Exploring Jewish Cultural Heritage in the Near East
Jüdisches Leben in der arabischen Welt. Verflochtenes Miteinander Diese Ausstellung lädt Besucherinnen und Besucher ein, jüdisch-arabische Lebenswelten vom 19. bis in die Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts neu zu entdecken. Historische Fotografien aus dem Maghreb, Libyen, Ägypten, Syrien, Irak und Jemen … Continued
Jewish Book Culture in the Islamicate World Principal Investigator: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (University of Oxford) and Ronny Vollandt (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich) Funded by: German Research Foundation and Arts and Humanities Research Council Timeframe: 2020–2023
This project will recover a significant portion of the rich Arabic and Judeo-Arabic manuscript heritage known as the Firkovitch Collection, held in the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg and available in microfilm and digital form at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.
The aim of this project is to critically analyse the exegetical work of the Coptic author Simʿān ibn Kalīl (d. ca. 1236/37) on the Gospel of Matthew.
