(The following is a post by Ann Brener, Hebraic area specialist in the Library’s African and Middle Eastern Division.) This Chanukah, it will be exactly one hundred years since a Jewish artist in revolution-torn Moscow presented his young stepdaughter, Tanya, with a wonderful Chanukah gift: a hand-lettered Russian fairytale in which the little girl herself …
(The following is a repost from the Insights: Work at the John W. Kluge Center, written by Dan Turello.) Members of the Scholars Council are appointed by the Librarian of Congress to advise on matters related to scholarship at the Library, with special attention to the Kluge Center and the Kluge Prize. The Council includes …
(The following is a repost from the Insights: Work at the John W. Kluge Center, written by Lucy Taylor, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Leeds and a 2015-2016 British Research Council Fellow at The John W. Kluge Center.) The Library of Congress holds some of the richest material in the world concerning African dance. …
(The following is a post by Angel Batiste, Area Specialist, African Section, African and Middle Eastern Division.) A hidden treasure in the Africana Collections of the Library of Congress is a vast repository of well over 35,000 items of an ephemeral nature relating to ‘post’ independence era political developments in the 54 nations of sub-Saharan …
(The following is a post by Marieta Harper, Area Specialist, African Section, African and Middle Eastern Division.) For almost a millennium, one of the world’s oldest manuscript collections has survived despite the vagaries of the weather, inadequate storage, termites, fire, theft, and wars. These are the manuscript collections of Timbuktu (a city on the edge …
Between December 2015 and April 2016 when the “4 Corners of the World” blog was created, reference specialists and curators of the African and Middle Eastern Division had written a number of posts for the Library’s various blogs. A recent post, “An Ingathering of the Exiles, Digital Style: Previous Blogs from the Hebraic Section,” lists …
In many ways the Armenian collections and programs at the Library of Congress will forever be intertwined with the name Dadian. Interest in the countries of the Middle East grew following the end of World War II, and that interest led to the creation of the Near East Section of the Library of Congress in …
(The following is a post by Fawzi M. Tadros, Area Specialist, Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Division.) The Holy Koran (or Qur’an, according to the Library of Congress transliteration system), is the divine book of Islam. Muslims believe that it was revealed by God through the archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad. The …
(The following post is by Hirad Dinavari, reference specialist for the Iranian World Collections, African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress.) In conjunction with the 2014 exhibition: “A Thousand Years of the Persian Book” at the Library of Congress, we in AMED teamed up with Roshan Persian Studies Institute at University of …
