Summer Seminar Series: Paleography and Provenance in Printed Hebraica

Name: Summer Seminar Series: Paleography and Provenance in Printed Hebraica
Start: 2025-06-09T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-06-10T12:00:00-04:00
Location: 120 St. George St., Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M5S 1A5

Schedule

Mon, 09 Jun, 2025 at 09:00 am to Tue, 10 Jun, 2025 at 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

120 St. George St., Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M5S 1A5 | Toronto, ON

The Fisher Library, in cooperation with the Footprints: Jewish Books through Time and Place project, invites applicants to participate in a two-day workshop - Monday morning June 9 through Tuesday afternoon June 10, 2025 - in Toronto devoted to the study of early modern Hebrew paleography, especially as it appears in the margins of early printed books.
This free intensive workshop will train students as well as early career scholars of early modern Jewish history in paleography and the analysis of manuscript annotations in printed books. During this seminar, participants will engage in an intensive study of early modern Ashkenazic and Mizrahi Hebrew hands. They will also be introduced to the Footprints: Jewish Books through Time and Place project and taught how to contribute to this international collaboration on the history of Jewish books.
Instructors for this seminar:
• Ashkenazic paleography – Edward Fram (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
• Mizrahi paleography – Noam Sienna (University of Toronto)
• Provenance and early printed books – Marjorie Lehman (Jewish Theological Seminary); Michelle Margolis (Columbia University); Adam Shear (University of Pittsburgh); Joshua Teplitsky (University of Pennsylvania)
• Hebraica in the Toronto collections – Nadav Sharon (University of Toronto)
For more information and to download the application form, please visit: https://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/fisher-events/paleography-and-provenance-printed-hebraica