That's So Medieval Podcast @thatssomedieval.bsky.social A twelve episode series funded by Fordham's Center on Religion and Culture in which Ph.D. candidate Benjamin Bertrand tries to find the connections between the medieval Church and the modern world. New episodes release on Wednesdays.
Martin-Buber-Institut für Judaistik @mbikoeln.bsky.social Willkommen auf dem Bluesky-Kanal vom MBI! Hier posten wir über Neuigkeiten und Veranstaltungen rund um die Jüdischen Studien an der Uni Köln.
https://judaistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/
Gene Matanky @edmatanky.bsky.social 🎓 Post-doc @Harvard & @HebrewU ● 📜 Early Modern History | Jewish Mysticism | #BookHistory | #ManuscriptStudies ● 🔍 Professional hunter of watermarks, messy marginalia & and the ghosts people leave behind ● ✨ Collecting human traces, one book at a time.
Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and work on text and exile
@aharonium@kosmos.social @aharonium.bsky.social Community Planner, AICP. Shammes for the @opensiddur Project. Concerned w/ shared systems/spaces/structures for recreation/re-creation and kind practices that encourage the maturation of emotional intelligence through curiosity, compassion, and creativity
Seth Kimmel @skimmel.bsky.social Associate Professor of early modern cultural studies in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures at Columbia University. Living in Seville for the 2024-25 academic year.
Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social Traditional-egalitarian neo-misnagdic liturgical maximalist. Yes, I'm the one who made that steamed hams megillah. איהו/ליה (that’s he/him in Aramaic)
@jeremiah-mercurio.bsky.social @jeremiah-mercurio.bsky.social 
UCL Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection @uclhjslibrary.bsky.social Posts about the Hebrew and Jewish Studies collection in UCL Libraries, including news and info about print and electronic resources, useful websites, etc. https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish-studies
Sidra Collaborative @sidracollaborative.bsky.social Sidra Collaborative partners with arts, culture, and humanities organizations and funders to build sustainable programs and reimagine a funding landscape that centers transparency, equity, and community.
www.sidracollaborative.com
TTU Book History and Digital Humanities @ttubhdh.bsky.social graduate certificate in Book History and Digital Humanities in the English Department at Texas Tech University
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/programs_degrees/grad_certificates/book_history/index.php
Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social Israeli. Author: The Wrong Kind of Jew. Son of Amazigh + Iraqi Jewish refugees. Founder The Tel Aviv Institute. Seen/Words: NY Times, LA Times, CNN, NBC, BBC, Sky & more.. 🏳️🌈🇮🇱🕊️
Ray Clemens @rayclemens.bsky.social Medievalist: retired curator of early books and manuscripts (Beinecke Library, Yale University), Latin Paleography, Middle English Paleography, Book History, Hagiography.
The Jewish Quarterly Review @thejqr.bsky.social Publishing top scholarship in Judaic studies for over a century, now in open access. Find our archives on JSTOR and recent issues on Project Muse.
Pratima @ismipratima.bsky.social historian | indian ocean & geniza | amateur potter
Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social Here for the humanities.
Grant maker, union organizer, former federal worker, digital humanist. Writing about labor, careers, higher education, and technology. Founder @sidracollaborative.
east tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands
halperta.com
Professor Gilly Carr OBE @gillycarr.bsky.social Conflict archaeologist, historian, Holocaust heritage expert, IHRA delegate, and Cambridge professor. All posts are my own and not necessarily institutional opinions.
https://www.pace.cam.ac.uk/professor-gilly-carr
💾 SIGCIS Conference @sigcisconf.bsky.social Annual Conference of the Special Interest Group in Computing, Information, and Society of SHOT. SIGCIS 2025: Power Surge will take place virtually on Sept 25-27. See details and CFP here: https://meetings.sigcis.org/
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
🤓 Supporting global, early career, and BIPOC scholars
🪢 Facilitating bookish community
sharpweb.org
The Haskins Society @haskinssociety.bsky.social International scholarly society studying the peoples of early & high medieval Europe & their encounters in the Mediterranean, Baltic & larger medieval world.
https://thehaskinssociety.wildapricot.org/
Teaching the Codex @teachingcodex.bsky.social Pedagogical approaches to palaeography, codicology, and early print. Organisers: Mary Boyle (@maryrboyle.bsky.social), Tristan Franklinos, Jessica Rahardjo, Seb Dows-Miller (@sebdm.bsky.social)
Borders, Boundaries, Barriers Conference @bordersboundaries.bsky.social Borders, Boundaries, Barriers: Real and Imagined in the Middle Ages (Rewley House, 20-21 April 2026)
Registration open early October: https://buytickets.at/bordersboundariesandbarriers/1842029
The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social The home for American book people, studying text objects together since 1904. More info at linktr.ee/bibsocamer.
Harvey Sukenic @hsukenic.bsky.social Judaic librarian, Israeli folk dancer
Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies @katzcenterupenn.bsky.social The University of Pennsylvania's research center for the study of Jewish civilization —linking scholars to scholars, researchers to resources, and ideas to the wider world.
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Josef Beery @josefbeery.bsky.social Printmaker, educator, creator of BookBeetle Press.
@provenance-updates.bsky.social @provenance-updates.bsky.social News, resources, and discussions on provenance research.
Neuigkeiten, Ressourcen und Diskussionen zur Provenienzforschung.
Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social Official account of the world’s largest library. Explore collections & plan a visit. All Library accounts: https://loc.gov/connect
Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social Just+joyful, critical+creative tech+culture+craft ✨💻📚🏳️🌈 not fascist shit tho
🎨Letterpress, zine, #DHmakes
Pro-human bookish code/data
Experimental/DH/art futures
Dr! 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🎓🦮@ScholarsLab Director
🌈 3 ! in a hoodie ⚖️ Abolition
Art: WolfproofPress.com
plundered art @plunderedart.bsky.social Since 1997, HARP researches and documents the history of Nazi looted art and seeks justice for the rightful owners. Active in America and Europe. Since 2016, HARP has broadened its scope because cultural plunder is a crime against culture and humanity.
Emily Löffler @emilyloeffler.bsky.social Provenance Researcher @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social. Opinions are my own.
Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social Early modern historian ☞ Archive dweller, book lover, coffee-addict ☞ Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) ☞ Edition: Letters of Suriano, the first Venetian ambassador in The Dutch Republic (1616-1623)
Provenance Lab @provenancelab.bsky.social
Toward #ComputationalProvenance.
We are the Provenance Lab @leuphana.bsky.social.
Find out more about the Lab: https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/ipk/provenance-lab.html
In geveb @ingeveb.bsky.social A Journal of Yiddish Studies 🦚(www.ingeveb.org)
Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social Professor in Long Beach, CA. She/her. Early modern women writers, drama, and book history. Blogs on early modern women. Opinions my own (of course)
bio.site/martinevanelk
https://hcommons.org/members/martinevanelk/
https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.w
@emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social 
ACH @ach.bsky.social Association for Computers and the Humanities, the US-based professional society for the digital humanities. #digitalhumanities
COST Action 23137: PCPSce @pcpsce.bsky.social Welcome to the official page for COST Action 23137:
Print Culture and Public Spheres in Central Europe (1500-1800)
Dr. Andrea Gondos @andigon.bsky.social avid explorer of "such stuff as dreams are made of" – kabbalah, magic, and the esoteric
SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).
Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
HathiTrust @hathitrust.bsky.social A not-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving and providing access to 19+ million digitized items in the HathiTrust Digital Library. Discover how we serve libraries and the academic community at www.hathitrust.org
Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social UVA's Library research center+community lab for practicing interdisciplinary+experimental scholarship around creative+critical tech—informed by digital humanities, spatial tech, SJ, & more
💜🏳️🌈 People > projects.
📚💻 Research blog & more at ScholarsLab.org!
Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social Rare Book School is a non-profit institute located in Charlottesville, VA, that provides advocacy, education, and outreach for the study, care, and uses of written, printed, and born-digital materials.
rarebookschool.org
Tangle News @tanglenews.bsky.social An independent, nonpartisan politics newsletter delivered straight into your inbox. Get 360 degree coverage on one major issue each day — read what both the left and right are thinking and then make up your own mind. Sign up for free at readtangle.com
Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
Mattie @mattiet650.bsky.social Director of a California rare books/spec coll library. Archivist. Keeper of the gems I am.
Digital Scriptorium @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social Digital Scriptorium (DS) is a consortium of North American institutions with collections of global premodern manuscripts, building an online national union catalog developed on Linked Open Data technologies and practices. https://digital-scriptorium.org
Penn Material Texts @pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social Workshop in the History of Material Texts @upenn.edu / founded by Peter Stallybrass in 1993, now directed by @zacharylesser.bsky.social, John Pollack, and Jerry Singerman / Mondays, 5:15pm / in person in the Kislak Center, and on Zoom / All welcome
The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social Stories of a forgotten London subculture with Prof Nadia Valman and Dr Vivi Lachs.
cockneyyiddish.org
Supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council.
BEST CULTURE PODCAST, Independent Podcast Awards 2025
BEST INDIE PODCAST, Silver
Lovies Award 2025
Alona Bach @bachwards.bsky.social Archive haunter (where history of technology + Yiddish meet); theater-maker; rogue illustrator. Current postdoc @ Tenement Museum; PhD from MIT History/HASTS.
she/her | 📷: Der praktisher elektrotekhniker (1925)
Berman Archive at Stanford @bermanarchive.bsky.social The Berman Archive documents American Jewish Communities. We’re the largest archive of the printed material of communal American Jewish life.
Website: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/
Documensch Daily: https://bermanarchive.stanford.edu/documensch
Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social Archives, life writing, history. Research focus: slavery & dependency; record-keeping & archives; Caribbean Jewish history; digital humanities. https://hcommons.org/members/amaliasl/ and https://heritedge.org/
Iris Idelson-shein @iriside.bsky.social Literary historian of early modern European Jews. Particularly interested in Old Yiddish, gender, and translation.
Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social Research: Micro archive of Werner Weissenberg.
Designer & editor: the Kitchener Camp Project & the Leave to Land exhibition
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/kitchener-camp-sandwich-kent-german-jews-haven
Www.fromnumberstonames.com
Yiddish Book Center @yiddishbookcenter.bsky.social The Yiddish Book Center recovers, preserves, teaches, and celebrates Yiddish literature and culture to advance a fuller understanding of Jewish history and identity. 
@ochjs.bsky.social @ochjs.bsky.social 
Farbindungen Yiddish Studies Conference @farbindungen.bsky.social An annual Yiddish studies conference for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and early career professionals.
www.farbindungen.com
See our 2026 call for papers and submit at: https://bit.ly/Farbindungen26Submission
Dr Svenja Bethke @svenjabethke.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern European History ⎜Holocaust, Jewish history, migration, fashion & visual culture - author of 'Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos' (UTP 2021) ⎜AHRC-funded project on Dress and Migration
Jim Neal @jimneal.bsky.social University Librarian Emeritus at Columbia University. All things: libraries, technology, copyright, intellectual freedom, leadership, music, theater, museums, nature. Citizen of the world.
Atla @youratla.bsky.social *Collectors and Connectors in Religion & Theology*
Advancing the work of libraries & librarians worldwide
www.atla.com
Transkribus @transkribus.bsky.social The AI-powered platform for unlocking history.
www.transkribus.org
Shai Gordin @shgordin.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Assyriology and Digital Humanities at #DigitalPastsLab. Interested in NLP for ancient languages, History of the ANE, Human-machine coop and LOD #questseeker
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @wsguk.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary international group promoting the study of women and gender in the early modern period and long eighteenth century.
https://womensstudiesgroup.org/
Seminars | Workshops | Outings | Bursary Scheme | Mentoring | Newsletter | Reading Group
Skeuomorph Press & BookLab @skeuomorphpress.org An experiential research & pedagogy studio for the history & art of the book at UIUC. We are housed in the CU Community FabLab & sponsored by the iSchool and English Department. Directed by @ryancordell.org
DHJewish Project @dhjewish.bsky.social The #DHJewish website aggregates news, events, projects + more about #JewishStudies and #DigitalHumanities. Eds by @gerbenzaagsma.bsky.social and @mmargolis.bsky.social. Hosted by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH).
Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social Account for the Early Modern Digital Itineraries Project, transforming printed itineraries into tools for understanding the history of travel 🧭 Find out more at https://emdigit.org
Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) @csmc-hamburg.bsky.social Cross-disciplinary research on written artefacts – from all periods and regions of the world @uni-hamburg.de. Home to the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts. https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/
Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
Stefan Leicht @sutzkever.bsky.social Curator of yiddish exhibitions, philosopher, librarian.
Footprints @footprints-heb.bsky.social Tracking the movement of early printed Jewish books through time and place
footprints.ctl.columbia.edu
Haim Gottschalk @hgot.bsky.social I am a Hebraica-Judaica Cataloging Librarian, cataloging across the board in subjects and classification, ranging from 15th cen. through newest publications.
Stanford Jewish Studies @stanfordtaube.bsky.social The Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford offers an interdisciplinary program for the study & understanding of Jewish cultures, literatures, languages, religion, politics & history.
S Block @ilanblock.bsky.social Artist, ilanblock.com, https://www.deviantart.com/silanblock/gallery
i also do commissions
EHRI @ehri-project.eu European Holocaust Research Infrastructure for trans-national Holocaust research, commemoration and education. Tackling the wide dispersal of sources and expertise across Europe and beyond.
Leo Baeck College @leobaeckcollege.bsky.social Centre of excellence for Rabbinic training and Jewish learning.
lbc.ac.uk
Also:
https://www.facebook.com/LeoBaeckCollege
https://www.instagram.com/leo_baeck_college/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/leo-baeck-college
JHSE New Generation Group @newgenerationgroup.bsky.social An international group of early career scholars interested in #JewishStudies and #JewishHistory. Proud to be part of the Jewish Historical Society of England.
Contact us via jhse.ngg@gmail.com and join our mailing list: https://www.jhse.org/general-9
IHR Jewish History Seminar @ihrjewishhistory.bsky.social London, UK
Hidden Treasures @seethetreasures.bsky.social Celebrating archives across the UK telling the story of Jews and the Jewish community in Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man. https://linktr.ee/jewishhiddentreasures
EHRI-UK @ehri-uk.bsky.social The UK national node of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure @ehri-eu.bsky.social
Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social Founded in 1893, the JHSE is the oldest learned society of its kind in Europe. Today, we support a vibrant, global community of people interested in the rich history of Jewish life throughout the English-speaking world.
Stewart J. Brookes @stewartbrookes.bsky.social Cataloguing medieval manuscripts @bodleianlibs| Co-director of Models of Authority: http://www.modelsofauthority.ac.uk | working on Archetype 3.0 | F-shaped "y" is where it's at!
@lransom.bsky.social @lransom.bsky.social 
Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social The Religious Archives Group (RAG) is a voluntary organization supporting the archives of all faith communities in the UK, including those of secularist organizations.
https://religiousarchivesgroup.org.uk
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies @biajs.bsky.social to nurture, cultivate and advance the teaching and research in Jewish culture and history in all its aspects within Higher Education in the British Isles
https://bajsbulletin.wpcomstaging.com
Elissa Bemporad @elissabemporad.bsky.social Historian of all things Jewish/Soviet/Ukrainian/Russian/Yiddish. Author of Legacy of Blood. ✍️Writing the biography of the great Ester Frumkin. I’m a feminist, and can’t live without Parmigiano and tennis.
BookstoreChronicles @bkstore-chronicles.bsky.social Booksellers sell stories; they rarely tell their own. This project aims to preserve their legacy.
Sign up for online interview: https://bit.ly/4a0Erbi
Sign up for in-person interview at Wi25 in Denver: https://bit.ly/4gTlWIB
www.bookstorechronicles.org
AaronM @aaronm.bsky.social I dissect calendars in Books of Hours and keep a close eye on the Vatican Library, sometimes in that order.
https://www.cokldb.org/
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/
Ben Brumfield @benwbrum.bsky.social Open Source #DigitalHumanities software engineer.
Founder of FromThePage.com, a platform for collaborative #manuscript #transcription to engage the public in #archives and create digital scholarly editions.
Facts & Files @factsandfiles.bsky.social Historians in Berlin.
Established in 1999. Our motto is: Think History!
www.factsandfiles.com
#History #Archives #Provenanceresearch
Sam Helmick @samhelmick.bsky.social 5k-er. American Library Association President. Author. Baker. Christian. #FreePeopleReadFreely. LEGO lover. #Library Worker. Policy Wonk. #ThoughtBunny Wrangler. 🐇
Sietske van der Veen @sbvanderveen.bsky.social Postdoc & Lecturer in Jewish History at University of Amsterdam
https://linktr.ee/sietskevanderveen
Simcha Gross @simchagross.bsky.social Associate Professor of Ancient Jewish History, UPenn
https://upenn.academia.edu/SimchaGross
Association for Jewish Studies @jewishstudies.bsky.social The AJS is a learned society whose mission is to advance research and teaching in Jewish Studies at colleges, universities, and other institutions of higher learning, and to foster greater understanding of Jewish Studies scholarship among the wider public.
Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social Historian, ex-Hampshire College, Amherst MA
Europe C18-20, book history, historic preservation
Past service: SHARP sharpweb.org, Massachusetts Center for Book https://www.massbook.org/
Co-editor, Routledge History of Antisemitism
http://tiny.cc/pb7xzz