Haaretz has an article (English) (Hebrew) about Oded Ezer, a graphic artist who has designed a new Hebrew font, Rutz. The article describes the process of creating a new font and gives an overview of the most popular Hebrew fonts in use today and their history.
David Stern writes in the Forward about the recent sale of the Valmadonna Trust Library. Here is Stern’s description of when the library was on display at Sotheby’s. The exhibition was the closest one could ever come to seeing the entire Jewish people in its generations gathered in a single enclosed space. There is a [...]
Great news from the JTS Library. Make sure that you read the fourth paragraph describing what is not included. ————————- As readers of News from The Library know, The Library’s efforts to make rare and unique parts of its collection available online began several years ago, and realized their first substantial success with the digitization [...]
There is another aspect of the prohibition of Lo Tehanem that I would like to write about. For some background see this previous post. Not surprisingly, as with many topics addressing the relationship between Jews and non-Jews, the texts that discuss this issue have an interesting textual history. I want to illustrate this by examining [...]
At Parshablog R. Josh Waxman mentions a new ḥumrah against using maps. This ḥumrah is from a ḥassidisch school, so there’s no reason to think that this absurdity has gone beyond this school’s walls, and let’s hope that it doesn’t. Josh comments that I’d just point out that Mizrachi, the famous supercommentator of Rashi, includes [...]
An exhibition just ended at Lambeth Palace Library in London that featured both a complete Bomberg Talmud and a Gutenberg Bible. Read here about the very interesting history of this copy of the Bomberg Talmud.
Part of the Braginsky Collection of Hebrew books and manuscripts is now online. It is worth a visit. (hat tip)
Pauline Malkiel, the librarian of the Valmadonna Trust Library, has a post at Seforim, now back at its old home, on the library. There is also an article by Allison Hoffman in Tablet on the library. The two of them make nice complimentary reading on the library, its history, and what the future may hold [...]
Via H-Judaic: Professor Meir Benayahu z”l has passed away in Jerusalem. From a young age, Benayahu became known as a great expert in the reading of ancient manuscripts, deciphering their content, and identifying their authorship and time periods. His expertise in the field of Hebrew paleography redeemed thousands of manuscripts, letters and certificates from all [...]
Today we went on a family outing to see the Valmadonna Trust Library. It really was a breath-taking exhibit. Although my kids had little patience for me continuously stopping to look at specific books, hopefully one day they’ll understand how important it was to see this collection. There are still a few days left to [...]
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