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Haim Gottschalk

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I am a Hebraica-Judaica Cataloging Librarian, cataloging across the board in subjects and classification, ranging from 15th cen. through newest publications.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Here's the full list of 2026 National Recording Registry inductees!
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Laura Arnold Leibman @lauraleibman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
For those who missed it in person, here is the video from the Jews and 1776 talk at the Library of Congress: www.loc.gov/item/video-1... #nationaljewishheritagemonth #America250
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1776: Jews and the American Revolution with Laura Arnold Leibman
Join us for a lecture by award-winning historian and author Professor Laura Arnold Leibman on how Jews shaped the American Revolution and how the Revolution remapped American Jewish life.Although nume...
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Jüdische Studien @juedstudien.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
#OnlineTalk | America's Jewish Questions at 250 Years - Lana Dee Povitz | On the Importance of Coalitional Feminism to American Jewish History | @‌Penn @katz | Details: katz.sas.upenn.edu/events/impor... May 12, 2026 | 06:00 PM CET | On Zoom
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On the Importance of Coalitional Feminism to American Jewish History
Lana Dee Povitz recalls how feminist Jews shaped history of the American Jewish left
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Jüdische Studien @juedstudien.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
#Ressource | Call for proposals for Body and Mind, the tenth volume of the Contemporary Studies on Language and Literature series | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... Deadline for submissions: June 15, 2026
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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The conservation team do awesome magic in preserving and conserving library materials
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
For #PreservationWeek, we are bringing you a behind the scenes look at what some of our conservation experts do on a daily basis to preserve the materials housed at the Library of Congress!
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
REMINDER: The deadline for submissions for the Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film is coming up on May 3!
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Ari Davidow @ari.mastodon.well.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026
UK Yiddish Summer School, 17-21 Aug 2026 N. London #yiddish #klezmer #yiddishhistory #yiddishsong #yiddishliterature tinyurl.com/yiddishsummer
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Summer Yiddish Festival - ZumerFest - London 2026
Dive into the rich world of Yiddish culture with fun language classes, klezmer workshops, Yiddish song, films, dance, literature and more.
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Sabrina Inowlocki @sabrinainowlocki.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
📚📖📚📖This Wednesday at the National Library in Jerusalem, prof. Maren Niehoff and myself will be in conversation about the libraries of Alexandria and Caesarea. If you want to join: www.nli.org.il/he/visit/eve... @romanaerc.bsky.social
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Alfonso de Zamora @perurealfonso.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
#JewishBooks #BookHistory hybrid 👇
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Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Castilian, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew Teaching my students #MedievalSpain through the quadrilingual epitaph of Fernando III (1199-1252), dedicated by his son, Alfonso X. It never ceases to illuminate. Grateful to @homophonous.bsky.social for the translations and to the invaluable #PosenLibrary.
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Agata Paluch @agpal.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Our next speaker, this Thursday afternoon: Pavel Sladek, Charles University of Prague @charlesuni.cuni.cz @mbikoeln.bsky.social
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Agata Paluch @agpal.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
A new lecture series at the Martin Buber Institute for Jewish Studies in Cologne, all welcome 👉🏼 #earlymodern #skystorians #jewishstudies @unicologne.bsky.social @mbikoeln.bsky.social
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Sonia Gollance @sgollance.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
In honor of Monika Richarz, funding available to research Early Modern Jewry. Applications (in German or English) due April 30. @biajs.bsky.social @uclhjs.bsky.social
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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Two-day (all day) Judaica workshop on the history of the Hebrew printing to be held at the Library of Congress on May 4-5. You can attend the workshop both in person or virtually. For more information please see the flyer #HebrewBook @jewishlibraries.bsky.social @perurealfonso.bsky.social
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Tag yourself. 👹 "Yokai" are a class of supernatural beings that have long been a favorite subject for Japanese artists and storytellers. These are from “Kyōsai’s illustrated story of 100 demons," a recently digitized volume from the Library's Asian Division. See more. ⬇️ www.loc.gov/resource/asi...
Different types of "yokai" from a 19th century Japanese book. They are in all shapes and sizes, and some resemble real-world creatures, from frogs to dogs to insects. Others look uniquely monstrous. Some are just walking while others carry weapons.A yellow demon with a hammer prepares to strike a bright red, one-eyed demon resembling a beetle. A green demon with a spear stands in front of them, watching the scene unfold.On the left, a headless demon holds up a mirror for a demon applying makeup to its face. On the right, a demon with three eyes stands on its hands and sticks out its tongue at a bear-like demon with a human-looking face, also sticking out its tongue. Several creatures appear to peer at the scene through small slits drawn onto the paper, possibly meant to appear like cracks in reality.
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Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The April 15 @calrbs.bsky.social application deadline looms... make sure to get yours in while scholarships are still available! I'll be teaching Pop Bibliography, the study of how old books are portrayed in pop culture and what it means for the field of book history www.calrbs.org/english-pale...
Promo image for Pop Bibliography class
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Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Interested in studying the Holocaust? Applications are now open for our MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage. We're pleased to offer Sayers Family Scholarships available for 2026 entry. www.southampton.ac.uk/courses/holo...
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MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage 9116 (1 year) | University of Southampton
Discover our Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage master’s degree at the University of Southampton. Prepare for a career in Holocaust education, outreach, heritage curation, public history and com...
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Jüdische Studien @juedstudien.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
#Chancen | Frankel Institute Fellowship Rethinking Jewish Peoplehood: Towards a New Archive | 2027-2028 at the University of Michigan | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #fellowship Deadline for applications: November 2, 2026
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Jüdische Studien @juedstudien.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
#HybridEvent | Annual Howard Rein Memorial Lecture - Yair Wallach on Ashkenazi Medical professionals in the Arab Middle East in the 19th and even 20th century questioning the collective memory | Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ashkenazi-... May 5, 2026 | 18:00 BST | Hybrid
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Ashkenazi Medical professionals in the Arab Middle East
Rethinking the stories we know. Please join us for a talk with Yair Wallach for the Annual Howard Rein Memorial Lecture
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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We note that the National Endowment for the Humanities wikipedia page is in dire need of...✨updating.✨ To reflect the mass staff firings, grant terminations, firings of Council members, & #DOGE #DEI dealings of the past year. Anyone care to take on these updates for us? 🙏 Thanks. #NEH
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National Endowment for the Humanities - Wikipedia
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Eli Rubin @elirubin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The Chinese Matzah Campaign of 1905 How Chabad rallied to provide Jewish troops with matzah and kosher meat during the Russo-Japanese War elirubin.substack.com/p/the-chines...
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The Chinese Matzah Campaign of 1905
How Chabad rallied to provide Jewish troops with matzah and kosher meat during the Russo-Japanese War
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Jüdische Studien @juedstudien.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
#Webinar | Yom Hashoah 2026: A Duty to Remember with Eva Brettler, Belsen concentration camp survivor | April 14, 2026 06:00 PM CET #NieWiederIstJetzt #Holocaust #Survivor Registrate on: tourouniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The Case for Handwritten Letters www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w...
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The Case for Handwritten Letters
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Association of Jewish Libraries @jewishlibraries.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I’m leading this London Rare Book School course on the history of collecting. Ideal for anyone interested in studying the history of libraries and how and why books have survived. We’ll be looking at why special collections are special. 22-26 June. #bookHistory👇📚📖 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...
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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online mjsnow.hypotheses.org/3171
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Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online
This is the earliest printed Haggadah, the only copy in the world. Printed in square, unpunctuated letters only 12 years prior to the exile of the Jews from Spain, this Haggadah is unique evidence of ...
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Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online mjsnow.hypotheses.org/3171
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Spotlighting Passover: the earliest printed Haggadah, c.1480 from Guadalajara (Iberia) and now housed in the National Library of Israel, is digitized online
This is the earliest printed Haggadah, the only copy in the world. Printed in square, unpunctuated letters only 12 years prior to the exile of the Jews from Spain, this Haggadah is unique evidence of ...
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Berman Archive at Stanford @bermanarchive.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Today is the 115th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire: 148 workers killed, most of them young Jewish immigrant women. Survivors like Pauline Newman fought for child labor protections. The @forward.com asks what it means that those protections are eroding again. forward.com/opinion/8095...
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We're forgetting the lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
States have been gradually rolling back the protections that activists like Pauline Newman and Clara Lemlich bravely fought for
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Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Watch now! Javier del Barco (Complutense University of Madrid) explores the unique features of two manuscripts housed at the Library at the Katz Center that point to the Sephardic Hebrew Bible as a distinct and coherent book category. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9Ar... @sims-mss.bsky.social
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The Sephardic Bible Bookcraft: Codicology, Layout, and Contents in Two Manuscripts
YouTube video by Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
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Dan Carkner @alte.klezmor.im · 24/03/2026
free online event in Yiddish, on March 29, about the history of the now-defunct Montreal Workers Circle branch
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The History of the Workmen’s Circle in Montreal
די געשיכטע פֿון אַרבעטער־רינג אין מאָנטרעאָל
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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Deadline extended to April 1! Spring break is a perfect time to finish that essay...
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Adi Weiss @adiweiss.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
History Notes March 19, 1918: US President Woodrow Wilson signs the Standard Time Act, which establishes Daylight Saving Time in the United States and gives the federal government oversight of the country's time zones.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The Library is looking for its next Innovator in Residence! Through April 10, the Library invites technologists, artists and other creative visionaries to propose imaginative proof of concepts designed to help the public connect with digital Library materials. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...
Graphic reads "Be the next Innovator in Residence"
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Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Are you interested in applying for our MA Holocaust: History, Experience, Heritage? We're running a webinar in April to share information about the course, scholarships, and to answer your questions. Register here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Parkes Institute MA Holocaust webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Parkes Institute MA Holocaust webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Scholars of Jewish literature, thought, and culture: Please share and consider submitting to our inaugural Yiddish & Hebrew issue edited by @samspinner.bsky.social
call for papers for Yiddish and Hebrew issue, MLN
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Strongbird @songbird.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Is there any Yiddish blogs or other small frequent things to read? I read the Yiddish Forwards for daily practice but I would like to add more.
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Laura Arnold Leibman @lauraleibman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Posen library fellowships! www.posenlibrary.com/fellowship?f...
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Fellowship
The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, curated by leading Jewish studies scholars, is an anthology of texts and images containing thousands of sources—and growing.
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 02/03/2026
This is a fragment from the oldest Hebrew Bible manuscript with a given date of production. It's the end of the book of Nehemiah, pointed with Babylonian vowel signs. A Jewish scribe named Joseph ben Nimorad completed it in 903/4 CE at Gunbad-i-Mallgan (modern Dogonbadan, Iran).
Excerpt from 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah', page 33:
"This is the end of the biblical book of Nehemiah, written in Hebrew and vocalised with the Babylonian vowel system. In contrast to the Palestinian and Tiberian systems – which mainly used dots to represent vowel sounds – the Babylonian system also used miniature Hebrew letters for vowels and accents. Like the Palestinian system, the Babylonian vowel signs fell out of favour with the rise of the Tiberian system. This fragment includes a colophon (in the middle of the lefthand page) from a scribe named Joseph ben Nimorad, stating that he copied the book in a town in Iran in the year 903/904 CE. This makes it one of the earliest known dated Hebrew manuscripts. While Joseph was a member of the Jewish diaspora community that lived in Iraq and Iran, eventually someone carried his manuscript to Egypt."

Image and catalogue description here: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-NS-00246-00026-00002/1
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
For the "everything is online" crowd in the back: Important to consider that "everything" cultural heritage related that is accessible online represents only 1% (one percent) of archives, libraries, and museum collections worldwide.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
#OTD in 1931, Congress voted to create a national library service for the blind. This came decades after 7th Librarian of Congress John Russell Young established the very concept of a national library for the blind, overseeing the creation a reading room for the blind at the Library in 1897. 🧵
Black and white photograph shows Adelia M. Hoyt, librarian in the Reading Room for the Blind, typing on a typewriter. She wears a dark dress with full length sleeves, and dark glasses. Her hair is in a braid arranged on top of her head. Bookshelves can be seen in the background. Between 1913 and 1920. Underwood & Underwood.Black and white photograph of John Russell Young, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. His short hair is parted in the center and he has a handlebar mustache. He wears a collared jacket and shirt. 1897.
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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🔎 Rare 18th-century punches used to create the original Baskerville typeface have been digitised and released online. Designers, historians and the wider public now have the opportunity to study the physical tools that shaped modern typography. 🔗https://loom.ly/1ulLaFI
A close-up of a person wearing teal gloves holding a small metal type punch engraved with an ampersand symbol. In the background, part of the person’s face is softly out of focus. A bearded man wearing teal gloves uses a green rubber air blower to clean a small metal type punch. He sits at a desk with an open wooden case filled with neatly arranged metal punches, while a computer monitor displaying a magnified image is visible in the background.
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Laura Arnold Leibman @lauraleibman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Ever wonder what books Jews in colonial New York printed and sold? Check out this wonderful blog post by Megan Scauri about Benjamin Gomez, one of the members of Congregation Shearith Israel - The Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue
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Colonial Bookseller Benjamin Gomez: The books tell the story - American Jewish Historical Society
One of the earliest Jewish publishers/booksellers in America was Benjamin Gomez, who had a bookshop in downtown New York City. He came from a prominent Sephardic family and was a fourth-generation Ame...
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Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies @sims-mss.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
For #CoffeeWithACodex on March 5, Judaica Special Collections Cataloging Librarian Louis Meiselman will bring out CAJS Rar Ms 720, Marcus Hartig's alphabetization of the Hebrew Psalms, in his 1876 manuscript. Register here: bit.ly/4sjWykb
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Coffee with a Codex: Alphabetized Psalms in Hebrew
An informal lunch or coffee time to meet virtually with Kislak curators and talk about one of the manuscripts from Penn's collections. Each week we'll feature a different...
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Lisa Goldman @lisang.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The Jewish Israeli woman who loved and was loved by Palestine’s most famous poet died this week. Their romance couldn’t survive politics, but the poetry it inspired is loved by millions. My article for @newlinesmag.bsky.social: newlinesmag.com/running-note...
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Prof. Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I know there's a lot going on right now, but don't forget to apply to @calrbs.bsky.social -- priority applications close in April! I'm teaching Pop Bibliography there again, and would love to have you in my class: www.calrbs.org/english-pale...
Promo image for Pop Bibliography, giving the dates of August 3-7 below an image of the bejeweled book that opens Disney's Sleeping Beauty
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Jüdische Studien @juedstudien.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
#Chancen | POLIN Museum invites applications for its second Summer School program for early-career scholars – doctoral students & post-docs | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht... #SummerSchool #Warsaw Deadline for applications: March 31, 2026
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Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Hey #medievalsky #manuscriptsky - do you have any examples of codices made into scrolls or rolls? Any genre.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Here is a cool call for the #bookhistory communities: “Women Printing for Institutions in Early Modern Europe”, at the HAB Wolfenbüttel (and organized by Saskia Limbach) in November 2026. CFP: www.hab.de/wp-content/u...
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The study points to using libraries and visiting museums as bringing these enormous brain health benefits ... who would have thought? Well, librarians and museum folk for a start ... www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study finds
Cognitive health in later life is ‘strongly influenced’ by lifelong exposure to intellectually stimulating environments, say researchers
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