Michelle Margolis

@mmargolis.bsky.social

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N.E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia. Lover of old & worn early printed books/manuscripts & the stories they tell in the margins. Co-director, Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place. #dhjewish 🟦

Printed title page of a book with a vegetal woodcut frame and text inside
Handwritten text in a book
Hebrew text including micrography
Man lying on the ground next to/under a grave reading (in Hebrew) Yehezkel Chagall, with a Jewish star on the top and a bush (?) behind it.
Decorative carpet page made from words (micrography)
Red and black text of a play in Hebrew and Italian
List of names of graduates in 1774
Model for HEROD as Produced...
Manuscript illustration of a hand with letters and text on it
Portion of a map with a list of terms and a key in various shapes and colors
Photo of Hebrew matrices
Torah scroll, c. 17th century.
Painting of two men in a print shop, one sitting, in colorful yellow and red clothing, one standing, in black, handing the seated man a book. Printing press on the right.
Two mirrored blocks of wood and paper in the form of an open book
Manuscript in Hebrew characters with tables
Page with Hebrew text in the center and Roman character annotations on the side.
Old binding with English and Hebrew words
Title page in Ladino with a decorated border showing Moses and Aaron and the ten commandments
Printed book with extensive annotations
Title page with columns
Torah scroll inside a wooden case, on a table with other books.
Tiny book with "Joods Calen. 1708" written in cursive on the cover