#JewishBooks #BookHistory hybrid 👇

Castilian, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew

Teaching my students #MedievalSpain through the quadrilingual epitaph of Fernando III (1199-1252), dedicated by his son, Alfonso X. It never ceases to illuminate.

Grateful to @homophonous.bsky.social for the translations and to the invaluable #PosenLibrary.

Our next speaker, this Thursday afternoon: Pavel Sladek, Charles University of Prague @charlesuni.cuni.cz @mbikoeln.bsky.social

A new lecture series at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies in Cologne, all welcome 👉🏼 #earlymodern #skystorians #jewishstudies @unicologne.bsky.social @mbikoeln.bsky.social

In honor of Monika Richarz, funding available to research Early Modern Jewry. Applications (in German or English) due April 30. @biajs.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social

Two-day (all day) Judaica workshop on the history of the Hebrew printing to be held at the Library of Congress on May 4-5. You can attend the workshop both in person or virtually. For more information please see the flyer
#HebrewBook @jewishlibraries.bsky.social @perurealfonso.bsky.social

Different types of "yokai" from a 19th century Japanese book. They are in all shapes and sizes, and some resemble real-world creatures, from frogs to dogs to insects. Others look uniquely monstrous. Some are just walking while others carry weapons.

A yellow demon with a hammer prepares to strike a bright red, one-eyed demon resembling a beetle. A green demon with a spear stands in front of them, watching the scene unfold.

On the left, a headless demon holds up a mirror for a demon applying makeup to its face. On the right, a demon with three eyes stands on its hands and sticks out its tongue at a bear-like demon with a human-looking face, also sticking out its tongue. Several creatures appear to peer at the scene through small slits drawn onto the paper, possibly meant to appear like cracks in reality.

Tag yourself. 👹 "Yokai" are a class of supernatural beings that have long been a favorite subject for Japanese artists and storytellers. These are from “Kyōsai’s illustrated story of 100 demons," a recently digitized volume from the Library's Asian Division.
See more. ⬇️ www.loc.gov/resource/asi...

Promo image for Pop Bibliography class

The April 15 @calrbs.bsky.social application deadline looms... make sure to get yours in while scholarships are still available! I'll be teaching Pop Bibliography, the study of how old books are portrayed in pop culture and what it means for the field of book history www.calrbs.org/english-pale...

Interested in studying the Holocaust?

Applications are now open for our MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage.

We're pleased to offer Sayers Family Scholarships available for 2026 entry.

www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/holo...

#Chancen | Frankel Institute Fellowship Rethinking Jewish Peoplehood: Towards a New Archive | 2027-2028 at the University of Michigan | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...
#fellowship

Deadline for applications: November 2, 2026

Ashkenazi Medical professionals in the Arab Middle East Rethinking the stories we know. Please join us for a talk with Yair Wallach for the Annual Howard Rein Memorial Lecture

#HybridEvent | Annual Howard Rein Memorial Lecture - Yair Wallach on Ashkenazi Medical professionals in the Arab Middle East in the 19th and even 20th century questioning the collective memory | Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ashkenazi-...

May 5, 2026 | 18:00 BST | Hybrid

National Endowment for the Humanities - Wikipedia

We note that the National Endowment for the Humanities wikipedia page is in dire need of...✨updating.✨

To reflect the mass staff firings, grant terminations, firings of Council members, & #DOGE #DEI dealings of the past year.

Anyone care to take on these updates for us? 🙏 Thanks. #NEH

The Chinese Matzah Campaign of 1905 How Chabad rallied to provide Jewish troops with matzah and kosher meat during the Russo-Japanese War

The Chinese Matzah Campaign of 1905

How Chabad rallied to provide Jewish troops with matzah and kosher meat during the Russo-Japanese War
elirubin.substack.com/p/the-chines...

#Webinar | Yom Hashoah 2026: A Duty to Remember with Eva Brettler, Belsen concentration camp survivor | April 14, 2026 06:00 PM CET

#NieWiederIstJetzt #Holocaust #Survivor

Registrate on: tourouniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Case for Handwritten Letters

The Case for Handwritten Letters www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...

I’m leading this London Rare Book School course on the history of collecting. Ideal for anyone interested in studying the history of libraries and how and why books have survived. We’ll be looking at why special collections are special. 22-26 June. #bookHistory👇📚📖

ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online This is the earliest printed Haggadah, the only copy in the world. Printed in square, unpunctuated letters only 12 years prior to the exile of the Jews from Spain, this Haggadah is unique evidence of ...

Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online mjsnow.hypotheses.org/3171

Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online This is the earliest printed Haggadah, the only copy in the world. Printed in square, unpunctuated letters only 12 years prior to the exile of the Jews from Spain, this Haggadah is unique evidence of ...

Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online mjsnow.hypotheses.org/3171

Looking forward to the publication release.

We're forgetting the lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire States have been gradually rolling back the protections that activists like Pauline Newman and Clara Lemlich bravely fought for

Today is the 115th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire: 148 workers killed, most of them young Jewish immigrant women. Survivors like Pauline Newman fought for child labor protections. The @forward.com asks what it means that those protections are eroding again. forward.com/opinion/8095...

The Sephardic Bible Bookcraft: Codicology, Layout, and Contents in Two Manuscripts YouTube video by Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Watch now! Javier del Barco (Complutense University of Madrid) explores the unique features of two manuscripts housed at the Library at the Katz Center that point to the Sephardic Hebrew Bible as a distinct and coherent book category. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ar...
@sims-mss.bsky.social

The History of the Workmen’s Circle in Montreal די געשיכטע פֿון אַרבעטער־רינג אין מאָנטרעאָל

free online event in Yiddish, on March 29, about the history of the now-defunct Montreal Workers Circle branch

Deadline extended to April 1!
Spring break is a perfect time to finish that essay...

History Notes

March 19, 1918: US President Woodrow Wilson signs the Standard Time Act, which establishes Daylight Saving Time in the United States and gives the federal government oversight of the country's time zones.

Graphic reads "Be the next Innovator in Residence"

The Library is looking for its next Innovator in Residence!

Through April 10, the Library invites technologists, artists and other creative visionaries to propose imaginative proof of concepts designed to help the public connect with digital Library materials. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

Are you interested in applying for our MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage?

We're running a webinar in April to share information about the course, scholarships, and to answer your questions.

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

call for papers for Yiddish and Hebrew issue, MLN

Scholars of Jewish literature, thought, and culture: Please share and consider submitting to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social

Is there any Yiddish blogs or other small frequent things to read? I read the Yiddish Forwards for daily practice but I would like to add more.

Fellowship The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, curated by leading Jewish studies scholars, is an anthology of texts and images containing thousands of sources—and growing.

Posen library fellowships! www.posenlibrary.com/fellowship?f...