Wonderful post by Rebecca Jefferson on Haggadot based on the collection at the Price Library at UFL: theconversation.com/from-sumptuous…

A special treat for Passover, this lavishly illustrated Haggadah with texts in Hebrew and Aramaic, a Hebrew commentary, and a Ladino translation, was published nearly 400 years ago in Venice.
The vivid colours were added later on.

Really looking forward to this lecture by Kristina Richardson online on 9 May 👇 #BookHistory #RomaPeople #RomaHistory

Everything's on fire, but also, I launched a mini-exhibit on recent conservation Columbia Libraries yesterday!
blogs.cul.columbia.edu/jewishstudiesa…

This image comes from a late 19th century Marathi-Hebrew Haggadah printed in Pune, #India by the Ilkar brothers.

Pune is home to the Ohel David synagogue which was built in 1867, just a few years before this #Haggadah was printed!

See it here: tinyurl.com/3w4xvmuv

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I mean, is it too much to ask for people to actually think critically about viral anything on social media?

Yes, I know it is. Sigh.

The Rabbi Sacks Legacy and the National Library of Israel are delighted to announce a significant milestone for both institutions as the personal archive of the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks arrives at the Library in Jerusalem.

Some 50 cartons containing archival material,

AJL's 2024 Judaica Reference and Bibliography Awards

Reference: Jewish Documentary Sources in Lviv Archives: A Guide. Edited and compiled by Alexander Ivanov and David E. Fishman. Wrocław University Press; Dukh i Litera Publishing House.

Press release: buff.ly/43ZOD0K

AJL's 2024 Judaica Reference and Bibliography Awards

Bibliography: Fables in Jewish Culture: The Jon A. Lindseth Collection. Edited by Emile Schrijver and Lies Meiboom. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Library, 2023.

Press release: buff.ly/43ZOD0K

For those who 'discover' something brought to them on the polished table of an air-conditioned research room... 😏 #archives #labor

Come work with us on thousands of Hebrew script manuscripts in a highly interdisciplinary project.

I know I am late to the game but if you are interested in the modern history of Jews in and of the Islamic world I highly suggest you listen to the fantastic Nightingale of Iran podcast - pod.link/1705959955

Seems like a good day to share a beautiful prayerbook for Minha and Arvit now in our collection. (Iraq, 1897)
General MS 334: clio.columbia.edu/catalog/178853…
[Catalog record has some transliteration errors which have already been corrected and will show tomorrow.]

I'm really enjoying this. If you like SeforimChatter, you might like this as well.

Still obsessing about the Ten Plagues in medieval Haggadot. Here's the Fourth Plague in the Sarajevo Haggadah. These animals aren't just wild, they are WILD!

The most moving event! A big collection of documents looted from the Lublin Yeshiva by a German soldier in 1940, brought back to Lublin by his granddaughter yesterday and officialy returned in the Yeshiva’s synagogue.

More Indiana Catholics than Jews

#TagderProvenienzforschung
Provenienzforschung in Bibliotheken – Fallbeispiele aus dem Jüdischen Museum Augsburg Schwaben
Heute, 18:30, Jüdisches Museum Augsburg Schwaben
arbeitskreis-provenienzforschung.org/tdp/juedisches…

CAS is cosponsoring “Letters That Link Us: Histories and Mysteries of Hebrew Type”, running tomorrow and Thursday, April 10-11. More information at hebrewtypesymposium.com