Complete Sephardi Mahzor for High Holidays, "The House of the Wealthy Man, Uri Halevi". Printed in Amsterdam, 1679. #RoshHashanah (Congregration Shaar Hashomayim, Museum and Archives)

1/ This 1898 Rosh Hashanah card at first glance seems beautiful, though small. But when unfurled, it is packed with unbelievable gems, including a mosaic of delegates to the 2nd Zionist Congress in Basel A 🧵on the wonderful finds inside this card #RoshHashanah

Our digital exhibit, "100 Years of the Shaar in Westmount" has been live for a few months now and is packed with lots of incredible gems to discover. Have you had a chance to explore it yet? www.communitystories.ca/v2/century-s...

Maya Arad's "Happy New Years"—her first full-length novel to be translated into English (trans. Jessica Cohen)—is not just timely read as we near Rosh Hashanah, but also excellent and moving. Read my review in @thecjn.bsky.social @newvesselpress.bsky.social thecjn.ca/arts-culture...

1929 and 1924 pamphlets for special consecration services for girls. These were published by the office of Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, offering a fascinating glimpse into the early evolution of what would eventually (much later) become the bat mitzvah

✨Help me find Expo 67 historical material✨ I'm looking for a film "Expo 67—Pavilion of Judaism: A view of the Ages" script by Moses Rowell. It was listed in a 1968 Eternal Lights Kinescopes catalogue. The Shaar archives is interested in finding this for an upcoming project!

Leonard Cohen's birth announcement in the Shaar Hashomayim bulletin (September 28, 1934 issue). Simply identified as "the gift of a son" to Mr. And Mrs. Nathan B. Cohen, as the bulletin would've gone to print before he had his Brit Milah! #LeonardCohen

This was SUCH fun session and a true pleasure to moderate

#AJLCon25 I attended and presented at the IJ Section update. This session presents the highlights of the past year at LC, especially as it pertains to Hebraica and Judaica. @jewishlibraries.bsky.social

Currently learning about the Virtual Tribunals Initiative at Stanford: exhibits.stanford.edu/virtual-trib... #AJLCon25 (includes records from the Nuremberg trails)

So many great recommendations in the session on recent and forthcoming Jewish children's and young adult books! Thanks Heidi, Rebecca, and Talya! #AJLCon25

University Yiddish Library now online! www.universalyiddishlibrary.org/en/ #AJLCon25

Also, the VERY COOL geo-search of the NLI's digital collections (including KTIV, I believe, so includes other institutions' holdings as well) now has a landing page (so I guess that's official too :) ) www.nli.org.il/en/research-... #AJLCon25

Fascinating Shirley Epstein Keynote Address on the Australian Jewish Historical Society by AJHS archivist Sabrina Elias and interns Ailish Schneider, Anna Paradise, and Molly Hayes. A Yiddish-speaking nun and an early feminist riding an ostrich had supporting roles. #AJLCon25

We begin Session 1A: Global Jewish Archives I! First up is Esthy Klein, the Library Director at Har Etzion Yeshiva and Herzog College on the integrated Yeshiva-College Library. The library has over 100k+ volumes and one of the largest in Israel! #AJLCon25

#AJLCon25 is off to start!! My absolute favourite week of the year, looking forward to all the amazing sessions, and hearing from all my @jewishlibraries.bsky.social friends and colleagues

#AJLCon25 starts today, with a full schedule of sessions and meetings. We are so glad to see friends old and new!

If you are going to the always excellent AJL Digital Conference this week, I will be on a panel of editors on Wednsday at 1pm. Hope you can joing us for "People of the Book...Review" "Join representatives from the Horn Book, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal and AJL News & Reviews…”

📢I am pleased to share Montreal's Shaar Hashomayim Museum and Archives is launching a bilingual digital exhibit celebrating the history of the synagogue through its collections, offering a glimpse into one of Canada's most historic Jewish institutions www.communitystories.ca/v2/century-s...

We have an amazing schedule for this year's @jewishlibraries.bsky.social conference packed with fascinating sessions! You don't have to be a librarian to attend, lovers of Jewish libraries, books, and more are welcome too! #AJLCon25

We're launching something really exciting this week at the Shaar Hashomayim Museum & Archives. It's a project we've been working on for 2 years and are excited to finally be able to share it. Watch this space for more for more info 👀

What an incredible experience at the Paleography and Provenance in Printed Hebraica seminar @uoft.bsky.social @fisherlibrary.bsky.social, my sincerest thanks to the instructors and organizers. I can't wait to put these new skills to work with the Shaar's collection!

When things are rough, there is nothing quite so healing as spending a couple of days immersed in old books, @footprints-heb.bsky.social, and wonderful, smart people. 10/10 would recommend.

Welcome to the archives.

For the first time since 2020, I am back at @uoft.bsky.social for the summer seminar series at @fisherlibrary.bsky.social on Paleography and Provenance in Printed Hebraica. Lots of intensive, incredible learning, grateful for the opportunity to come back to my old campus 😁

Hello Bluesky! It's been a minute! After a year off for maternity leave, I'm back at it at the Shaar Hashomayim, Museum & Archives 🇨🇦. Lots of exciting things coming up which I can't wait to share! 📷 Shaar Hashomayim banquet honouring Solomon Schechter, Jan 1, 1908

Applications are now open for high school, undergraduate and graduate students: www.sephardicbrotherhood.com/scholarships

Want to learn more about our exciting new online archive? On 5 February we're joined by guest speakers for an online launch event to discuss this incredible project and introduce you to the unique digitised collections now available to researchers around the world. Sign up:

My friend Claire Sigal is giving a talk for @McGill_Rare on the Joe Fishstein Collection of Yiddish Poetry, which her grandmother originally catalogued. Claire herself is a talented Judaica librarian. Join in person or online on February 19th at 4pm EST www.mcgill.ca/library/chan...

Mazal tov to the 2025 winners of the Sydney Taylor Book Award! Picture Book: An Etrog from Across the Sea by Deborah Bodin Cohen and Kerry Olitzky, illustrated by Stacey Dressen McQueen, published by Kar-Ben Publishing, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group 1/3

Our ground-breaking new digital archive is now live! Visit 🔗 whlcollections.org

Great thread/link on issues faced by archivists when cataloging Holocaust-related material, and using sensitive terminology #HolocaustMemorialDay

Announced today at the American Library Association - Youth Media Award ceremony! Congratulations to this years @jewishlibraries.bsky.social Sydney Taylor Award winners.

Poetic description of information in an archival document As though a "who by fire" of archives

yivo.org/YIVO-Library... @jewishlibraries.bsky.social own Zachary Baker will be presenting on YIVO library history February 19

There's still a handful of tickets left for the online launch of this important new resource... Sign up now: wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/online...

Mazel tov to Shelly Jay Shore, whose novel, Rules for Ghosting, has been named an AJL Jewish Fiction Honor Book! More about the winning and honor books at jewishlibraries.org/jewish-ficti...

Mazel tov to Joan Leegant, whose story collection Displaced Persons was named an AJL Jewish Fiction Honor Book!

Mazel tov to Maya Arad and Jessica Cohen, author and translator The Hebrew Teacher, which has been named an AJL Jewish Fiction Honor Book! More about the winning and honor books at jewishlibraries.org/jewish-ficti...

Serving on the @jewishlibraries.bsky.social fiction award committee has been an absolute pleasure and I'm thrilled to share our 2025 fiction award winner: Ayelet Tsabari for her beautiful novel "Songs for the Brokenhearted" jewishlibraries.org/wp-content/u...

There is still time until January 31 to get your talk proposal in for AJL's Digital Conference!

Stanley Diamond's contributions to Jewish genealogy were of great impact. Anyone who has done research in Jewish genealogy knows of its unique challenges, and Stanley helped likely thousands of people understand their family trees, and increase record accessibility. He leaves a profound legacy

Did you know there was one (1) official refugee camp in the US that officially allowed in (just under 1000) Jews during WWII? Did you know that their newspaper is digitized? Well, now you know. #fortontario aka #oswego 🗃️ nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

🧵As the archivist at Montreal's Shaar Hashomayim I receive many research queries about Leonard Cohen. Last year I consulted on a book about Leonard Cohen as part of the bestselling Little People, Big Dreams series The book is fantastic and I am glad to have played a small role in it #LeonardCohen

On 14 December, 1760, the leaders of Bevis Marks Synagogue created @boardofdeputies.bsky.social to issue an address to the new King George III and deal with the most pressing issues affecting the community. Find out more here: celebratingjewisharchives.org/news_feed/hi... #JewishHistory #Archives

As the leading authority on Judaic Librarianship, @jewishlibraries.bsky.social is playing an increasingly important role in supporting Jewish and information literacy, and so, so much more. As 2024 comes to a close, please consider supporting this wonderful organization

Every week—usually Thursdays—you'll find a curated set of "Jewish Literary Links" over on My Machberet. Herewith, the latest, kicking off with a reminder that #JewishBookMonth (organized by @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social), is starting SOON! www.erikadreifus.com/2024/11/jewi...

I have some funding for incoming MA students interested in MENA Jewish history. If you know of anyone, please send them my way.

A twist in the story of the Ten Commandments inscription on auction with Sotheby’s: it was exported from Israel 20 years ago on condition that it always be available for public display. www.jta.org/2024/11/19/u...

Hi Bluesky! I'm the archivist at Shaar Hashomayim in Montreal (🇨🇦's 2nd oldest synagogue) and the VP Development for the @jewishlibraries.bsky.social. I love to talk Jewish archives, books, Canadian Jewish history, and am passionate about facilitating public engagement with archives/Jewish history 😊