Michelle Margolis
N.E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia. Lover of old and worn early printed books/manuscripts and the stories they tell in the margins. Co-director of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place. #dhjewish
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Jewish book history
Looking for people interested in the history of the Jewish bookmaking, printing, and libraries
@altnehgov.altgov.info
Democracy DEMANDS wisdom. History cannot be undone, books cannot be unwritten, experiences cannot be ignored. Not the official @nehgov.bsky.social account, but a collective of Hercules Mulligans. #AltGov
@librarycongress.bsky.social
Official account of the world’s largest library. Explore collections & plan a visit. All Library accounts: https://loc.gov/connect
@literaturegeek.bsky.social
@ScholarsLab Director: just+joyful critical tech+culture 🏳️🌈✨💻 *SJ+experimental/DH+library futures, communities *DIY scholcom=zine/blog/code *Bookadjacent data+making Enthusiast (3 !s in a hoodie); abolitionist Dr.! (exTTprof) 🏳️⚧️They/Them AmandaVisconti.com
@plunderedart.bsky.social
researching and documenting the history of art objects and the people responsible for their misappropriation, and advocating for their restitution to rightful owners.
@ninalamal.bsky.social
Historian | Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) | #earlymodern publishing, politics, and diplomacy | The Low Countries, the Italian peninsula & the Holy Roman Empire | Archive dweller, coffee-lover, and pasta-addict
@provenancelab.bsky.social
Toward #DigitalProvenance. We are the Provenance Lab @leuphana.bsky.social. > Who: https://provenance.hypotheses.org/people > What: https://provenance.hypotheses.org/publications > Where: https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/ipk/provenance-lab.html
@martinevanelk.bsky.social
Professor in Long Beach, CA. She/her. Early modern women writers, drama, and book history. Blogs on early modern women. Opinions my own (of course) bio.site/martinevanelk https://hcommons.org/members/martinevanelk/ https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.w
@ach.bsky.social
Association for Computers and the Humanities, the US-based professional society for the digital humanities. #digitalhumanities
@pcpsce.bsky.social
Welcome to the official page for COST Action 23137: Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe (1500-1800)
@andigon.bsky.social
avid explorer of "such stuff as dreams are made of" – kabbalah, magic, and the esoteric
@sharpnews.bsky.social
An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org). Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
@hathitrust.bsky.social
A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving and providing access to 18+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. Discover how we serve libraries and the academic community at www.hathitrust.org
@scholarslab.bsky.social
UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more 💜🏳️🌈 People > projects. 📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
@rarebookschool.bsky.social
Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials. rarebookschool.org
@tanglenews.bsky.social
An independent, nonpartisan politics newsletter delivered straight into your inbox. Get 360 degree coverage on one major issue each day — read what both the left and right are thinking and then make up your own mind. Sign up for free at readtangle.com
@drdavidrundle.bsky.social
Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
@mattiet650.bsky.social
Director of a California rare books/spec coll library. Archivist. Keeper of the gems I am.
@digitalscriptorium.bsky.social
Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a consortium of North American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts, building an online national union catalog developed on Linked Open Data technologies and practices. https://digital-scriptorium.org
@pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social
Workshop in the History of Material Texts @upenn.edu / founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, now directed by @zacharylesser.bsky.social, John Pollack, and Jerry Singerman / Mondays, 5:15pm / in person in the Kislak Center, and on Zoom / All welcome
@cockneyyiddish.bsky.social
Stories of a forgotten London subculture with presenters Prof Nadia Valman and Dr Vivi Lachs. cockneyyiddish.org New episodes weekly. Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Artwork by Jeremy Richardson.
@bachwards.bsky.social
Archive haunter (where history of technology + Yiddish meet); theatre/-er-maker; rogue illustrator. Current PhD candidate in MIT's Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS). she/her
@bermanarchive.bsky.social
The Berman Archive documents American Jewish Communities. We’re the largest archive of the printed material of communal American Jewish life. Website: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/ Documensch Newsletter: https://documensch.substack.com/
@amaliasl.bsky.social
Eternal archivist in love with archives of any kind. Historian. Research focus: Caribbean Jewish history; slavery; record-keeping & archival dependencies; digital history. https://hcommons.org/members/amaliasl/
@iriside.bsky.social
Literary historian of early modern European Jews. Particularly interested in Old Yiddish, gender, and translation.
@drcweissenberg.bsky.social
Research: Micro archive of Werner Weissenberg. Designer & editor: the Kitchener Camp Project & the Leave to Land exhibition https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/kitchener-camp-sandwich-kent-german-jews-haven Www.fromnumberstonames.com
@yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social
The Yiddish Book Center recovers, preserves, teaches, and celebrates Yiddish literature and culture to advance a fuller understanding of Jewish history and identity.
@farbindungen.bsky.social
An annual Yiddish studies conference for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and early career professionals. www.farbindungen.com Register for #Farbindungen25: https://bit.ly/registerfarbindungen25
@svenjabethke.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Modern European History ⎜Holocaust, Jewish history, Palestine/Israel, migration, fashion & visual culture
@jimneal.bsky.social
University Librarian Emeritus at Columbia University. All things: libraries, technology, copyright, intellectual freedom, leadership, music, theater, museums, nature. Citizen of the world.
@youratla.bsky.social
*Collectors and Connectors in Religion & Theology* Advancing the work of libraries & librarians worldwide www.atla.com
@transkribus.bsky.social
The AI-powered platform for unlocking history. www.transkribus.org
@shgordin.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Assyriology and Digital Humanities at #DigitalPastsLab. Interested in NLP for ancient languages, History of the ANE, Human-machine coop and LOD #questseeker
@wsguk.bsky.social
Multi-disciplinary international group promoting the study of women and gender in the early modern period and long eighteenth century. https://womensstudiesgroup.org/ Seminars | Workshops | Outings | Bursary Scheme | Mentoring | Newsletter | Reading Group
@skeuomorphpress.org
An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
@dhjewish.bsky.social
The #DHJewish website aggregates news, events, projects + more about #JewishStudies and #DigitalHumanities. Eds by @gerbenzaagsma.bsky.social and @mmargolis.bsky.social. Hosted by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH).
@rmidura.bsky.social
Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
@emdigit.bsky.social
Account for the Early Modern Digital Itineraries Project, transforming printed itineraries into tools for understanding the history of travel 🧭 Find out more at https://emdigit.org
@csmc-hamburg.bsky.social
At the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures and its Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts, we conduct cross-disciplinary research on handwritten artefacts from all periods and regions of the world. https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/
@bodiesandbeing.bsky.social
The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
@footprints-heb.bsky.social
Tracking the movement of early printed Jewish books through time and place footprints.ctl.columbia.edu
@hgot.bsky.social
I am a Hebraica-Judaica Cataloging Librarian, cataloging across the board in subjects and classification, ranging from 15th cen. through newest publications.
@stanfordtaube.bsky.social
The Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford offers an interdisciplinary program for the study & understanding of Jewish cultures, literatures, languages, religion, politics & history.
@ilanblock.bsky.social
Artist, ilanblock.com, https://www.deviantart.com/silanblock/gallery i also do commissions
@ehri-project.eu
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure for trans-national Holocaust research, commemoration and education. Tackling the wide dispersal of sources and expertise across Europe and beyond.