Judaica @Columbia, provenance @Footprints_Heb, #dhjewish, Jewish #bookhistory, #judaicalibrarianship #codexconquestJE @CULhebrewmss. Profile by @ilanblock
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Interested in my library (Norman E. Alexander Library for Jewish Studies @Columbia)? Follow it on Facebook: facebook.com/Norman-E-Alexan…
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📮 Pink postal coupons – for Holocaust survivors often the only way to send signs of life and ask who survived. Found in Swedish archives. 🕯️Got Yiddish docs from Sweden? Email to:
📩 [email protected] Thanks! 🌹
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#Yiddish #Archive
New post - lots of acquisitions, from the very old to the very new: blogs.library.columbia.edu/j…
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Rare example of a medieval scribe practicing Latin, Greek, and Hebrew on the same fragment.
Any medievalists out there who can shed light on the style of the Latin characters?
geniza.princeton.edu/en/docu…
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ex libris for Jaromir Mrázek by Jaroslav Dobrovolský, circa 1930.
A Czech artist, teacher, and antifascist murdered in Mauthausen concentration camp in 1942, he was known for ex libris plates, many of which involved scenes of nature.
#trees #forests #Czech #Czechoslovakia
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ALT black and white woodcut a mountain slope dotted with coniferous trees extends downward from right to left at left, a human figure sits beneath one of the trees, chin on hand, contemplating the beauty of nature at bottom in angular stylized letters: EX LIBRIS * JAROSLAV MRA'ZEK signed by the artist--JD--in the lower right of the block
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The bravery of this generation of Soviet Jews is almost impossible for us to fully grasp, and they're now dying out xitter.cf/AlexRif3/status/211208…
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A techinah for a woman to say at Shabbos candle lighting "special for America", praying to not have to break Shabbos in order to survive.
"...send us our livelihood [...] such that we needn't, God forbid... turn Shabbos into a weekday in order to make a living"
I blame @eddyportnoy for the upcoming thread. Early 20th century Jewish book illustration is literally a lost art of breathtaking scope and variety. Here goes:
And while we're on the topic of Szyk, I'll just drop this paragraph from his Canterbury Tales. I'm sure it was a coincidence that this artistic fighter of antisemitism did not include The Prioress.
