Lot 54 - Rare Museum Piece! Two Illuminated Sheets of Parchment from an Ashkenazic Machzor for Passover - ca. 14th Century! | מורשת מכירות פומביות Two handwritten sheets of parchment from an Ashkenazic Machzor for Passover - scribal script on parchment - with illustrations of dragons and plant motifs - ...

Where’s the provenance information for these medieval Hebrew Mahzor leaves? Where have they been during their time recycled as bindings? Business as usual?! moreshet-auctions.com/en/auction/1...

Rendering of Writings — .⤺ 2004 Jacquard weaving; silk, wool, wire, lurex An early exploration of the life and work of Yuhannah Dawud, a London based Jewish-Iranian collector of Persian manuscripts, who has destroyed his coll...

I recently posted about our alumna Katya Oicherman’s research and practice. Here is a link: www.oicherman.art/k-art-index/...

Our alumna Katya Oicherman did some research and also practice research on him.

The Mysterious Collector Who Founded Our Islamic Manuscript Collection The Librarians | The National Library of Israel

Went to a fascinating presentation by Ciara Shalome about her Mizrahistory instagram oral archive. That brought to mind an early Mizrahi resident of London: blog.nli.org.il/en/yohanan_b... Yuhannah Dawud.

The world's oldest Jewish book is on display in New York City - Jewish Telegraphic Agency Dating to the year 700 CE, the Afghan Liturgical Quire is on view at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library's exhibit, "Sacred Words: Revealing the Earliest Hebrew Book."

www.jta.org/2025/03/19/n... For more info, see Menachem Wecker's essay www.jns.org/most-excitin... and, on the dodgy provenance (but totally misdating the ms), www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...

Has anyone been listening to the BBC Radio 4 series “Intrigue: Word of God”? Now JTS is exhibiting what purports to be the oldest Jewish codex, a liturgical booklet (quntres) from the 8th century.

The Yerusha Project: Inheritance and Heritage Holly Addie, Collections Officer Yerusha Project, writes:  As we mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War, it is more important than ever to reflect on the fragile yet enduring thre…

My library participates in the Yerusha portal project. Holly Addie, the Yerusha research assistant, has uncovered this child refugee-turned-poet’s archive: leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/t...

Stempenyu! A surrealist collage of Yiddish storytelling and music, Stempenyu connects us to an enchanting romantic tale of tradition and impermenance.

If you can get to Cambridge next week, don’t miss this English-language revival of Sholem Aleichem’s play Stempenyu: www.adctheatre.com/whats-on/pla...

But why would they do that?

Looking forward to this talk next week. cjs.leeds.ac.uk/events/sovie...

Digitising the Brno Torah Scroll Karen and Jo, Digitisation Assistants, setting up the Brno Scroll on the PhaseOne copystand Karen Mee, Digitisation Assistant in the Special Collections Digitisation Studio team, writes about the c…

Our library (university of Leeds) has digitised a very special Torah scroll - once confiscated by the Nazis from Brno: Very nice blog post by our Special collections
You can read it here: leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/d...

Holocaust Memorial Day event at University of Leeds on Monday. Close up and personal. cjs.leeds.ac.uk/events/holoc...

To mark #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay, you can help build the world’s largest digital memorial to the victims and survivors of Nazism. We want to digitize 27,000 prisoner registration cards from Auschwitz & other concentration camps. Join in and help! everynamecounts.arolsen-archives.org/en/

A few Ukrainian Judaica that escaped the conflagration of Lviv‘s jewry when Ludwik Lille brought them to Paris. There’s a research project waiting…

I managed to (all too briefly) see the Dybbuk exhibition at the MAHJ in Paris yesterday. I’ll post a few snaps with labels. Here Andrzej Wajda in a stage cemetery in 1988.

Limmud group papercuts inspired by the legendary David Moss.

Almost too tired (and probably brewing the inevitable post-Limmud bug) to light Chanukah candles, but duly lit.

Coexistence…at Limmud dinner.

About — LABA BERLIN LABA Berlin is a Creative Fellowship Program centred around uplifting Jewish creative voices in Berlin. Hosted by the Fraenkelufer Synagogue.

Listening to Rabbi Rose Prevezer talking about the Jewish-Muslim exhibition project www.laba.berlin/marayeh

If you want Jewish artists to exist and thrive, buy their art. Just bought a tiny etching at Limmud.

Catching the tail end of Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz on four orthodox women rabbis - a tale of loneliness and isolation… or new models beyond power and authority towards advisory and empowering roles.

People of the Body: Contemporary Artist Explorations of Jewish Embodiment - Exhibition at Studio_Leigh in London A group exhibition of artists exploring the theme of the Jewish body through their diverse set of practices and approaches.

At Limmud, hearing from David Hochhauser about an exhibition I missed: www.artrabbit.com/events/peopl...

At Limmud, listening to Shirel Horovitz working with 13 artists creating sculptures on her head and going out on the town. Spot a cherry tomato on a skewer: www.shirelhorovitz.com/art-on-the-go

Limmud paper cuts that were made after Shabbat.

Listening to the fascinating Julie Weitz exploring and transgressively transforming Jewish myths. The Golem, the Dybbuk.

www.stolpersteine-berlin.de/de/dusseldor... focuses on Mrs Flechtheim‘s fate. And her sisters?

‘I am hitting a wall’: heir of Jewish art collector calls for restitution from Germany Great-nephew of Alfred Flechtheim, who was forced to flee the Nazis, is frustrated at slow progress in returning works by Picasso and Klee

Today’s article www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d... focuses on the restitution of art works to Alfred Flechtheim’s heirs. I‘ll post more on the human cost in comments.

The Medieval Women exhibition at the British Library is great, but why are apparently only women visiting it?!

I assume the minority of Henry III refers to the Jews, though there must have been others?

The 2024 Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture Dr František Šístek (Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) on 'Balkan Jews: Hidden History' was absolutely fascinating. I.a. He drew attention to the acts of compassion by Muslim neighbours during the Holocaust. A helpful reminder.