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Professor Judith Olszowy-Schlanger will present a new digital tool HebrewPal (Hebrew Palaeography Album) developed for the study of the script of medieval Hebrew manuscripts, documents, and inscriptions. Created as a collaboration between Oxford University, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, and a research cluster SAPRAT (Savoirs et pratiques du moyen âge à l'époque contemporaine) of the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL (Paris), HebrewPal is a pioneering Hebrew script database. It follows an original palaeographical approach developed by Professor Schlanger. The analysis of the script is carried out from the global view of the script sample, through the study of individual words and letters to the details of the components of every letter. The method supports detailed description and analysis of the letters of the Hebrew alphabets and other elements of writing and decoration, as well as the ability to store and retrieve images and metadata information with ease.
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Online Lecture Series presents regularly scheduled lectures related to the study of premodern manuscript books and global manuscript culture.
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger is the Director of the Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and Professor of Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic Manuscript Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris, France. She directs Books within Books: Hebrew Fragments in European Libraries, a project to locate, digitize and describe fragments of medieval Hebrew manuscripts reused in the bindings of other books and notarial files. Among her over one hundred publications are Karaite Marriage Documents from the Cairo Geniza: Legal Tradition and Community Life in Mediaeval Egypt and Palestine (1998), Les manuscrits hébreux dans l’Angleterre médiévale : étude historique et paléographique (2003), Dictionnaire hébreu-latin-français de la Bible hébraïque de l'Abbaye de Ramsey (XIIIe s.) (2008), Hebrew and Hebrew-Latin Documents from Medieval England: A Diplomatic and Palaeographical Study (2015), Books within Books: New Discoveries in Old Bookbindings (2014).
