The Manfred R. Lehmann Memorial Master Workshop in the History of the Jewish Book

The Jewish Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania Library and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, are pleased to announce the Manfred R. Lehmann Memorial Master Workshop.

2012 Topic: "Jewish Book Art in the Late Middle Ages"
Speaker: Dr. Katrin Kogman-Appel,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

2011 Topic: "Collectors and Collections: Hebrew Manuscripts and Incunabula in Russia"
Speaker: Shimon Iakerson, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Russian Museum of Ethnography.

2010 Topic: "The Jewish Book In and Around Amsterdam"
Speaker: Emile Schrijver, University of Amsterdam

2009 Topic: "The Traditional Eastern European Jewish Book, 1500-1900"
Speaker: Moshe Rosman, Bar Ilan University

2008 Topic: "From Manuscript to Print: Reading Colophons, Title Pages, and Other Paratexts"
Speaker: Menachem Schmelzer, Jewish Theological Seminary

2007 Topic: "Genizah Texts and the Expansion of Jewish Literacy"
Speaker: Stefan Reif, University of Cambridge

2006 Topic: "Chapters in the Early History of Hebrew Printing in the Ottoman Empire and The Early Yiddish Book"
Speakers: Joseph Hacker, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Shlomo Berger, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

2005 Topic: "Jewish Book Art and Illumination"
Speaker: Sarit Shalev Eyni, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2004 Topic: "Hebrew Printing 1470 to 1750"
Speaker: Mordecai Glatzer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2003 Topic: "Early Hebrew Printing"
Speaker: Mordecai Glatzer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2002 Topic: "Medieval Hebrew Script"
Speaker: Malachi Beit-Arie, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2001 Topic: "Medieval Hebrew Codicology and Paleography"
Speaker: Malachi Beit-Arie, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Manfred R. Lehmann Memorial Master Workshop in the History of the Jewish Book has been made possible by a generous contribution from the Manfred and Anne Lehmann Foundation along with grants from Mr. Albert Friedberg, the Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, Andrew H. Cohn, Esq. C'66, and the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation.