OCt 29: Emile Schrijver speaking at Columbia.

Columbia University Seminar on Religion and Writing
Tuesday, 29 October 2013
411 Fayerweather Hall, 6.00-8.00 pm

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGES OF PLACE AND TIME

Emile Schrijver, Professor of Jewish Book History at the Universiteit van Amsterdam:
Natural and Unnatural Boundaries of the Jewish Book

An abstract of the talk is available on our website:
https://researchblogs.cul.columbia.edu/islamicbooks/religionwriting/

Professor Schrijver's presentation will begin at 6.00 pm sharp. Dinner will be held at Community Food and Juice after the presentation around 8.00pm. If you would like to join us for dinner, please RSVP to the seminar's rapporteur Hannah Barker (hkb2106@columbia.edu) no later than Thursday, October 24.

Fayerweather Hall is located on the northeast side of campus near Amsterdam Avenue. A map is available here:
http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/fayerweather.html

Columbia University encourages persons with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities.  University Seminar participants with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations or who have questions about physical access may contact the Office of Disability Services at 212-854-2388 or disability@columbia.edu. Disability accommodations, including sign-language interpreters, are available on request.  Requests for accommodations should be made two weeks in advance.  On campus, Seminar participants with disabilities should alert a Public Safety Officer that they need assistance accessing campus.

We look forward to seeing you at the October meeting of the Seminar on Religion and Writing.

Mahnaz Moazami & Dagmar Riedel, co-chairs
Hannah Barker, rapporteur

A new rare book room at the Center for Jewish History

Read about it in the New York Times: 
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/a-new-home-for-rare-books-at-center-for-jewish-history/?_r=3

Book history at the World Congress of Jewish Studies

Lots of sessions.  Here are the ones I've noticed so far:

UPDATES BELOW.  MAKE SURE TO CHECK THE FINAL PROGRAM FOR THE MOST UP TO DATE INFORMATION

Monday July 29

5:30-7:30 pm JEWISH BOOK CULTURE 1

Tuesday July 30

9-11 am:  JEWISH BOOK CULTURE 2

11:30 am-1:30 pm:  JEWISH BOOK CULTURE 3

3-5 pm:  Functions of Reading Yiddish through the Ages: Manuscripts, Books, and Newspapers

Wednesday July 31

3-5 pm:  Printing, Censoring, Collecting: Hebrew Books in Hapsburg Lands

5:30-7:30 pm:  Roundtable: Jewish Book Trade and book Circulation: Defining a Research Agenda

Thursday August 1

3-5  pm:  the Library of the Haskalah in the 18^th Century:  Cultural Encounters and Confrontations

 

Full searchable program at:  http://www.jewish-studies.org/?cmd=lectures

 

 

Braginsky Collection for your IPAD

Emile Schrijver wrote to announce "the first iPad app dedicated exclusively to Hebrew manuscripts and printed books:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/braginsky-collection/id654976542?mt=8"

 

Kaufman Collection of Jewish Cookbooks at George Washington University Library

http://library.gwu.edu/spotlights/posts/collection-jewish-cookbooks-donated-sheilah-kaufman

Upcoming Conference in Venice, 9-12 June 2013

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Lawrence Roth "Unpacking My Father's Bookstore"

Lecture at the University of Michigan.  Now available for viewing on-line:

Unpacking My Father's Bookstore