This will ensure you can be let into the Zoom room before we reach full capacity. To ensure you are able to join the event, please ‘arrive’ (via the link sent through Eventbrite ) around 5 minutes before the start. Our virtual events are becoming increasingly popular and often completely sell out. In 2009, Ilana was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to scholarship. Ilana has been the Lead Curator responsible for the smooth running and delivery of the Hebrew Manuscripts Digitization Project, a major, externally funded project undertaken by the British Library, 2013-2020. In addition to being responsible for the significant British Library’s Hebraic collections, she also manages the Library’s Christian Orient collections, which include the Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Georgian and Syriac holdings. Since 2010, Ilana has been Lead Curator of Hebrew and Christian Orient Studies. 7,000 Genizah fragments and ca 75,000 printed books. In 2002, she became Head of the Hebrew Section in charge of one of the finest Hebraic collections in the UK, comprising some 3,000 Hebrew manuscripts, c. Ilana joined the British Library as Hebraica Curator in 1989. OBE has been educated at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, and at the Aston University in Birmingham, UK where she was awarded a Master of Philosophy degree. The exhibition provides a snapshot of the range and richness of Hebrew Manuscripts in the British Library’s collection and reveals the power of the written word to bring people together. A fair number of manuscripts are on public view for the first time. ![]() Spanning science, religion, law, music, philosophy, magic, alchemy and Kabbalah, highlights include one of the first Jewish scientific works written in the Hebrew language, a manuscript containing instructions for mystical meditation, the autograph responsum of Moses Maimonides, the reply of Jacob Rafael of Modena regarding the law of levirate in relation to King Henri VIII’s marriage annulment and the First Gaster Bible, the earliest object in the exhibition dating from the 10th century. The exhibition showcases around 40 significant manuscripts, featuring beautifully illuminated texts, intricately detailed illustrations, scientific diagrams and fascinating personal stories revealed through the writing people have left behind. Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Word showcases rarely-seen treasures from as far back as the 10th century, spanning a diverse geography from Europe and North Africa, through to the Middle East and China to explore the interactions, exchanges of knowledge and influences between Jewish people and their neighbors in the communities they lived in. Join the KQ for this Virtual Event in collaboration with the British Library, Hebrew Manuscripts.Ī new exhibition exploring the history, culture and traditions of Jewish people through the ages and from all corners of the world ![]() Date and time: Wednesday, August 19, 2020, 3 to 4 pm British Summer Time (UTC+1)
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