Eduard Feliu i Mabres (1938-2009)

Dr. Eduard Feliu i Mabres, the president of the Catalan Hebraic Studies
Society, has died. Dr. Feliu was an eminent scholar of the cultural history of
Judaism in the territories in which Catalan is spoken. His work notably included
the translation to Catalan of texts in medieval and modern Hebrew by
various authors and the study of little-researched aspects of the presence of the
Jewish culture in Catalonia. He received an honorary degree from the University
of Barcelona in 2007.