Batsheva Goldman-Ida, art historian and museum curator, introduces the article by Jiří Mordechai Georgo Langer (1894, Prague–1943, Tel Aviv): “On the Function of the Jewish Doorpost Scroll,” presented for the first time in English translation, and originally written for the Freud journal Imago in 1928. Langer, a Hebrew poet and teacher of Jewish studies was a friend of Franz Kafka. Langer joined the Belz Hasidism from 1913–16 and was one of the people who introduced Kafka to Hasidism. Langer suggests an explanatory model for Jewish religious artifacts such as the Mezuzah and Phylacteries in the context of compulsion neuroses, referencing the rites of indigenous people and totem theory. The introduction provides background material on the author and details of his other books and endeavors, as well as a framework to better appreciate his poetry and scholarly work. Langer sought a revival of “comrade love” whose homerotic bias is of interest today. His essay on the Mezuzah opens up a range of questions on Jewish artifacts, psychoanalysis, and the origins of Jewish rites. Long left unnoticed, it challenges the current field of Jewish scholarship to rethink its methodology.

艺术史学家兼博物馆策展人巴特谢娃·戈德曼·艾达（Batsheva Goldman-Ida）介绍了吉日·莫迪凯·乔治·朗格（JiříMordechai Georgo Langer，1894年，布拉格，1943年，特拉维夫）撰写的文章：“关于犹太人门柱卷轴的功能”，首次以英语翻译发表，最初是为弗洛伊德杂志《 Imago》撰写的1928年。希伯来诗人和犹太研究老师兰格（Langer）是弗朗兹·卡夫卡（Franz Kafka）的朋友。兰格（Langer）从1913年至16年加入贝尔茨·哈西德主义，是将卡夫卡介绍给哈西德主义的人之一。兰格（Langer）在强迫神经病的背景下，提出了针对诸如Mezuzah和Phylacteries之类的犹太宗教文物的解释模型，并参考了土著人民的仪式和图腾理论。引言提供了有关作者的背景资料以及他的其他书籍和著作的细节，以及一个更好地欣赏他的诗歌和学术作品的框架。兰格寻求复兴“同志之爱”，如今其同种疗法的偏见引起了人们的关注。他关于“墨祖扎”的文章提出了一系列有关犹太人工制品，心理分析和犹太仪式起源的问题。左长不被注意，。