"YOO-HOO,
Mrs. Goldberg"
Gertrude Berg
The Hebraic Section, African and
Middle Eastern Division
The Library of Congress
In Celebration of Jewish American
Heritage Month 2009 presents
a Film-in-Progress Screening,
a Lecture, and a Discussion
about Gertrude Berg by Director Aviva
Kempner
Free and Open to the Public
Wednesday, May 5th 2009
12 Noon – 1:00 PM
Pickford Theater
3rd Floor Madison Building
Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave. S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20540
For additional information contact:
Peggy Pearlstein (202) 707 – 3779 or ppea@loc.gov
Please allow time to clear security
Request ASL and ADA accommodation five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Early Modern Workshop 2009: "Reading Across Cultures: The Jewish Book and Its Readers in the Early Modern Period"
http://www.earlymodern.org/bulletin.php:
2009 Early Modern Workshop Announcement
The sixth Early Modern Workshop will focus on the topic of “Reading across Cultures: The Jewish Book and Its Readers in the Early Modern Period.” The workshop will be held at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University from Sunday, August 23, 2009 and to Tuesday, August 25, 2009. The keynote speaker will be Professor Ann Blair (Harvard University).
The proposed workshop aims to understand more deeply the developments in reading within Jewish society, as well as the impact the Jewish book may have had on culture in early modern Europe among both Jews and Christians. Recent studies, mostly on France, England, and Italy, have focused on the people behind “the book” – not only the author, but also those involved in book production and distribution, as well as the readers. As Guiglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier have argued, the text is fixed, whereas reading is ephemeral and creative. This workshop will seek to open a discussion of the culture of reading in Jewish society, as well as of the reading of Jewish books in Christian society, during a period of rapid cultural transformation. It will bring existing scholarship on the history of reading in Christian Europe to bear on the subject of Jewish reading. For example, scholars in this realm have highlighted the importance of medieval monastic culture for the development of silent reading, which in the early modern period became normalized within a broader reading community. What were the different or parallel developments within Jewish society, with its very different institutions and conventions of learning? How did print and access to books affect readers? Did it facilitate new reading communities? Did it modify existing reading traditions? And did it affect the ways of reading? How did authorities seek to control or prevent access to new texts, and how did these measures affect readers?
The proposed workshop will bring together scholars in European history who have done innovative work in book history and scholars of early modern Jewish culture who have explored the “Jewish book” and its reading in different environments. Given the dramatic recent developments on the book and reading within non-Jewish historiography, we would like to facilitate a workshop that would bring together scholars of Jewish and non-Jewish cultural history to explore this field. We hope that such an encounter will allow for a fruitful discussion, opening up some new questions for the broader field of the history of reading.
2009 Early Modern Workshop Announcement
The sixth Early Modern Workshop will focus on the topic of “Reading across Cultures: The Jewish Book and Its Readers in the Early Modern Period.” The workshop will be held at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University from Sunday, August 23, 2009 and to Tuesday, August 25, 2009. The keynote speaker will be Professor Ann Blair (Harvard University).
The proposed workshop aims to understand more deeply the developments in reading within Jewish society, as well as the impact the Jewish book may have had on culture in early modern Europe among both Jews and Christians. Recent studies, mostly on France, England, and Italy, have focused on the people behind “the book” – not only the author, but also those involved in book production and distribution, as well as the readers. As Guiglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier have argued, the text is fixed, whereas reading is ephemeral and creative. This workshop will seek to open a discussion of the culture of reading in Jewish society, as well as of the reading of Jewish books in Christian society, during a period of rapid cultural transformation. It will bring existing scholarship on the history of reading in Christian Europe to bear on the subject of Jewish reading. For example, scholars in this realm have highlighted the importance of medieval monastic culture for the development of silent reading, which in the early modern period became normalized within a broader reading community. What were the different or parallel developments within Jewish society, with its very different institutions and conventions of learning? How did print and access to books affect readers? Did it facilitate new reading communities? Did it modify existing reading traditions? And did it affect the ways of reading? How did authorities seek to control or prevent access to new texts, and how did these measures affect readers?
The proposed workshop will bring together scholars in European history who have done innovative work in book history and scholars of early modern Jewish culture who have explored the “Jewish book” and its reading in different environments. Given the dramatic recent developments on the book and reading within non-Jewish historiography, we would like to facilitate a workshop that would bring together scholars of Jewish and non-Jewish cultural history to explore this field. We hope that such an encounter will allow for a fruitful discussion, opening up some new questions for the broader field of the history of reading.
March 25: JTS Special Collections Pre-Passover Tour
A message from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary:
Please join JTS library staff on Wednesday, March 25, from 4-6pm on the 5th floor of the Library for an exploration of Passover through our holdings of manuscripts, rare books, broadsides and archival material, as well as our digital and video collections. The Library’s staff will be on hand to show and discuss with you a choice selection of items from our collection, which is recognized as the greatest Judaica library in the Western hemisphere. You will also have the opportunity to visit our state-of-the-art conservation lab. We look forward to seeing you on March 25th. If you would like to attend this event, please RSVP to Hector Guzman at heguzman@jtsa.edu.
We are located at 3080 Broadway and 122nd street, accessible by the 1 train and the M4 and M104 buses.
Please join JTS library staff on Wednesday, March 25, from 4-6pm on the 5th floor of the Library for an exploration of Passover through our holdings of manuscripts, rare books, broadsides and archival material, as well as our digital and video collections. The Library’s staff will be on hand to show and discuss with you a choice selection of items from our collection, which is recognized as the greatest Judaica library in the Western hemisphere. You will also have the opportunity to visit our state-of-the-art conservation lab. We look forward to seeing you on March 25th. If you would like to attend this event, please RSVP to Hector Guzman at heguzman@jtsa.edu.
We are located at 3080 Broadway and 122nd street, accessible by the 1 train and the M4 and M104 buses.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Congratulations to Katrin Kogman-Appel
At the 2009 conference of the American Historical Association, Katrina Kogman-Appel (Ben Gurion University) was awarded the Premio Del Rey Book Prize for her Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday (Penn State UP, 2006).
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Valmadonna Trust Library on exhibit in New York
David Wachtel writes:
The Valmadonna Trust is the finest private library of Hebrew books and manuscripts in the world. Now for the first time, the entire library of the Valmadonna Trust - some 13,000 printed books and manuscripts - will be on public exhibition,The exhibition will only be up through Feb 18. weekdays 10-5; closed on Saturday; and Sunday 1-5. More info is available at the following links.
AP article on Valmadonna Trust Library exhibit
16 page Sotheby's brochure on the Valmadonna Trust Library
Sotheby's Press Release on Valmadonna exhibit
The Valmadonna Trust is the finest private library of Hebrew books and manuscripts in the world. Now for the first time, the entire library of the Valmadonna Trust - some 13,000 printed books and manuscripts - will be on public exhibition,The exhibition will only be up through Feb 18. weekdays 10-5; closed on Saturday; and Sunday 1-5. More info is available at the following links.
AP article on Valmadonna Trust Library exhibit
16 page Sotheby's brochure on the Valmadonna Trust Library
Sotheby's Press Release on Valmadonna exhibit
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
New journal issues
Inaugural issue of Quntres: https://taljournal.jtsa.edu/index.php/quntres
A new issue of Alei Sefer: http://www.biupress.co.il/website/index.asp?id=732
At the roundtable/lunch discussion we had at AJS in December 2007, David Stern lamented the lack of journals devoted to the history of the Jewish book. The return of Alei Sefer and the emergence of Quntres are welcome developments.
A new issue of Alei Sefer: http://www.biupress.co.il/website/index.asp?id=732
At the roundtable/lunch discussion we had at AJS in December 2007, David Stern lamented the lack of journals devoted to the history of the Jewish book. The return of Alei Sefer and the emergence of Quntres are welcome developments.
Lecture at Harvard March 5: "Google and the 'Jewish' Question"
from Ann Blair's listserv that announces book history events in Boston and New England:
Thursday, 5 March, 4-6pm: Geoffrey Nunberg (School of Information,
Berkeley), 'Google and the "Jewish" Question: Conceiving the Space of
Discourse' Barker Ctr 133, Harvard. Sponsored by the History of the Book
Seminar of the Harvard Humanities Center.
for more information on the listserv, write to histbook@fas.harvard.edu
Thursday, 5 March, 4-6pm: Geoffrey Nunberg (School of Information,
Berkeley), 'Google and the "Jewish" Question: Conceiving the Space of
Discourse' Barker Ctr 133, Harvard. Sponsored by the History of the Book
Seminar of the Harvard Humanities Center.
for more information on the listserv, write to histbook@fas.harvard.edu
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