Mazel Tov to Emile Schrijver, the recipient of the 2021 Narkiss prize for excellence in the research of Jewish Art, presented by the Center for Jewish Art at Hebrew University

Emile Schrijver Photo: Monique Kooijmans/AEJM

Mazel tov to Dr. Emile Schrijver, the recipient of the 2021 Bezalel, Mordechai, and Nessa Narkiss prize for excellence in the research of Jewish Art,  presented by the Center for Jewish Art at Hebrew University!

Emile is the General Director Jewish Historical Museum and Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam (since 2015); Professor of Jewish Book History, University of Amsterdam; curator of the private Braginsky collection in Zurich; from 1986-2015 curator of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana.

He is also the chair of the Association of European Jewish Museums (and in addition he has just published a novel, a literary thriller titled “De Hillel Codex” — which we really hope comes out soon in English translation).

The award will be presented at an online ceremony November 29, at 19:00 CET — at which time Emile will give a lecture titled “Jewish art history and Jewish book history meet for the last time: The end of Hebrew manuscript decoration in Western Europe.”

You can attend the ceremony and talk via this Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/NarkissPrize

Click here to see the list of previous Narkiss prize winners, going back to 1988

Click here to read an article that Emile wrote for JHE in June 2020 about the post-pandemic future of European Jewish museumsShare


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About Julie Harris

Julie Harris is a specialist in the art of medieval Iberia. She has published on ivory carving, the fate of art and architecture during the Reconquest, and illuminated Hebrew manuscripts. She has participated in three of Therese Martin’s international research projects: “Reassessing the Role of Women as Makers” the “Treasury of San Isidoro in León,” and the ongoing “Medieval Iberian Treasury in Context: Collections, Connections, and Representations on the Peninsula and Beyond.” Her recent publications have appeared in Gesta, the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Medieval Encounters, Journal of Medieval History and Abstraction in Medieval Art: Beyond the Ornament, edited by Elina Gertsman (AUP, 2021). She was recently awarded a Center for Spain in America fellowship at the Clark Institute for her project on the decorative Carpet pages of Iberian Hebrew Bibles.