Hidden Treasures

Archivist in the Spotlight: Preserving Jewish Musical Heritage with Edoardo Marcarini - hiddentreasurenew In the second of our Archivist in the Spotlight series, we speak to Edoardo Marcarini, an ethnomusicologist and audio cataloguer whose recent […]

Have you read our second Archivist in the Spotlight blog yet?

We spoke to Edoardo Marcarini about cataloguing the collections at the Jewish Music Institute. From boxes in a shipping container to discovering audio treasures, read the blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...

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AAJR Workshop for Early Career Scholars in Jewish Studies According to their call, “the American Academy for Jewish Research is pleased to announce a Workshop for Early Career Scholars in Jewish Studies to be held at the Anne Tanenbaum Center for Jewish Stud...

AAJR Workshop for Early Career Scholars in Jewish Studies.
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Title page of the pamphlet. Text reads Application and testimonials for the post of lecturer in Talmudic in the University of Cambridge, by Solomon Schechter. 1890. Part of the title is in Gothic script

Solomon Schechter was born #OnThisDay in 1847. He was professor of Hebrew at @uclhjs.bsky.social and lecturer in Talmudics at Cambridge. Here's his application for the Cambridge post, apparently published in a pamphlet @uclspeccoll.bsky.social SR MOCATTA PAMPHLETS BOX 4 buff.ly/NBv06L6

Penwork and a face with a long tongue form the initial-word panel which marks the beginning of Torah portion Vayeshev (וַיֵּשֶׁב).
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BL Add MS 15423; 1441 CE-1467 CE; Italy; f.24v

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Rylands BlogRevived: The Rylands’ fragile Esther scroll brought back to life Our conservators and photographers are reporting on the successful conservation and digitisation of the Rylands’ beautiful parchment cut-out Esther scroll (Hebrew MS 54).

Read about the conservation of the Esther Scroll here: rylandscollections.com/2024/11/07/r...

One recent highlight is the intricate Esther Scroll that was "re-found" in the collections and has undergone extensive conservation supported by the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe. It's also been digitised, allowing anyone to see the document online.

Jewish and Hebrew Collections at the John Rylands Library and Manchester University Library - hiddentreasurenew The Jewish and Hebrew Collections at the John Rylands Library and Manchester University Library are specialist collections held by Manchester University which […]

2025 has marked John Rylands Research Institute and Library's 125th anniversary.

The collections include many Jewish and Hebrew items from 14th-century Rylands Sephardi Haggadah to papers of Moses Gaster from the late 1800s: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/jew...

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The Impact of Nazism - hiddentreasurenew Ursula Gilbert: The impact of Nazism • AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive

Between 1938 and 1940, around 10,000 children were brought to Britain. They were often the only members of their families who survived the Holocaust.

You can hear from another Kindertransport child, Ursula Gilbert, here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/th...

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Kindertransport Travel Document - hiddentreasurenew Kurt Marx's Travel Document • AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive

On 2nd December, 1938, the first Kindertransport arrived.

This document is from the AJR Refugee Voices Testimony Archive. Unusually, Kurt Marx was sent with his school thanks to their headteacher.

Read more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/ki...

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📷 B15-69, LP record. Benjamin Muller (1976) Chassidic Sound of Africa
📷 B51-61, set of three 12 inch 78 rpm shellac discs. Moshe Kusevitsky (1955) Festival Gems Sung by the Cantor of Warsaw

Follow him discovering rare finds from shellac disks to unique album covers all stored in a shipping container and find out what this work has meant for JMI and celebrating Jewish music.

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Archivist in the Spotlight: Preserving Jewish Musical Heritage with Edoardo Marcarini - hiddentreasurenew In the second of our Archivist in the Spotlight series, we speak to Edoardo Marcarini, an ethnomusicologist and audio cataloguer whose recent […]

Our next Archivist in the Spotlight is here...

Hear from Edoardo Marcarini whose recent project was cataloguing and conserving the vast and varied archive of the Jewish Music Institute

Read the blog here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...

#NewBlogPost #JewishMusic #Archives #Archivist

The slogans appear in English on one side and in Yiddish on the other.

📷 London Jewish Bakers Union banner, front and reverse • Jewish Museum London

The London Jewish Bakers’ Union was the longest-lived Jewish trade union, operating from 1905 to 1970.

The banner reminded shoppers to buy bread with the union label, which guaranteed it was baked under acceptable working conditions.

London Jewish Bakers Union banner - hiddentreasurenew London Jewish Bakers Union banner • The Jewish Museum, London

Now part of the Jewish Museum London collection, this is one of only two surviving Jewish union banners in Britain.

Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/treasures/lo...

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Ep. 66- Feelings about Perpetrators in Yiddish DIaries with Amy Shapiro Simon - The Holocaust History Podcast We often make the mistake of thinking that history is all about what happened and why.  However, its also very much about how people felt about what was happening to them.In this episode, I talke...

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How did Jews feel about their persecutors during the Holocaust? How do we know? In this episode, I talked with Amy Shapiro Simon about her fascinating work on ghetto diaries and these questions.

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'The diversity of Jewish life' - Dr @anikawalke.bsky.social her research into the Holocaust in Belorussia, in our 'Dialogues' podcast series - holocausteducation.org.uk/dialogues-in...
challenging a range of narratives, & reflecting on what this might mean for classroom practice.

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Handwritten letter. Creamy buff coloured paper with brown black ink sent from 68 Paradise Street, Liverpool on 28 April 1864

Letters regarding loss of ship Lord Raglan, departed from Liverpool in 1863, & regarding a passenger, Mark Bernstein. Mrs Bernstein wished to remarry and the synagogue required proof of the death of her first husband
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Archivist in the Spotlight: Cataloguing Jewish Sheffield with Frankie Drummond Charig - hiddentreasurenew Welcome to the first in our new series of blogs highlighting some of the archivists, collections and projects that make up the […]

The next Archivist in the Spotlight blog is coming next week, so catch up on the first.

Join Project Archivist, Frankie Drummond Charig, to hear about a project cataloguing Jewish material in Sheffield: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/archivi...

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The Jewish History Association of Wales: From South Wales Roots to a National Vision - hiddentreasurenew The Jewish History Association of South Wales turns eight this year. Laura Henley Harrison, project manager, tells us about how the organisation is changing to celebrate more of the Jewish heritage ac...

Our friends Jewish History Association of South Wales are expanding their scope to the whole of Wales and have plenty of new projects celebrating Welsh Jewish heritage.

Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/blog/the-jew...

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Handwritten letter. Very dark brown ink on cream buff paper. The letter starts: University College, Jan 12 1872. Dear Mr Elkin

Some really interesting correspondence found among the papers of the West London Synagogue respecting Mosaic Law and the proposed marriage of Mr Drucquer and Miss de Meza in 1872.
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Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide's Oldest Victims? A new exhibition at London's Wiener Holocaust Library spotlights the unique challenges faced by European Jews who were over the age of 55 during World War II

Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide’s Oldest Victims?

Our latest groundbreaking @hgrporg.bsky.social exhibition is featured in @smithsonianmag.bsky.social 🔗 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...

National Register of Memorial Boards - hiddentreasurenew The National Register of Jewish Memorial Boards is a digital collection by the British Jews in the First World War project. It is […]

The National Register of Jewish Memorial Boards is a database of boards commemorating British Jews who served in World War 1. Some are still in synagogues and cemeteries but others are now lost.

Find out more: celebratingjewisharchives.org/archives/nat...

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Joseph Ibn Hayyim marks the beginning of Torah portion Chayei Sarah (חַיֵּי שָׂרָה) with a bird wearing a golden crown.
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Bodleian Library MS Kennicott 1; 'The Kennicott Bible'; 1476 CE; La Coruña, Spain; f.18r @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library.

Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc

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📣 NGG WIP Seminar: Jews in Medieval Spain

Ana Roda Sánchez | Jews & converts in 15th-c Castile
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Mon 17 Nov 2025, 19:00–20:00 (UK), online.

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PhD and a Cup of Tea - Spatial Research of Łódź's Jewish Middle and Upper-Class Before the Holocaust - The Wiener Holocaust Library Part of our PhD and a Cup of Tea series of academic seminars. Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research exploring the spatial conduct of Łódź's Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.

Our PhD and a Cup of Tea series is back!

For our next event in the series Ruthie Kaplan will discuss her research following the spatial conduct of Łódź’s Jewish middle—and upper-class in the interwar period.

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Two Holocaust survivors wrote each other letters for decades. Now they're being shared with the world | CBC News Jewish London is hosting an event Thursday, Nov. 13 featuring a Canadian woman who came across a collection of her mother's old letters. The correspondence, lasting decades, reveals the experiences of...

"Often people think about the experience of the camps and the ensuing liberation, but not as much about what it feels like to like to carry those memories through the years that followed." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...