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).”
Category Archives: Exhibitions
Medieval Jewish Prayer Book on Display at Faith Museum
Read about medieval siddur that is now on public display at The Faith Museum.
Exhibition: ‘The Golden Age of the Jews of Al-Andalus’
Read Melonie Schmierer-Lee’s report about the exhibition ‘The Golden Age of the Jews of Al-Andalus’ in the Centro Sefarad-Israel in Madrid.
Exhibition and Catalogue The Lost Mirror. Jews and Conversos in Medieval Spain
Every image we create is a mirror that reflects a way of seeing. We look at the world and at others in relation to ourselves, through our own mentality and attitude. Using a broad selection of works, this exhibition recreates a medieval mirror that shows how Jews and conversos (converts to Christianity) were portrayed by Christians in Spain from 1285 to 1492.
Continue reading Exhibition and Catalogue The Lost Mirror. Jews and Conversos in Medieval SpainExhibition: La Edad de Oro de los judíos de Alandalús (The Golden Age of the Jews of Alandalus)
Centro Sefarad-Israel Madrid, September 15, 2023 – March 13, 2024
Collector’s Tour of “The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries – Featuring Highlights from the Hartman Family Collection of Manuscripts and Rare Books”
Monday, August 21, 2023, 2:00 pm – 2:45 pm
Join Collector Robert Hartman for a guided tour of “The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries,” illuminating the life and impact of the multifaceted luminary and great Jewish sage across continents and cultures through rare manuscripts and books. Exhibition highlights include manuscripts in Maimonides’s own handwriting, a carved 11th century door to the Torah ark from Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue, and beautifully illuminated medieval manuscripts.
Free admission but reservations are required. For reservations, please email RSVP@yum.cjh.org. Limited space.
Spain Virtual Jewish History Tour
You can explore here the the history of Spanish Jewry, which dates back at least two thousand years to when the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem, and brought Jews with them back to Europe.
Colloquium: Early Yiddish finds from Thuringia and Cologne
3 August, 4 p.m., Small Synagogue Erfurt
For the opening of the exhibition Vom “Kalten Keller” und falschen Versprechungen – Neue jiddische Funde aus dem Mittelalter, a colloquium will take place on 3 August from 4 p.m. in the Small Synagogue Erfurt.
New Exhibition on recent Yiddish Finds: Vom “Kalten Keller” und falschen Versprechungen – Neue jiddische Funde aus dem Mittelalter
Erfurt, Small Synagogue, 03 August 2023 – 13 October 2023
In recent years, a number of medieval objects with Yiddish texts or inscriptions have been newly discovered and examined. These include two finds from Thuringia: A Yiddish private letter of the 15thcentury from Mühlhausen and the only known medieval Yiddish building inscription from Erfurt so far. And some of the slate tablets from the former Jewish quarter in Cologne also show Yiddish inscriptions. These new medieval finds on Jewish everyday history are shown together here for the first time and placed in the history of the Yiddish language as well as its everyday writing.
Exhibition: The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries at Yeshiva University
See the legacy of 12th-century rabbi, doctor and thinker Moses Maimonides on display in NY.