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Don't miss the sixth Alfred Lehmann Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by Professor Dr Simone Lässig (TU Braunschweig), speaking on German Cities, Jewish Spaces: Representations, Belonging, and Cultural Change (1830s-1860s)
Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre
5 pm Wednesday 28 October

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A challenge for our Oxford readers, perhaps?

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Rare example of a medieval scribe practicing Latin, Greek, and Hebrew on the same fragment.

Any medievalists out there who can shed light on the style of the Latin characters?

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At Michaelmas's first #DavidPattersonLecture Dr Hillel Feuerstein (Hamburg University) will discuss 'Farther Away, Larger Still: Rumours, Traditions, and Reports about the Zohar in the Aftermath of the Spanish Expulsion'.
Thursday 22 October, 6 pm
Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre

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The tenth annual Edward Ullendorff Memorial Lecture will be given by Professor Ghil'ad Zuckermann (Massada Fellow, Worcester College, Oxford) this Thursday at 6 pm (Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre):
'The Fascinating and Multifaceted 3,300-year Evolution and Regenesis of Hebrew'.

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Samuel Kassow examines the Oyneg-shabes archive as an extraordinary act of spiritual and cultural resistance, exploring how Emanuel Ringelblum and the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto used documentation to preserve their dignity and assert their right to tell their own historySamuel Kassow examines the Oyneg-shabes archive as an extraordinary act of spiritual and cultural resistance, exploring how Emanuel Ringelblum and the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto used documentation to preserve their dignity and assert their right to tell their own history.

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We wish all our readers a merry Michaelmas!
In support of this merriment, from 12 October and until the end of Term, the Leopold Muller Memorial Library's opening hours will be extended: Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 7 pm.

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Having dinner in the Sukah this evening with nothing to read?
Why not try this 1881 Feast of Tabernacles seder? Part of a six-volume London Mahzor, this bilingual edition will keep you busy.

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We wish all our readers Shanah Tovah and Gemar Hatimah Tovah!
This volume of a Mahzor over two hundred years old from the then-Danish Altona can provide all the Selihot to recite for the Days of Awe.

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A gentle reminder to our readers that the Library's summer closure will begin in two weeks' time.

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If you would like to visit the Leopold Muller Memorial Library over the summer, please keep in mind that we will be closed from Monday 17 August to Monday 31 August (inclusive of both dates).
The Library will re-open on Tuesday 1 September.

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Planning your library study sessions for next week?
Remember that, even during a heatwave, the Leopold Muller Memorial Library remains the coolest of them all (so we are told).

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Any readers looking for relief from the heat wave are very welcome to visit the Leopold Muller Memorial Library - we are so cool you will never want to leave!

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All our readers are encouraged to make the most out of today's extended opening hours!
From next week onwards, the Leopold Muller Memorial Library will be reverting to its regular opening times of 9 am to 5 pm.

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At the next #DavidPattersonLecture Dr Camilla Recalcati (Hebrew University) will present her new book 'The Egyptian Background of the Septuagint: Evidence from Genesis, Exodus, and Leviticus'
6 pm Thursday 11 June
Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre
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In today's Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period #Seminar, Rebekah van Sant-Clark (Oxford) will be speaking on 'Ambiguity and the Poetics of Prophecy in the Book of Isaiah'.
2 pm Tuesday 9 June
Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre
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Today's #DavidPattersonLecture, 'Shared Words: Jews, Christians, and Prayer in Medieval Europe', will be given by Professor Elisheva Baumgarten (The Hebrew University).
Wednesday 3 June at 5 pm
Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre
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Hurrah for the Leopold Muller's very own Dr Merchán-Hamann! (if we do say so ourselves)

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Thank you to Dr. Merchán-Hamann and Professor Najman for another exciting session reading the Cairo Geniza Ben Sira manuscripts during this week’s Biblical Hebrew Reading Group.

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Tomorrow at the #DavidPattersonLecture Dean Irwin (OCHJS Visiting Fellow in Anglo-Jewish Medieval History) and Natasha Jenman (St Edmund Hall) will be discussing their new book 'The Medieval Jewish Lincoln Walking Tour'
6 pm on Thursday 28 May
Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre

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Books (and inserts) can remind us of some of the basics of being human - time is short, so make the most of it!

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A traditional memento found between the pages of one of the books we catalogued at the Jewish Community of Warsaw today.

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Happy Feast of Shavu'ot to all our readers!
Here are some Azharot from an 1843 Amsterdam Seder Mo'adim, just to get you started...