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Schrijver, Professor Emile

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Position: Lecturer/Professor
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Bibliotheek van de UvA (UBA) - Universiteitsbibliotheek
Singel 425
Amsterdam
1012 WP
Netherlands

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Position: Lecturer/Professor
Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Bungehuis
Spuistraat 210-212
Amsterdam
1012 VT
Netherlands

Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:

2. History of the Jewish People: TR
12: Medieval: R
13: Early Modern: R
14: Modern: R
Palaeography: TR
Historiography: TR
21: Biographical Studies: R
6. Literature (other than Biblical and Rabbinic): R
43: Medieval (including scientific, poetry, Genizah studies): R
44: Early modern (including scientific, poetry): R
7. Languages: R
51: Hebrew: R
53: Aramaic: R
55: Yiddish: R
8. Art, Architecture and Performing Arts: R
60: Art (including iconography): R
10. Jewish Studies and Resources: TR
Bibliography: TR
Librarianship and Archives: TR
Codicology: TR
Hebrew Printing: TR
Museology: TR
85: On-line resources: R

Description

Prof. dr. Emile G.L. Schrijver (1962) is Professor of Jewish Book History and curator of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana (Special Collections) at the University of Amsterdam. He is also one of the curators of the private Braginsky Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books in Zurich, Switzerland. Schrijver is an expert of Hebrew manuscripts, in particular of the post‐medieval period, and of Jewish printing on both of which he has published and lectured extensively in Europe, Israel and North America. He has written a number of introductions to facsimile editions of Hebrew manuscripts and has published numerous auction and exhibition catalogues. Schrijver is the executive editor of an Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Culture, which is scheduled to be published by Brill Publishers of Leiden and Boston, as well as the editor-in-chief of the annual Studia Rosenthaliana, published by Peeters Publishers of Louvain, Belgium. Schrijver serves on boards and advisory committees of numerous Jewish cultural organizations in- and outside the Netherlands.

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