Contributing Scholars

Leila Avrin

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Barcelona Haggadah

Malachi Beit-Arié

Ludwig Jesselson Professor of Codicology and Palaeography
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Barcelona Haggadah
Parma Psalter
Perek Shirah
North French Miscellany
Rothschild Miscellany

Shlomo Ben-Ami

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel

Alba Bible

Evelyn Cohen

Art Historian, Specialist in medieval and Renaissance illuminated Hebrew manuscripts

Barcelona Haggadah

Aliza Cohen-Mushlin

Director
The Center for Jewish Art, Jerusalem

Kennicott Bible

Binyamin Elizur

Emeritus Head of the Ancient Literature Section at the Historical Dictionary Project of the Academy of the Hebrew Language

Rothschild Miscellany

Sonia Fellous Rozenblat

CNRS

Professor of Jewish Art, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)

Professor of Jewish Art, Sorbonne, Paris

Alba Bible

Iris Fishof

Chief Curator of Judaica & Jewish Ethnography
Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Meah Berachot
Rothschild Miscellany

Mirjam Foot

Director of Collections and Preservation at The British Library

Rothschild Miscellany

Michel Garel

Former Conservateur en Chef des Manuscrits Hébreux
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France

North French Miscellany

Dalia-Ruth Halperin

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Art, Talpiot College of Education, Holon, Israel

Catalan Mahzor

Adriaan Keller

Doctoral Researcher (Codicology & Palaeography), Leiden University

Alba Bible

Moshe Lazar

Professor of Comparative Literature
UCLA

Alba Bible

Raphael Loewe

Goldsmid Professor of Hebrew Emeritus
University College London

Barcelona Haggadah
North French Miscellany
Rothschild Haggadah
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Angus McKay

Professor of Medieval Spanish History
University of Edinburgh

Alba Bible


Thérèse Metzger

Doctorat ès lettres et sciences humaines

Former Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Parma Psalter

Luisella Mortara-Ottolenghi

CNRS

Professor of Jewish Art, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO)

Professor of Jewish Art, Sorbonne, Paris

Rothschild Miscellany

Bezalel Narkiss

Founder of The Center for Jewish Art, Jerusalem

Kennicott Bible

Menahem Schmelzer

Emeritus Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature, Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Barcelona Haggadah

Jeremy Schonfield

Professor of Liturgy, Leo Baeck College, London; Supernumerary Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.

Alba Bible
Barcelona Haggadah
Meah Berachot
Megillat Esther
Moshal Haggadah
North French Miscellany
Parma Psalter
Rothschild Miscellany

Emile Schrijver

General Director of the Jewish Historical Museum and the Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam, Professor of Jewish Book History at the University of Amsterdam. Specialist in 18th century Hebrew manuscripts and printed books

Esther
Megillat Esther
Moshal Haggadah
Perek Shirah
Ruth
Song of Songs

Shlomo Simonsohn

Professor of Jewish History
Tel-Aviv University

Rothschild Miscellany

Ilana Tahan

Lead Curator Hebrew and Christian Orient Studies

North French Miscellany

Israel Ta-Shma

Professor of Jewish History
Tel-Aviv University

Rothschild Miscellany

Falk Wiesemann

Professor of Modern History at the Heinrich Heine University, specialist in German Jewish history and folk art

Megillat Esther

Yael Zirlin

Specialist in medieval illuminated Hebrew manuscripts and Jewish art

North French Miscellany

Diana Rowland-Smith

Curator at The British Library

Barcelona Haggadah
North French Miscellany

Emmanuel Silver

Formerly of The British Library

Parma Psalter