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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · 9h

A settlement between HUC and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost ends a years-long dispute over the fate of the school's rare books collection www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

Hebrew Union College agrees not to sell its rare books without notifying attorney general

A settlement between HUC and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost ends a years-long dispute over the fate of the school's rare books collection

www.cincinnati.com

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Penn Arts & Sciences @sas.upenn.edu · 22d

A $21M gift from the estate of alumna Louise A. Strauss will provide major support to the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, as well as the Rare Judaica Acquisitions Endowment Fund in Penn Libraries. Read the full announcement: https://bit.ly/4pqTtOL @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social

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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · 1d

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 1d

Job: Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Binghamton University.
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/19032

Job: Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Binghamton University

Deadline: Review of applications will begin November 14, 2025. The Judaic Studies Department and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University invite applications for a tenu...

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 1d

Job: Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Binghamton University.
#jewishstudies
mjsnow.hypotheses.org/19032

Job: Assistant Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Binghamton University

Deadline: Review of applications will begin November 14, 2025. The Judaic Studies Department and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Binghamton University invite applications for a tenu...

mjsnow.hypotheses.org

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Haida Princess (Lori) @haidaprincess.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a list of #MentalHealth 📞resources in 🇨🇦#Canada

Suicide Crisis Helpline 9-8-8

Crisis Services #Canada 1-833-456-4566

Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868

First Nations - Hope for Wellness 1‑855‑242-3310

National IRS 1-866-925-4419

LGBTQ National Hotline 1-888-843-4564

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 3d

Just noticed that my @sims-mss.bsky.social 2024 Plenary is online, in which I explore the #MedievalManuscript #OpenAccess ecosystem, including @iiif.bsky.social, @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, Digital Mappa, and the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDwQ...

17th Annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: Nov. 21, 2024, Keynote

YouTube video by SchoenbergInstitute

www.youtube.com

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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations 🎉 👏

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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · 4d

Just ordered my copy. Looking forward to reading it.

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Alfonso de Zamora @perurealfonso.bsky.social · 4d

"Jewish women were increasingly active participants in their communities, managing homes & professions, leading institutions & sororities, & crafting objects & texts of exquisite beauty", forthcoming by D. Kaplan & E. Carlebach press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... h/t @mmargolis.bsky.social

A Woman Is Responsible for Everything

A groundbreaking look at the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communal life

press.princeton.edu

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 10d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Michelle Margolis @mmargolis.bsky.social · 13d

We have a date! This year's Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections will be on December 1. "Beyond the Text: Reading Jewish History Between the Words" with Prof. Edward Fram, Prof Elisheva Carlebach, and Dr. Eugene Matanky. Register here! 📚📜
columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

This year's annual NEA Celebration of Collections has an early modern focus, where three scholars will discuss their research on what we find in books when we look beyond the actual texts - at annotat...

columbiauniversity.zoom.us

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Miriam Udel @miriamudel.bsky.social · 6d

Please join me for a book event in your city or an online mini-course from anywhere!

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 8d

Wishing a peaceful and introspective Yom Kippur to all who participate, and a very easy fast.

(the image is the opening of the Kol Nidre prayer on folio 74v of the fourteenth-century Leipzig Mahzor, vol. 1)

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Adam Smyth @adamwithbooks.bsky.social · 10d

🎥 📚

I'm making a short film composed of lots of 20-second clips of different people reading the same line of text: a series of brief instalments.

If you would like to be involved - it will be fun, and maybe interesting, and easy (you film on a phone) - please DM me (and/or repost).

Thank you!

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Jüdische Studien @juedstudien.bsky.social · 11d

#NewOpening | On September 20, 2025 The Lost Shtetl Museum in Šeduva welcomes visitors to discover the history of Jewish life in Lithuania | Details:

Lost Shtetl Museum | jewish history museum lithuania

#shtetl #jewsineasterneurope #lithuania #museum

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Sarah Werner @wynkenhimself.bsky.social · 10d

I live for a good bibliographical mystery so I really am invested in you sending good submissions for this panel! The @bibsocamer.bsky.social Annual Meeting is always a delight--please come delight us with your work!!

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 11d

Bibliographical Mysteries! "Share your successes and failures, cold cases, breakthroughs, speculative practices, novel uses of technology, collaborative momentum, and other stories."
CFP *by 10.7* for a special session of @bibsocamer.bsky.social annual meeting. bibsocamer.org/news/cfp-bsa26

The Bibliographical Society of America

The website of the Bibliographical Society of America, a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization and learned Society devoted to the study of the material text.

bibsocamer.org

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Michelle Margolis @mmargolis.bsky.social · Sep 8

I mean, it really will be an exhibit for the ages: www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
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Centuries of Jewish Literary Creativity Celebrated at the Grolier

A new exhibition at The Grolier Club opening later this month in New York will feature manuscripts from The Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS).

www.finebooksmagazine.com

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Michelle Margolis @mmargolis.bsky.social · 14d

Lovely interview with my colleague @jeremiah-mercurio.bsky.social on Linguistics in Columbia Libraries; I see a shoutout to the #LCAAJ (an incredibly rich Yiddish linguistics project that began in the 1950s...)! blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/linguistics/...

Spotlight: Meet Librarian Jeremiah Mercurio – CLAUSE

blogs.cuit.columbia.edu

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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · 14d

That is amazing!! Quite the honor. You give great tours.

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Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu · 14d

New on the blog, we've got a round-up of stories about Shakespeare in the news this month—a September issue of our own—drawn from the world of art, literature, and sandwiches. 🥪 www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Shakespeare in the news / September 2025 | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

www.folger.edu

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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · 14d

Enjoy!! Perhaps, if time permits, will you go to the Grolier?

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medievalJewishStudiesNow! @med-ljewishstnow.bsky.social · 14d

From all of us at medievalJewishStudiesNow!
L'shana tova ! לְשָׁנָה טוֹבָה
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Kalaniot Books @kalaniotbooks.bsky.social · 17d

L’shana tova to all our Kalaniot family and friends! Illustration by Zeynep Ozatalay from A Turkish Rosh Hashanah by Etan Basseri

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Vanessa Freedman @vrfreedman.bsky.social · 18d

Wishing all those celebrating Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, a shanah tovah u-metukah

a blue drawing of a wave with the words happy new year

Alt: A blue shofar (ram’s horn) with Happy New Year above

media.tenor.com

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Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 20d

Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on 22nd September 2025. Here we see a man blowing a shofar.
#RoshHashana
BL Or 10641; Maḥzor for the entire year, Western-Ashkenazi rite (Worms); 1650 CE-1651 CE; Germany (Worms); f.22v

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