IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1021: Jewish Craftspeople and Their Material Evidence, I: Writing, Illuminating, and Binding Books
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Maria Stürzebecher, Kulturdirektion, Landeshauptstadt Erfurt |
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Moderator/Chair: | Julie Harris, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Chicago |
Paper 1021-a | The Leather Cut-Book Binding Technique and Meir Jaffe (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1021-b | From Material to Sound: The Craft of Storytelling in the Medieval Haggadah (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Paper 1021-c | The Work of a Scribe as a Craft and the Materials Used (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Liturgy, Manuscripts and Palaeography |
Abstract | Recent research showed there is more evidence for Jewish craftspeople in medieval Europe than previous studies assumed. Jews worked in different professions - not only within their community - and hence with a wide range of materials: ritual pure parchment was needed to create Torah scrolls and codices for the synagogue service, shofarot were made by ram's horns and goldsmiths handled precious materials like gold, silver or pearls. The sessions will focus on this wide range of topics from an interdisciplinary approach and discuss questions about legal conditions, ritual requirements and interactions with the Christian environment. |