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13 January 2026, 18:00 CET, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Wilhelm-von-Humboldt-Saal, Unter den Linden 8, 10117 Berlin The two-volume Erfurt Bible is the world’s largest known Hebrew parchment Bible, which is why it is also known as the ‘Giant Bible’. It originates from the Jewish community in Erfurt, which fell victim to a pogrom in 1349. The manuscripts were saved and finally arr...

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Read the Fragment of the Month article by Noam Sienna about “Their Battlefield is Eight upon Eight”:  A Newly-Discovered Hebrew Poem on Chess (T-S Misc. 17.60)” via the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit.

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Hier ist eine Rezension von Jörg R. Müller zu Marie Buňatová (Hg.): Migrationsprozesse und Mobilität der europäischen Juden am Übergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit.

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Read now the new issue of Sephardic Horizons 15.3 (2025).

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The deadline for the Mark and Ruth Luckens Essay Competition in Jewish Thought and Culture has been extended to 15 December 2025.

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