Eva Frojmovic
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Where’s the provenance information for these medieval Hebrew Mahzor leaves? Where have they been during their time recycled as bindings? Business as usual?! moreshet-auctions.com/en/auction/1...
Lot 54 - Rare Museum Piece! Two Illuminated Sheets of Parchment from an Ashkenazic Machzor for Passover - ca. 14th Century! | מורשת מכירות פומביות
Two handwritten sheets of parchment from an Ashkenazic Machzor for Passover - scribal script on parchment - with illustrations of dragons and plant motifs - ...
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March 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Where’s the provenance information for these medieval Hebrew Mahzor leaves? Where have they been during their time recycled as bindings? Business as usual?! moreshet-auctions.com/en/auction/1...
I recently posted about our alumna Katya Oicherman’s research and practice. Here is a link: www.oicherman.art/k-art-index/...
Rendering of Writings — .⤺
2004 Jacquard weaving; silk, wool, wire, lurex An early exploration of the life and work of Yuhannah Dawud, a London based Jewish-Iranian collector of Persian manuscripts, who has destroyed his coll...
www.oicherman.art
March 30, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I recently posted about our alumna Katya Oicherman’s research and practice. Here is a link: www.oicherman.art/k-art-index/...
Went to a fascinating presentation by Ciara Shalome about her Mizrahistory instagram oral archive. That brought to mind an early Mizrahi resident of London: blog.nli.org.il/en/yohanan_b... Yuhannah Dawud.
The Mysterious Collector Who Founded Our Islamic Manuscript Collection
The Librarians | The National Library of Israel
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March 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Went to a fascinating presentation by Ciara Shalome about her Mizrahistory instagram oral archive. That brought to mind an early Mizrahi resident of London: blog.nli.org.il/en/yohanan_b... Yuhannah Dawud.
Has anyone been listening to the BBC Radio 4 series “Intrigue: Word of God”? Now JTS is exhibiting what purports to be the oldest Jewish codex, a liturgical booklet (quntres) from the 8th century.
March 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Has anyone been listening to the BBC Radio 4 series “Intrigue: Word of God”? Now JTS is exhibiting what purports to be the oldest Jewish codex, a liturgical booklet (quntres) from the 8th century.
My library participates in the Yerusha portal project. Holly Addie, the Yerusha research assistant, has uncovered this child refugee-turned-poet’s archive: leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/t...
The Yerusha Project: Inheritance and Heritage
Holly Addie, Collections Officer Yerusha Project, writes: As we mark 80 years since the end of the Second World War, it is more important than ever to reflect on the fragile yet enduring thre…
leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My library participates in the Yerusha portal project. Holly Addie, the Yerusha research assistant, has uncovered this child refugee-turned-poet’s archive: leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/t...
If you can get to Cambridge next week, don’t miss this English-language revival of Sholem Aleichem’s play Stempenyu: www.adctheatre.com/whats-on/pla...
Stempenyu!
A surrealist collage of Yiddish storytelling and music, Stempenyu connects us to an enchanting romantic tale of tradition and impermenance.
www.adctheatre.com
March 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If you can get to Cambridge next week, don’t miss this English-language revival of Sholem Aleichem’s play Stempenyu: www.adctheatre.com/whats-on/pla...
Looking forward to this talk next week. cjs.leeds.ac.uk/events/sovie...
Soviet-Born: The Afterlives of Migration in Jewish American Fiction | Centre for Jewish Studies
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March 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Looking forward to this talk next week. cjs.leeds.ac.uk/events/sovie...
Our library (university of Leeds) has digitised a very special Torah scroll - once confiscated by the Nazis from Brno: Very nice blog post by our Special collections
You can read it here: leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/d...
You can read it here: leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/d...
Digitising the Brno Torah Scroll
Karen and Jo, Digitisation Assistants, setting up the Brno Scroll on the PhaseOne copystand Karen Mee, Digitisation Assistant in the Special Collections Digitisation Studio team, writes about the c…
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January 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Our library (university of Leeds) has digitised a very special Torah scroll - once confiscated by the Nazis from Brno: Very nice blog post by our Special collections
You can read it here: leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/d...
You can read it here: leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2023/01/18/d...
Holocaust Memorial Day event at University of Leeds on Monday. Close up and personal. cjs.leeds.ac.uk/events/holoc...
Holocaust Memorial Day event | Centre for Jewish Studies
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January 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Holocaust Memorial Day event at University of Leeds on Monday. Close up and personal. cjs.leeds.ac.uk/events/holoc...
Reposted by Eva Frojmovic
To mark #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay, you can help build the world’s largest digital memorial to the victims and survivors of Nazism. We want to digitize 27,000 prisoner registration cards from Auschwitz & other concentration camps. Join in and help! everynamecounts.arolsen-archives.org/en/
January 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
To mark #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay, you can help build the world’s largest digital memorial to the victims and survivors of Nazism. We want to digitize 27,000 prisoner registration cards from Auschwitz & other concentration camps. Join in and help! everynamecounts.arolsen-archives.org/en/
A few Ukrainian Judaica that escaped the conflagration of Lviv‘s jewry when Ludwik Lille brought them to Paris. There’s a research project waiting…
January 11, 2025 at 8:24 PM
A few Ukrainian Judaica that escaped the conflagration of Lviv‘s jewry when Ludwik Lille brought them to Paris. There’s a research project waiting…
I managed to (all too briefly) see the Dybbuk exhibition at the MAHJ in Paris yesterday. I’ll post a few snaps with labels. Here Andrzej Wajda in a stage cemetery in 1988.
January 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I managed to (all too briefly) see the Dybbuk exhibition at the MAHJ in Paris yesterday. I’ll post a few snaps with labels. Here Andrzej Wajda in a stage cemetery in 1988.
Limmud group papercuts inspired by the legendary David Moss.
December 25, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Limmud group papercuts inspired by the legendary David Moss.
Almost too tired (and probably brewing the inevitable post-Limmud bug) to light Chanukah candles, but duly lit.
December 25, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Almost too tired (and probably brewing the inevitable post-Limmud bug) to light Chanukah candles, but duly lit.
Coexistence…at Limmud dinner.
December 24, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Coexistence…at Limmud dinner.
Listening to Rabbi Rose Prevezer talking about the Jewish-Muslim exhibition project www.laba.berlin/marayeh
About — LABA BERLIN
LABA Berlin is a Creative Fellowship Program centred around uplifting Jewish creative voices in Berlin. Hosted by the Fraenkelufer Synagogue.
www.laba.berlin
December 24, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Listening to Rabbi Rose Prevezer talking about the Jewish-Muslim exhibition project www.laba.berlin/marayeh
If you want Jewish artists to exist and thrive, buy their art. Just bought a tiny etching at Limmud.
December 24, 2024 at 4:34 PM
If you want Jewish artists to exist and thrive, buy their art. Just bought a tiny etching at Limmud.
Catching the tail end of Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz on four orthodox women rabbis - a tale of loneliness and isolation… or new models beyond power and authority towards advisory and empowering roles.
December 23, 2024 at 9:47 PM
Catching the tail end of Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz on four orthodox women rabbis - a tale of loneliness and isolation… or new models beyond power and authority towards advisory and empowering roles.
At Limmud, hearing from David Hochhauser about an exhibition I missed: www.artrabbit.com/events/peopl...
People of the Body: Contemporary Artist Explorations of Jewish Embodiment - Exhibition at Studio_Leigh in London
A group exhibition of artists exploring the theme of the Jewish body through their diverse set of practices and approaches.
www.artrabbit.com
December 23, 2024 at 5:59 PM
At Limmud, hearing from David Hochhauser about an exhibition I missed: www.artrabbit.com/events/peopl...
At Limmud, listening to Shirel Horovitz working with 13 artists creating sculptures on her head and going out on the town. Spot a cherry tomato on a skewer: www.shirelhorovitz.com/art-on-the-go
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December 23, 2024 at 5:54 PM
At Limmud, listening to Shirel Horovitz working with 13 artists creating sculptures on her head and going out on the town. Spot a cherry tomato on a skewer: www.shirelhorovitz.com/art-on-the-go
Limmud paper cuts that were made after Shabbat.
December 23, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Limmud paper cuts that were made after Shabbat.
Listening to the fascinating Julie Weitz exploring and transgressively transforming Jewish myths. The Golem, the Dybbuk.
December 23, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Listening to the fascinating Julie Weitz exploring and transgressively transforming Jewish myths. The Golem, the Dybbuk.
Today’s article www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d... focuses on the restitution of art works to Alfred Flechtheim’s heirs. I‘ll post more on the human cost in comments.
‘I am hitting a wall’: heir of Jewish art collector calls for restitution from Germany
Great-nephew of Alfred Flechtheim, who was forced to flee the Nazis, is frustrated at slow progress in returning works by Picasso and Klee
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:20 AM
Today’s article www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d... focuses on the restitution of art works to Alfred Flechtheim’s heirs. I‘ll post more on the human cost in comments.
The Medieval Women exhibition at the British Library is great, but why are apparently only women visiting it?!
December 17, 2024 at 8:48 AM
The Medieval Women exhibition at the British Library is great, but why are apparently only women visiting it?!
The 2024 Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture Dr František Šístek (Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) on 'Balkan Jews: Hidden History' was absolutely fascinating. I.a. He drew attention to the acts of compassion by Muslim neighbours during the Holocaust. A helpful reminder.
December 12, 2024 at 10:07 PM
The 2024 Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture Dr František Šístek (Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) on 'Balkan Jews: Hidden History' was absolutely fascinating. I.a. He drew attention to the acts of compassion by Muslim neighbours during the Holocaust. A helpful reminder.