N.E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia. Lover of old & worn early printed books/manuscripts & the stories they tell in the margins. Co-director, Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place. #dhjewish 🟦
Michelle Margolis
I love that our library has a pick up option, and also it feels like we're going back to closed stacks when I do it.
More on historical Jewish women scribing here: www.imj.org.il/sites/defaul...
Okay, I'm not the best photographer, but stumbling across a 1909 set model (for "Herod") in the Brander Matthews collection while looking for a shortcut through the rare stacks was kind of awesome.
Well, this was a really really nice way to start #JAHM. I am truly honored.
www.libraryjournal.com/story/michel...
@libraryjournal.bsky.social
The CU Archives always does a fabulous display for Reunion. I was chuffed to see Isaac Abrahams (first Jewish CU grad, class of 1774), and the map of NYC with "(N) College" outlined in red (King's was the only option) as well as "(&) Jews Synagogue" and "Jews Cemetery."
@lauraleibman.bsky.social
Yep. When you digitize old stuff, you now have to look after the original artifact *and* it's digital surrogate. "Just put everything online" is not the labor-saving flex laypeople think it is.
Delighted by this new acquisition. A copy of a haggadah published in Amsterdam in 1695. Known simply as the Amsterdam haggadah, it's the first haggadah to incorporate copperplate engravings and contains one of the earliest maps of the Holy Land printed in Hebrew 1/7
www.imj.org.il
Michelle Margolis
Michelle Margolis
Michelle Margolis
Michelle Margolis
Michelle Margolis
#ilikedirtybooks 😍
no one likes historians because every time someone says “oh this is unheard of”
historians are all like “well actually”
and fundamentally it just doesn’t sound as impressive if you have to say
“in these slightly precedented times”
