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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 429

Jewish manuscripts

The Shem Tov Bible is due to be auctioned at Sotheby's in September 2024. (Courtesy of Sotheby's)
June 10, 2024, 10:10 am
Sotheby’s to auction Shem Tov Bible scribed by the medieval scholar
The 1312 manuscript will be displayed at the auction house this month and again in September before it is sold
By ToI Staff
An undated photo of part of the Nahum Collection of Yemenite Manuscripts, which comprises 60,000 Yemenite-Jewish manuscripts and fragments, and which the National Library of Israel said in January 2024 was set to become available to researchers and scholars. (NLI via JTA)
January 23, 2024, 10:17 pm
Major Judaica trove amassed by Yemenite Jewish butcher donated to National Library
Put together over 50 years by Yehuda Levi Nahum, collection includes translated Maimonides manuscripts and writings by key Yemenite Jewish writers
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Dr. Haim Neria with the longest 'ilan' scroll in the world at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem, June 11, 2023. (Uri Barkat)
June 12, 2023, 4:11 pm
Israel National Library unveils collection of 36 kabbalistic tree-like ‘maps of God’
At collection opening, NLI says it seeks to illuminate new genre of Jewish research through the ancient scrolls, shed light on mystical teachings for scholars and amateurs
By Charlie Summers
An Israeli rescue worker holds a scroll found in Antakya, Turkey on Feb. 16, 2023. (IDF Spokesperson)
March 16, 2023, 5:43 pm
How the removal of Jewish scripture from Turkey marred Israel’s rescue operation
ZAKA volunteers brought back and showcased 2 Scrolls of Esther said to be decades old, sparking frenzied allegations of ‘archaeological theft’ in the Turkish media
By Canaan Lidor
Norman Golb at work in his University of Chicago office. (Courtesy of the University of Chicago via JTA)
January 22, 2021, 1:41 pm
Norman Golb, pioneering Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish history scholar, dies at 92
Academic, who taught at the University of Chicago, upended study of the scrolls with his thesis that they were authored by multiple sects
By Gabe Friedman
Illustrative: In this March 11, 2017 picture, a man reads The Book of Esther. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
December 20, 2020, 6:20 pm
Cutting-edge scientific analysis reveals secrets of ancient Jewish Purim scroll
Romanian researchers use a battery of noninvasive techniques to gain insight on production of badly deteriorated manuscript containing opening chapters of Book of Esther
By Stuart Winer
Dr. Idan Perez holds the 'Siddur Catalunya,' a reconstruction of the prayer book used in parts of pre-Expulsion Catalonia, at Jerusalem's National Library, September 15, 2019. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
September 5, 2020, 1:39 am
Israeli scholar wins prize for recreating medieval Catalonian Jewish prayer book
Comparing 6 manuscripts in archives from St. Petersburg to Rome, National Library of Israel’s Idan Perez pieces together lost rites of vibrant community that’s all but disappeared
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Psalm 1 from the Zechariah Ben 'Anan Codex, rediscovered in 2017 by Israeli scholar Prof. Yoram Meital in a Cairo synagogue. (Yoram Meital)
February 24, 2020, 3:58 pm
Lost 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible found on dusty Cairo synagogue shelf
While attempting to document Egyptian synagogues, an Israeli historian stumbles upon a massive, well-preserved 616-page codex that was written in 1028
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Arabic petition with Hebrew writing from Cairo Geniza (Michelle Paymar)
May 16, 2019, 4:32 am
Documentary unravels history — and digital future — of mysterious Cairo Geniza
Film includes interviews with 40 experts who chart the strange discovery and continued scholarship of the mass of rare random documents that make for a rich ‘medieval Facebook’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
This photograph taken on February 22, 2018, shows visitors to The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in Sarajevo, which has revealed a new space intended for keeping one of museum's most valuable items, the famous Sarajevo Haggadah. (AFP/Elvis Barukcic)
March 6, 2018, 4:36 am
Ancient Haggadah symbolizing fate of Sarajevo Jews finally finds permanent home
Famous 14th-century holy book that survived the inquisition, Holocaust and Serbian shelling in 1990s put on display at Bosnia’s National Museum
By Rusmir SMAJILHODZIC
Yoel Finkelman
February 26, 2018, 2:01 pm
Yoel Finkelman
The illuminated gore of the Book of Esther
A 400-year-old scroll plays up the scroll’s violence, illustrating Vashti’s decapitation and Haman’s hanging
Depiction of the finding of Moses in the Nile by Pharaoh’s daughter. Hispano-Moresque Haggadah, Spain 1275-1324 (courtesy British Library)
November 21, 2017, 9:33 am
British Library publishes treasure trove of Hebrew manuscripts
New online collection is venerable library’s first bilingual online project, letting users search among 1,300 items in English and Hebrew
By Raphael Ahren
Seder Tephiloth mikol HaShanah [prayers for the whole year], according to the Ashkenazic rite with instructions in Yiddish. Printed entirely on vellum in Mantua by Venturino Roffi nello for Meir b. Ephraim and Yaakov b. Naphtali, 1558. (Kestenbaum & Company)
November 7, 2017, 10:12 pm
Who’s selling treasures from the Valmadonna Trust Library? Depends who you ask
Months after the finest and largest private collection of Jewish books was acquired for the National Library of Israel, some of its most valuable selections are up for auction
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Torah calligraphy by Hanna Klebansky. (AP/Bernat Armangue)
November 7, 2017, 8:53 am
Israel-Russia deal gives ancient books new life online
Guenzburg collection contains some 2,000 manuscripts and 14,000 books, some of them hundreds of years old
By AFP
A Passover Haggadah printed in Prague in 1556. (National Library)
January 18, 2017, 11:56 pm
National Library makes ‘historic’ acquisition of rare Hebrew texts
Valmadonna Trust Library’s manuscripts span the globe and a millenium, including a 1491 Bible; will be on display at institution’s new Jerusalem home
By Ilan Ben Zion
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