I organised the following conference together with Joanna Weinberg. I also put together an exhibition at Christ Church College / Oxford which opened during the conference and which welcomes visitors until October 2017.
EAJS Conference
Jewish Books and their Christian Collectors
in Europe, the New World and Czarist Russia
Christ Church
Blue Boar Lecture Theatre
22-23 May 2017
Monday, 22 May
9.30 Welcome: Martyn Percy
9.35 Introduction: Jan Joosten
9.45-10.30
Saverio Campanini: New Evidence on the Formation of Francesco Zorzi’s Library in Renaissance Venice
10.30-11.15
Ilona Steimann: Forming a Hebraist “Canon” of Jewish Literature: German Hebraica Collections around 1500
COFFEE
11.45-12.30
Piet van Boxel: A Sixteenth-Century Censor and his Collection of Hebrew Books
LUNCH
14.00-14.45
Joanna Weinberg: The Library of Johann Buxtorf the Elder
14.45-15.30
Kasper van Ommen: ‘Je suis pauvre en tout, mesmement en livres’. Joseph Scaliger as a Book Collector of Hebraica
TEA
16.00-16.45
Benjamin Williams: Connections at Christ Church: Edward Pococke and his Copies of Maimonides’ Commentary on the Mishnah
16.45-18.00
Rahel Fronda: Jewish Books and their Christian Collectors: Christ Church Connections (Exhibition)
18.30 Reception: César Merchán-Hamann
19.30 DINNER
Tuesday, 23 May
9.30-10.30
Theodor Dunkelgrün and Scott Mandelbrote: Some Hebrew Collections and Collectors in the Colleges of Cambridge
10.30-11.15
Shimon Iakerson: Who Collected Hebrew Books in Czarist Russia and Why
COFFEE
11.30-12.15
Arthur Kiron: An Atlantic Hebrew Republic of Letters
12.15-13.00
Joshua Teplitsky: Encounters Beyond the Text: Christian Readers and Jewish Libraries
LUNCH