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Posts about the Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection in UCL Libraries, including news and info about print and electronic resources, useful websites, etc. https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish-studies
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Solomon Schechter was born #OnThisDay in 1847. He was professor of Hebrew at @uclhjs.bsky.social and lecturer in Talmudics at Cambridge. Here's his application for the Cambridge post, apparently published in a pamphlet @uclspeccoll.bsky.social SR MOCATTA PAMPHLETS BOX 4 buff.ly/NBv06L6
Title page of the pamphlet. Text reads Application and testimonials for the post of lecturer in Talmudic in the University of Cambridge, by Solomon Schechter. 1890. Part of the title is in Gothic script
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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This week's #NewBooks : Hebrew linguistics, Hebrew and Yiddish poetry, and Israel/Palestine library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot of the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew & Jewish Studies subject guide, featuring the cover of Hebrew philology, Hebrew Lexicography by David J. A. Clines
December 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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This week's #NewBooks : Israel/Palestine, Hasidism, and the London Yiddish press library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot from the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew & Jewish Studies subject guide, featuring the cover of East End Jews: sketches from the London Yiddish Press, translated by Vivi Lachs and Barry Smerin, with introductions by Vivi Lachs
November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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This week's #NewBooks including the Yiddish Sherlock Holmes library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot of the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew & Jewish Studies subject guide, featuring the cover of Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: the Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, written by Jonas Kreppel, translated by Mikhl Yashinsky
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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This week's #NewBooks : Eli Sharabi's memoir, Yiddish and Polish literature, a companion to Jewish Studies, and more library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
A screenshot of the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies library subject guide, featuring the cover of The Princeton companion to Jewish studies, edited by Leora Batnitzky, Eve Krakowski & Steven Weitzman.
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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This week's #NewBooks : Maimonides, Holocaust, rabbinic literature and more library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot of the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew & Jewish Studies subject guide, featuring the cover of Moses Maimondes: a very short intorudction by Ross Brann
November 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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This week's #NewBooks : American Jewish and Yiddish literature library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot of the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew & Jewish Studies subject guide, featuring the cover of My childhood years: a memoir by Peretz Hirshbein, translated by Leonard Wolf.
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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This week's #NewBooks : Yiddish children's literature, antisemitism, and stories by Cynthia Ozick library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot of the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew & Jewish Studies subject guide, featuring the cover of Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children's Literature by Miriam Udel
October 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Happy Bandi Chhor Divas to everyone celebrating!
UCL logo with text 'Happy Bandi Chhor Divas' next to an illustration of a lit candle in a simple holder on a purple background.
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Happy Diwali to everyone celebrating!
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October 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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This week's #NewBooks : Syriac grammar and stories of Ashkenazi and Mizrachi Jews library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot from the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew and Jewish Studies subject guide, featuring the cover of As the story goes: funny, strange, and serious stories of Yiddishland's Jews, compiled by Mordekhai Lipson; translated and edited by Jonathan Boyarin and Jonah Sampson Boyarin.
October 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Wishing all those celebrating the Jewish festival of Sukkot over the next week a hag sameah (Image: By Gilabrand - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, buff.ly/2isR5G8 )
A lulav and etrog together with a silver etrog case
October 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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This week's #NewBooks: Hannah Arendt, medieval Castile, and early modern Europe library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot of the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew & Jewish Studies subject guide, featuring the cover of Light is sown: the cultivation of Kabbalah in medieval Castile by Avishai Bar-Asher and Jeremy Phillip Brown
October 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Wishing all those observing Yom Kippur an easy and meaningful fast and gmar hatimah tovah. Image: part of the Yom Kippur Neilah amidah from a sixteenth century Italian manuscript prayer book @uclspeccoll.bsky.social MS MOCATTA/2
A page of Hebrew manuscript text with the words va-hatom and ve-nehatem enlarged
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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This week's #NewBooks: Yiddish New York and Italian Jews library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot of the Latest titles added to the collection section of the UCL Library Hebrew and Jewish Studies subject guide, featuring the cover of The Tourist's Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City by Henry H. Sapoznik
September 26, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Wishing everyone celebrating the Jewish New Year a shanah tovah u-metukah
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September 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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UCL staff and students now have access to Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers, 1870-2021 from the @eastview.bsky.social Global Press Archive. These include several Arabic newspapers from Israel/Palestine blogs.ucl.ac.uk/library-ejou...
Screenshot of the Middle Eastern and North African Newspapers collection in Global Press Archive
September 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Check out this week's #NewBooks library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewis...
Screenshot from the UCL Hebrew & Jewish subject guide, featuring the cover of Olga Lengyel, Auschwitz Survivor: Interdisciplinary Explorations, by Peter Davies, Hannah Holtschneider, Sheila E. Jelen, Christoph Thonfeld.
September 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM