Here's the full list of 2026 National Recording Registry inductees!
Haim Gottschalk
@hgot.bsky.social
I am a Hebraica-Judaica Cataloging Librarian, cataloging across the board in subjects and classification, ranging from 15th cen. through newest publications.
For those who missed it in person, here is the video from the Jews and 1776 talk at the Library of Congress: www.loc.gov/item/video-1... #nationaljewishheritagemonth #America250
1776: Jews and the American Revolution with Laura Arnold Leibman
Join us for a lecture by award-winning historian and author Professor Laura Arnold Leibman on how Jews shaped the American Revolution and how the Revolution remapped American Jewish life.Although nume...
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#OnlineTalk | America's Jewish Questions at 250 Years - Lana Dee Povitz | On the Importance of Coalitional Feminism to American Jewish History | @Penn @katz | Details: katz.sas.upenn.edu/events/impor... May 12, 2026 | 06:00 PM CET | On Zoom
On the Importance of Coalitional Feminism to American Jewish History
Lana Dee Povitz recalls how feminist Jews shaped history of the American Jewish left
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#Ressource | Call for proposals for Body and Mind, the tenth volume of the Contemporary Studies on Language and Literature series | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2026
The conservation team do awesome magic in preserving and conserving library materials
Library of Congress@librarycongress.bsky.social · 3mo agoFor #PreservationWeek, we are bringing you a behind the scenes look at what some of our conservation experts do on a daily basis to preserve the materials housed at the Library of Congress!
For #PreservationWeek, we are bringing you a behind the scenes look at what some of our conservation experts do on a daily basis to preserve the materials housed at the Library of Congress!
REMINDER: The deadline for submissions for the Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film is coming up on May 3!
Library of Congress@librarycongress.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEWS: The Library of Congress, The Better Angels Society, Ken Burns and the Crimson Lion/Lavine Family Foundation are accepting entries for the eighth annual Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film through May 3. newsroom.loc.gov/news/submiss...
UK Yiddish Summer School, 17-21 Aug 2026 N. London #yiddish #klezmer #yiddishhistory #yiddishsong #yiddishliterature https://tinyurl.com/yiddishsummer
Summer Yiddish Festival - ZumerFest - London 2026
Dive into the rich world of Yiddish culture with fun language classes, klezmer workshops, Yiddish song, films, dance, literature and more.
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📚📖📚📖This Wednesday at the National Library in Jerusalem, prof. Maren Niehoff and myself will be in conversation about the libraries of Alexandria and Caesarea. If you want to join: www.nli.org.il/he/visit/eve... @romanaerc.bsky.social
#JewishBooks #BookHistory hybrid 👇
Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · 4mo agoTwo-day (all day) Judaica workshop on the history of the Hebrew printing to be held at the Library of Congress on May 4-5. You can attend the workshop both in person or virtually. For more information please see the flyer #HebrewBook @jewishlibraries.bsky.social @perurealfonso.bsky.social
Castilian, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew Teaching my students #MedievalSpain through the quadrilingual epitaph of Fernando III (1199-1252), dedicated by his son, Alfonso X. It never ceases to illuminate. Grateful to @homophonous.bsky.social for the translations and to the invaluable #PosenLibrary.
Our next speaker, this Thursday afternoon: Pavel Sladek, Charles University of Prague @charlesuni.cuni.cz @mbikoeln.bsky.social
A new lecture series at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies in Cologne, all welcome 👉🏼 #earlymodern #skystorians #jewishstudies @unicologne.bsky.social @mbikoeln.bsky.social
In honor of Monika Richarz, funding available to research Early Modern Jewry. Applications (in German or English) due April 30. @biajs.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social
Jüdische Studien@juedstudien.bsky.social · 4mo ago#Chancen | "Ausschreibung zur Förderung von Forschungen zur Jüdischen Frühen Neuzeit", Monika Richarz-Fonds @igdjhh.bsky.social, Hamburg | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... Bewerbungsfrist: 30. April 2026
Two-day (all day) Judaica workshop on the history of the Hebrew printing to be held at the Library of Congress on May 4-5. You can attend the workshop both in person or virtually. For more information please see the flyer #HebrewBook @jewishlibraries.bsky.social @perurealfonso.bsky.social
Tag yourself. 👹 "Yokai" are a class of supernatural beings that have long been a favorite subject for Japanese artists and storytellers. These are from “Kyōsai’s illustrated story of 100 demons," a recently digitized volume from the Library's Asian Division. See more. ⬇️ www.loc.gov/resource/asi...
The April 15 @calrbs.bsky.social application deadline looms... make sure to get yours in while scholarships are still available! I'll be teaching Pop Bibliography, the study of how old books are portrayed in pop culture and what it means for the field of book history www.calrbs.org/english-pale...
Interested in studying the Holocaust? Applications are now open for our MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage. We're pleased to offer Sayers Family Scholarships available for 2026 entry. www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/holo...
MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage 9116 (1 year) | University of Southampton
Discover our Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage master’s degree at the University of Southampton. Prepare for a career in Holocaust education, outreach, heritage curation, public history and com...
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#Chancen | Frankel Institute Fellowship Rethinking Jewish Peoplehood: Towards a New Archive | 2027-2028 at the University of Michigan | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #fellowship Deadline for applications: November 2, 2026
#HybridEvent | Annual Howard Rein Memorial Lecture - Yair Wallach on Ashkenazi Medical professionals in the Arab Middle East in the 19th and even 20th century questioning the collective memory | Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ashkenazi-... May 5, 2026 | 18:00 BST | Hybrid
Ashkenazi Medical professionals in the Arab Middle East
Rethinking the stories we know. Please join us for a talk with Yair Wallach for the Annual Howard Rein Memorial Lecture
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We note that the National Endowment for the Humanities wikipedia page is in dire need of...✨updating.✨ To reflect the mass staff firings, grant terminations, firings of Council members, & #DOGE #DEI dealings of the past year. Anyone care to take on these updates for us? 🙏 Thanks. #NEH
National Endowment for the Humanities - Wikipedia
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The Chinese Matzah Campaign of 1905 How Chabad rallied to provide Jewish troops with matzah and kosher meat during the Russo-Japanese War elirubin.substack.com/p/the-chines...
The Chinese Matzah Campaign of 1905
How Chabad rallied to provide Jewish troops with matzah and kosher meat during the Russo-Japanese War
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#Webinar | Yom Hashoah 2026: A Duty to Remember with Eva Brettler, Belsen concentration camp survivor | April 14, 2026 06:00 PM CET #NieWiederIstJetzt #Holocaust #Survivor Registrate on: tourouniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Case for Handwritten Letters www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...
The Case for Handwritten Letters
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I’m leading this London Rare Book School course on the history of collecting. Ideal for anyone interested in studying the history of libraries and how and why books have survived. We’ll be looking at why special collections are special. 22-26 June. #bookHistory👇📚📖 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online mjsnow.hypotheses.org/3171
Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online
This is the earliest printed Haggadah, the only copy in the world. Printed in square, unpunctuated letters only 12 years prior to the exile of the Jews from Spain, this Haggadah is unique evidence of ...
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Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online mjsnow.hypotheses.org/3171
Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online
This is the earliest printed Haggadah, the only copy in the world. Printed in square, unpunctuated letters only 12 years prior to the exile of the Jews from Spain, this Haggadah is unique evidence of ...
mjsnow.hypotheses.org
Today is the 115th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire: 148 workers killed, most of them young Jewish immigrant women. Survivors like Pauline Newman fought for child labor protections. The @forward.com asks what it means that those protections are eroding again. forward.com/opinion/8095...
We're forgetting the lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
States have been gradually rolling back the protections that activists like Pauline Newman and Clara Lemlich bravely fought for
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Watch now! Javier del Barco (Complutense University of Madrid) explores the unique features of two manuscripts housed at the Library at the Katz Center that point to the Sephardic Hebrew Bible as a distinct and coherent book category. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ar... @sims-mss.bsky.social
The Sephardic Bible Bookcraft: Codicology, Layout, and Contents in Two Manuscripts
YouTube video by Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
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