The Center for Jewish Art invites to the award ceremony of the Bezalel, Mordechai, and Nessia Narkiss Prize for excellence in the research of Jewish Art. This year the prize is awarded to Dr. Ilona Steimann. The recipient will give the lecture: “Masorah for Embroidery”: Micrography between Germany and France. The ceremony will take place online on Monday, December 30, 2024, at 20:00 Israel time – 7 pm CST -1 pm EST
Zoom link Narkiss Prize 2024
Am 17. Dezember 2024 finden die Veranstaltung “Erbe bewahren – Zukunft gestalten. Jüdische Friedhöfe in Nordrhein-Westfalen” im Beatrice-Struß Zentrum in Düsseldorf um 17:00 Uhr statt.
As part of a project to identify and write biographies of all of the Jews of the medieval Lincoln Jewry, Natasha Jenman, Luka Liu, and Josh Outhwaite have been working on records of Jewish property ownership in the city across the thirteenth century. This allows them to identify those individuals who will be prioritised and begin to construct a database of the Jews of medieval Lincoln.
In this talk, chaired by Dr Dean Irwin, they will explore the sources for the Lincoln Jewry, how they’ve used them, and visually demonstrate the distribution of Jews on the city. It will then trace the careers of some of the Jews we’ve already worked on.
Sotheby’s has its catalogue out for the upcoming Judaica sale on 18 December 2024. According to their announcement, “the sale is comprised almost exclusively of manuscripts from the Sassoon (lots 1-29) and Montefiore (32-121) collections, separated by two special additions from private sources (30-31). […] There will be an exhibition for several days (December 11-17) prior to the live sale itself (December 18). The exhibition is free and open to the public, and its hours are 10am-5pm each day, except Friday (10am-4pm), Shabbat (closed), and Sunday (1-5pm).”
5 December, 2024
18:00-19:00 GMT | 19:00-20:00 CEST | 10:00-11:00 PT | 13:00-14:00 ET | 20:00-21:00 Israel
Join this online event to honour and celebrate the legacy of Ilana Tahan, OBE—our much-loved colleague, and the international authority on Hebrew Manuscripts. As the Lead Curator for Hebrew and Christian Orient Collections, Ilana oversaw the British Library’s holdings of Armenian, Aramaic, Coptic, Hebrew, Samaritan, and Syriac manuscripts, and printed books. In this role, she was exceptionally active in reaching out to communities and scholars. She published many articles and chapters on the Hebrew collections, and undertook dozens of public workshops and presentations to bring the manuscripts closer to audiences. Ilana received her Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to scholarship in 2009.
This talk Yoav Meyrav is part of the Lecture Series Philosophy by Hand: The Agency of Manuscripts in Shaping Human Thought organised by the ERC Project HEPMASITE in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures at the University of Hamburg.
The Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv University, and the chair for Jewish culture in Islamic countries and for the study of the Genizah named after Yosef Vassil Meiser, are pleased to invite you to a symposium marking the publication of the book “The Golden Age of Karaism. A Hebrew Anthology of Karaite Literature from the Ninth to the Twelfth Centuries”.
The event will take place on Monday, November 11, 2024, in Room 496, Gilman Building, at Tel Aviv University and will also be recorded and broadcast live. The event will be held in Hebrew.
Watch now the recording of Anna Abulafia’s book launch Christian-Jewish Relations 1000-1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom (2nd edtion, Routledge, 2025).
The Center for Jewish Art “is offering a free introductory webinar on the Index of Jewish Art. This webinar is designed to help you effectively navigate the Index and utilize its diverse tools. It can also be integrated into course curricula and other group activities with students. For additional information, please reach out to Dr. Anna Berezin, Head of the Ritual and Ceremonial Section at the Center for Jewish Art, at anna.berezin@mail.huji.ac.il.”
Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages has announced “that applications for Oxford School of Rare Jewish Language’s classes beginning in Michaelmas Term 2024 are now open.”
