And the Scroll of Esther unrolls…
To mark the festival of Purim, Zsofia Buda discusses our recently digitised collection of Esther scrolls.
To mark the festival of Purim, Zsofia Buda discusses our recently digitised collection of Esther scrolls.
In the first part of this blog, I introduced the magical signs called charaktêres that you can encounter in Jewish magical manuscripts. OriginallyContinue Reading
“[To gain] favour and grace, write on your right hand these seals [ḥotamot], then wipe them with olive oil, andContinue Reading
A hundred more manuscripts from the John Rylands Library’s Hebrew Collection have just been published on the Manchester Digital Collections website.
‘The Other Within’ – The Hebrew and Jewish Collections of The John Rylands Library Monday 27–Wednesday 29 June 2016 at TheContinue Reading
On 30 April Professor Emile G. L. Schrijver, Professor of Jewish Book History at the University of Amsterdam and curator ofContinue Reading