Haim Gottschalk

The latest installment in our series on book rebinding, where the Library's advanced book conservation interns are taking you through all the steps of rebinding a book from the Library's Thomas Jefferson Library Collection! Scroll back in our feed to see Act I, and check back next week for Act III.

A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah, Spain c. 1300 | Important Judaica | 2025 | Sotheby's <p>A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah</p><p><em>[Toledo, late 13th-early 14th century]</em></p><p><br></p><p>249 folios (10 1/4 x 9 in.; 260 x 230 mm), manuscript on parchment. Bound in ela...

It’s not every day that one of these 13th-14th century Masoretic Bibles from Spain goes up for sale…

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I am looking forward to this conference. Hop you can attend.

The Association of Jewish Libraries is now soliciting proposals for its 2026 in-person conference, taking place June 22–24, 2026, in Evanston, Illinois.

For more information, visit jewishlibraries.org/....

Submissions must be received by December 31, 2025.

PhD in Jewish Languages & Literatures at Johns Hopkins!! Accepting applications

@jewishstudies.bsky.social @jewishlibraries.bsky.social

Interior of the Portuguese Jewish Synagogue in Amsterdam, 1680. Painted by Emanuel de Witte, whose day is today.

LC has many many cool stuff. Here's a look at one of them.

A Thanksgiving week treat from the Library of Congress to you: A close-up look at what many culinary historians see as the "first" American cookbook, Amelia Simmons’ "American Cookery."
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Bookish/collections people of Bluesky! What are some of your favorite examples of Libguides? I'm thinking both in terms of design and content!

This became a dark period in Hollywood - ruined many lives.

In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 162 years ago today, President Lincoln gave one of the most famous speeches in American history, extolling the sacrifices of the men who died in the battle there. There are five known manuscript copies of the Gettysburg Address. The Library of Congress has two of those.

France promotes Jewish soldier Alfred Dreyfus, 130 years after wrongfully convicting him of treason French army captain Alfred Dreyfus was posthumously promoted to the rank of brigadier general on Tuesday, 130 years after he was wrongly convicted of treason in one of France's most notorious cases of...

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JOB POSTING!

Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu

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No Pasarán! Jewish Collective Memory in the Spanish Civil War with Prof. Amelia Glaser | 2025 Zhargon Speaker Series As part of the 2025 Zhargon Speaker Series, Prof. Amelia Glaser discusses her work on anti-fascist Jewish poetry emerging from the Spanish Civil War, an early literary front of the international strug...

on Thursday at 7pm PST we have this great free lecture with Prof. Amelia Glaser being held by the Peretz Centre as part of our Zhargon series.

"The Spanish Civil War can be considered the beginning of a decade-long international struggle against the rising threat of fascism."

Back to School in the Rare Book Classroom | Bibliomania As students and teachers across the country begin a new school year, the Rare Book Classroom invites K-12 and university-level classes to explore the Library of Congress’s materials both on-site and r...

Did you know that the Library of Congress has a rare book classroom as part of LC's education outreach initiatives. You can read about n a recent blog post in Bibliomania, LC's blog from the Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

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‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers

This sounds incredibly exciting www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

The Oxford Jewry is the focus of a new walking tour next year, being developed by Tash Jenman and Naomi Reiter. This will join other walking tours of Lincoln (Tash and Me), Canterbury (Me), London (me and community), and Winchester (Tina Welch et al) which open up England's medieval Jewish history

Love this photo.

Very breathtaking

JOB POSTING! 📚📜

Catalog/Metadata Librarian (Arabic Language) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

The salary range is $68,000—$145,250 (depending on experience).

careers.yale.edu/us/en/job/13...

JOB: Senior Director of Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication (Ball State University) ← dh+lib

📢 Call for Papers

2026 Western Jewish Studies Association Conference
🏫 University of Denver | 📍 Denver, CO
📅 March 22–23, 2026

📩 Submit proposals by November 14, 2025 to: joshua.furman@DU.edu
🔗 More info: www.wjsa.net/dues.html

#Chancen | Position of an assistant professor whose research focuses on the study of Israel and/or the Middle East at @University of Nebraska, Ohama | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

#Israel #MiddleEast #UNO

Review of applications starts on November 21, 2025

#Chancen | Position of an Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies Smith College | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

#Jewishstudies #Islamicworld #Hebrew

Review of applications starts on December 1, 2025

Join AJL as we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Jewish Book Month! What's on your Jewish bookshelf?

#JewishBookMonth
#JewishBookMonth100

Great news👇

Library of Congress buildings are now open to the public, researchers and staff.

Fall foliage lights up at sunset in front of the Library's Jefferson Building, November 22, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.

Due to Congressional action, Federal Government operations resumed on Thursday, November 13. Library of Congress buildings will open at noon to the public and researchers and staff. Visit www.loc.gov for additional information.

📚 I’m thrilled to share that “Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects”, edited by @dremilinesmith.bsky.social and myself, is now published and available as Open Access via @springernature.com.

🔗https://lnkd.in/gBCv2KDH

#Event | Call for applications for 2026 Joint #Workshop: Towards an Integrated History of the Holocaust in Eastern Europe – New Research and Perspectives, July 26–July 31, 2026, in USHMM, NY | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

Deadline for applications: January 14, 2026.