There has never been any doubt that Abdul-Karim Rafeq has had an extraordinary impact in the study of the social history of Syria between the 16th and 19th centuries, not only in the volume of his ...

The festschrift is unique to academia, honoring a retiring faculty member with a compilation of essays written by authors in honor of the retiree. In the case of Peter Ochs, the University of Virginia ...

On a recent evening in Pico-Robertson, leading scholars, educators, and community leaders honored Dr. Michael Berenbaum with a new Festschrift—a collection of essays recognizing his extraordinary ...

A Festschrift for Anthony Coughlan: Essays on Sovereignty and Democracy is a deeply disappointing book. Billed as a festschrift, the intention is to celebrate its namesake's contribution to Irish ...

Stella Borg Barthet, Ivan Callus (Eds):Crosscurrents in Postcolonial Memory and Literature. A Festschrift for Daniel Massa. Malta University Press, 2016. With the season for festschrifts apparently ...

This festschrift is not just a vanilla narrative of what Keki Daruwalla has written or how he is placed in the annals of Indian poetry in English. Rather, it is also a very comprehensive process of ...

TREND-SETTER: Engineer Y.K. Lin's popular festschrift conference became an annual event. A scientist often wears several hats-teacher, mentor, administrator, and researcher. While many prominent ...

FESTSCHRIFT is a German word borrowed by English. It means “celebratory writing”. A festschrift is, says Concise Oxford English Dictionary, “a collection of writings published in honour of a scholar”.

The term ‘Festschrift’, from the German language, is a compound word with two separate meanings: The first, ‘fest,’ means a ‘festival,’ ‘feast’ or ‘celebration’; the second, ‘schrift,’ is a volume of ...