Introductory Comments

The ninth issue of Colloquia Humanistica (2020) contains a thematic section entitled Sephardim, Ashkenazim and Non-Jewish Peoples: Encounters Across Europe, but in fact the whole issue is devoted to Jewish topics. In the Materials, Sources, Archives section, this time we present four papers which deal with relevant religious texts, literature, biography and, finally, historical documents. In the Discussion. Presentations. Book Reviews segment we offer readers two reviews of interesting books, and also one paper which, through the scholar's personal biography, reflects on how snippets of the Jewish past tend to linger on in the form of absent presences.