Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A researcher of MiDRASH, a project dedicated to analysing the National Library of Israel’s digital database of all known Hebrew ...

The Jewish Museum in New York is opening an exhibit featuring medieval religious manuscripts, many on display for the first time. The manuscripts come from the Bodleian Library at Oxford College in ...

(JTA) — A 700-year-old Jewish prayerbook from Germany, offered for sale by a French Jewish organization to shore up its finances, sold at auction on Tuesday for $8.3 million. Known as the Luzzatto ...

Known as the Birds’ Head Haggadah, the medieval manuscript features illustrated figures with human bodies and bird heads laboring to make the traditional matzah bread eaten during Passover. (JTA) — ...

(RNS) — More than a century ago, in 1896, Rabbi Solomon Schechter, the great Jewish educator and founder of Conservative Judaism, traveled to Egypt to begin documenting a trove of Jewish manuscripts ...

As the collections of Sir Moses Montefiore and David Solomon Sassoon go under the hammer today, what’s the future for rare books and historic artifacts in the age of generative AI? Fifteen hundred ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, ...

The University of Cambridge posted online thousands of pages from fragile religious manuscripts. One of the documents scanned and uploaded to the Cambridge Digital Library is the Nash Papyrus, a 2,000 ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Researchers in Israel are hoping to make new discoveries about Jewish history by loading a digital database of manuscripts stretching back a thousand years into a new ...

Just days before Jews around the world gather with their families and friends to read the Haggadah as part of the Passover holiday, one family of reunited Holocaust survivors filed a lawsuit to ...

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