Top of page
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
(The Following is a post by Ann Brener, Hebraic area specialist, African and Middle Eastern Division.) The Scroll of Ruth is one of the five biblical scrolls, and with its pastoral beauty and idyllic-like quality is surely one of the most popular books in the Hebrew Bible. The story, which unfolds in the fields of …
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Hebraic Section
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
Tuesday, June 7, 2016, noon – 1 p.m. Book Talk: The Double Life of Syrian Immigrants: The Arbeely Family by Dr. Linda Jacobs, Author This program is organized by the Near East Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division. Book signing to follow. Free and Open to the Public. Location: LJ-220, African Middle Eastern …
Posted in: Calendar of Events, Events
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
(The following is a post by Taru Spiegel, Reference Specialist, European Division.) The Library of Congress exhibit Jacob Riis: Revealing ‘How the Other Half Lives’ explores the work of a pioneering Danish-American photojournalist and social reformer. The Library’s Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) papers and Riis’s photographs from the Museum of the City of New York …
Posted in: European Reading Room, Exhibitions
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
Saturday, May 28, 2016, 10 – 11:30 a.m. Research Orientation: Introduction to Resources in the Library of Congress, Asian Collection Eiichi Ito, Reference Specialist, Asian Division The Asian Division is offering a research orientation about the Asian collection at the Library of Congress. Attendees will learn about online resources both in Asian languages and English …
Posted in: Calendar of Events
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
On the shelves of the Hebraic rare book collection, housed in the Library’s African and Middle Eastern Division, sits a Haggadah published in Amsterdam in 1781, by the Widow and Sons of Jacob Proops, a very well-established Hebrew printing press. According to Ann Brener, Hebraic area specialist, this Haggadah is listed in two classic bibliographies: …
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Hebraic Section
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
Tuesday, May 24, 2016, 1:30 p.m. Lectures: La Città degli Ebrei/The City of the Jews: Segregated Space and the Admission of Strangers in the Jewish Ghetto of Venice, a Conference Marking the 500th Anniversary of the Ghetto’s Founding The Law Library and European Division, Library of Congress, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy, the …
Posted in: Calendar of Events
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
(The following is a post by Kenneth Nyirady, Reference Specialist for Hungary, in the Library’s European Division.) The Library of Congress possesses more than 1,500 editions of the Bible in over 150 languages. The most famous item in this collection is the 15th-century Gutenberg Bible, on permanent display in the Library’s Great Hall. Also on …
Posted in: European Reading Room, Manuscripts, Rare Books and Special Collections
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
Friday, May 13, 2016, noon – 1 p.m. Lecture: The Literary Legacy of ÁLVARO MUTIS Charlotte Rogers, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia Assistant Professor of Spanish Charlotte Rogers (University of Virginia) will discuss the work and legacy of Álvaro Mutis, one of Colombia’s most prominent poets and prose writers, author of the acclaimed compendium “Adventures …
Posted in: Calendar of Events, Events, Lectures
Posted by: Anchi Hoh
(The following is a post by Ann Brener, Hebraic area specialist in the Library’s African and Middle Eastern Division.) The book is bound in dark brown leather over wooden boards, its tooled surface rubbed smooth with age. Its envelope-style binding, common to works in the Muslim world, is highly unusual in the world of Hebrew …
Posted in: African and Middle Eastern Division (AMED), Hebraic Section