Congratulations to Columbia Professor Elisheva Carlebach on the publication of her newest book, Palaces of Time, by Harvard University Press. From the description: "From one of the leading historians of the Jewish past comes a stunning look into a previously unexamined dimension of Jewish life and culture: the calendar. In the late sixteenth century, Pope […]
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Jewish Languages in the Age of the Internet
Jewish Studies resources can be found all over! As noted on H-Judaic this morning, the latest edition of Language and Communication (31:2) is a special issue dedicated to "Jewish Languages in the Age of the Internet." For access to the electronic version of Language and Communication, see the CLIO record here. Be sure to click on […]
Columbia Professor Yinon Cohen in Israel Affairs
The latest issue of Israel Affairs (v.17, no. 1) includes an article co-authored by Columbia University Professor Yinon Cohen entitled: "Who went where? Jewish immigration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel, the USA and Germany, 1990-2000" (p.7). Columbia subscribes to Israel Affairs both in print (call number: DS101 .I873, in Lehman Library) and electronically. […]
‘Ot Ha-berit
In 1824, a mohel and doctor named Yeḥezḳel Trish living in Lipník nad Bečvo (in the Czech Republic) received a gift from a man named Yonah Ḳaṿo. It was a small manuscript book, which contained prayers and exquisitely detailed illustrations relating to his craft, that of circumcision. Two of the spreads are shown here. The […]
The Jewish Book: Past, Present, Future (Symposium at CJH)
What makes a Jewish book? Who are the People of the Book? How have Jewish books changed with changes in technology? The "history of the book" is a lively field of historical scholarship that looks at authorship, publication, and dissemination of texts of all kinds as windows onto culture and society in different […]
Nuremberg Trials Project
"The Harvard Law School Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT)." The Law Library has undertaken a tremendous […]
Princeton Geniza Project
Are you interested the wonderful world of the Cairo Geniza, but are overwhelmed by the amount of fragments out there? Wouldn’t you love a tool that just let you search the full-text of over 4000 documents from the Geniza (which you can then view on The Friedberg Genizah Project – but more about that at […]
Welcome!
Welcome to the new Jewish Studies @CUL blog! Here we aim to update the Jewish Studies communities about updates in the library to the Jewish Studies Collection, as well as Jewish book-related events in the NYC area. […]