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Jewish Library Awareness: Texts, Books, and Libraries in Jewish Culture

Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Time: 18:00
Place: Judiska Biblioteket, Wahrendorffsgatatan 3B, Stockholm
Other: Fri entré. Föranmälan till Alexander Freudenthal

Texts have an important place in Jewish culture, and therefore also books - both sacred and secular. However, texts and books are not identical, and the lecture will explore some of the relationships between them. The theoretical concept of 'library awareness', meaning the imagined concept of the library which varies according to time and place will be used to present various models of the attitude towards books, visible and invisible, and the conceptual framework for putting them in order.

Dr. Avriel Bar-Levav is a senior lecturer at the department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies at the Open University of Israel. He is the editor of the scholarly quarterly Pe'amim : Studies in Oriental Jewry , published by the Ben- Zvi institute in Jerusalem.

In cooperation with the Great Synagogue in Stockholm.
Föranmälan till alexander.freudenthal@jfst.se