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Michelle Margolis
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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 🟦
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November 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
LOVE the תורת חיים. Use it every year - with my facsimiles :)
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Yup! I've seen them. Pretty cool initiative, IMHO.
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Really interesting to see it moving into a Judeo-Arabic context, but that's because it's being printed in Livorno.
November 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Yup. Mantua copied Venice.
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Ohhhhhh interesting. I was wonder about the שפוך חמתך illustration, and that's also the same. Not sure what's happening there...
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Quite cool indeed - I had the same thought. The illustrations in this one are wild.
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A Kurdish book of Tales (with silver leaf)! A prayerbook translated entirely into Italian by a woman (Eli bat Menahem)! Penintential prayers including the Temple as imagined by 18th c. French Jews! The Esslingen Mahazor (it's huge, but you can't tell from the pic)!
November 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
I was struck by items that were similar to ones in our collection, of course, like this Constantinople Ketubbah (ours is missing the decorated top, alas), and this micrographic carpet page on a Yemenite Bible (just bought one with a similar illustration - maybe the same artist?) 📜📚
November 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Okay, I finally have a minute to add some pics/comments: The exhibit was organized based on world areas. So we started with the Cairo Geniza, then moved to the Ottoman Empire, Persia, and Yemen.
(Here, an amulet and a Judeo-Persian Joseph story, + musical notation of Obadaya the Proselyte)
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
And links to full digitization of almost all of the materials!
November 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Thank you! I hope you said hi! (I didn't get names of everyone there :) )
November 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
They're trying :)
October 20, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Keep spreading the gospel!! Someone should do a podcast on the exhibit ;)
October 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Excellent on both accounts, from what I've heard!! People are loving it (as well they should! :) )
October 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I *really* wanted that to be our CH trip for this Sunday, but alas :(
October 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Reposted by Michelle Margolis
Honestly insane in mindblowingly cool documents per square foot, and also better for free than lots of other (perfectly good) exhibits I’ve paid for
October 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM