La British Library conserve une Haggada de Pâques de rite sépharade du XIVe siècle (MS Add. 14761), communément appelée la « Haggada de Barcelone ». Même si, comme le montre son appellation, de nombreux chercheurs ont localisé sa réalisation à Barcelone, son origine est en réalité incertaine. Déjà a...

Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art 19 (2023) is out

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Andreas Lehnertz (30 juil. 2024)

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Read now the special issue "Revealing the Object" of Ars Judaica: The Bar-Ilan Journal of Jewish Art 19 (2023), ed. by guest editor Naomi Feuchtwanger-Sarig, including much mediueval content. Read it

New book: The Kennicott Bible: A Masterpiece of Jewish Book Art, by Katrin Kogman-Appel

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Maria Stürzebecher (29 juil. 2024)

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Review of Mordechai Z. Cohen's "The Rule of 'Peshat'"

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Andreas Lehnertz (3 janv. 2023)

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You can now read Katrin Kogman-Appel's review of Mordechai Z. Cohen's The Rule of "Peshat." Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900–1270 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). Read it

The Emergence of the Passover Haggadah as a Book Genre

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Andreas Lehnertz (26 déc. 2022)

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Katrin Kogman-Appel, University of Münster Most readers of this blog know what the haggadah is: a small book, oftentimes illustrated or at least decorated, kept in Jewish households in numerous copies, which contains the liturgy to be recited during the Passover seder. Nowadays, every participant wi...

Online Talk by Katrin Kogman-Appel about "The Agency of Images: Revisiting the Temple Vessels in Hebrew Bibles from Medieval Iberia," 28 December 2022

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Andreas Lehnertz (25 déc. 2022)

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Katrin Kogman-Appel will speak about "The Agency of Images: Revisiting the Temple Vessels in Hebrew Bibles from Medieval Iberia" in the Bar-Ilan University series "From the Researcher's Diary" on Wednesday, 28 December 2022. Start: 16:00 Israel Standard Time. Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78955022...

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Andreas Lehnertz (30 nov. 2022)

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Meyrav Levy PhD Candidate Westfälische Wilhelms-University Münster, Institute for Jewish Studies Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Katrin Kogman-Appel and Dr. Laura Suzanne Lieber "In my forthcoming doctoral dissertation, “Ashkenazi Mahzorim as Generators of an Affective Experience,” I seek to capture the cogn...

Virtual Talk by Katrin Kogman-Appel "The Bookcases of the Sullam Family Dynamics of Book Collecting in Mantua, c. 1600" April 24, 12:15 Israel Time

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Hannah Teddy Schachter (21 avr. 2022)

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Prof. Katrin Kogman Appel Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Jewish Studies, Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster April 24 , 2022 12:15 Israel TimeZOOM https us 02 web zoom us/j/ 84051528024 Meeting ID 840 5152 8024

Katrin Kogman-Appel, Catalan Maps and Jewish Books. The Intellectual profile of Elisha ben Abraham Cresques (1325-1387)

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Houssaye Michienzi Ingrid (17 mars 2022)

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L’étude de Katrin Kogman-Appel offre une approche ambitieuse et originale du profil intellectuel d’Elisha ben Abraham Cresques, un homme aux intérêts multiples, tant scientifiques que rabbiniques. Passé à la postérité sous le nom d’Abraham Cresques, il était à la fois cartographe du souverain Pierre...

Katrin Kogman-Appel, Catalan Maps and Jewish Books. The Intellectual profile of Elisha ben Abraham Cresques (1325-1387), Turnhout, Brepols, collection Terrarum Orbis (TO 15), 2020, 358 p., ISBN: 9782503585482

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Ingrid Houssaye Michienzi (2022)

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YouTube Lecture - The Cloisters and the Jews in Medieval Spain: A Conversation on Art, Literature, and History

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Eyal Levinson (22 sept. 2021)

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Julia Perratore the curator of the new exhibit at the Cloisters Spain, 1000-1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith leads a conversation about the history and cultures of Jews in medieval Iberia, contextualizing the exhibit. Katrin Kogman-Appel discusses medieval art and architecture from this period, J...

Catalan maps and Jewish books

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Christine Gadrat-Ouerfelli (3 juin 2020)

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Vient de paraître: Katrin Kogman-Appel, Catalan Maps and Jewish Books. The Intellectual Profile of Elisha ben Abraham Cresques (1325-1387), Turnhout, Brepols, coll. Terrarum orbis 15, 2020. Présentation : This books describes the life of Elisa ben Abraham Cresques, known to many as the author of the...

Sephardic Book Art of the XVth century

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(18 févr. 2015)

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This conference will focus on the cultural and artistic questions posed by Sephardic codices of the 15th century by gathering scholars who have studied or are studying these manuscripts. Moreover, issues related with the materiality of these manuscripts will also be discussed, including codicologica...