Preliminary versions of some of the papers published here were presented at a workshop held at the Warburg Institute in London on November 29, 2004. I am grateful to the organizers of the workshop, Charles Burnett and Tony Lévy, for their friendly collaboration. For obvious reasons no book reviews could be included this time. We hope to catch up in Aleph 7. Gad Freudenthal Gad Freudenthal is permanent senior researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. His work focuses on medieval and early modern science in Hebrew cultures. His most recent publication is Science in the Medieval Hebrew and Arabic Traditions (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005). He is also the editor of Aleph. Copyright © 2006 Aleph, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem