Now digitized and freely available in open access:
“Histoire des Juifs de Turquie” in 9 volumes by Avram Galanti.
The work compiles all of the Turkish author’s important French-language writings on Jewish life … Read more
Now in our holdings: Tövrat – the first translation of the Torah from Hebrew to Azerbaijani.
The edition by Teymur Sadıqov provides a direct comparison between Azerbaijani and the original in Hebrew.… Read more
This reading primer in the spoken language of the so-called “Mountain Jews” was published in Baku in 1926 as part of a Soviet campaign to alphabetize the nationalities of the USSR … Read more
New as Open Access on MENAdoc: 3 books on developments in the MENA region published in 1915 give an insight into the German perspective during the First World War.
The Center for the Studies of Manuscripts at Hamburg University is hosting a conference on ‘Manuscripts East and West – Towards Comparative and General Codicology‘ from 17-19 October 2017. You can find the full programme here.… Read more
The Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg is hosting a conference on ‘Faith and Truth in Judaism, Christianity and Islam‘ from 27-29 September 2017. You can find the full programme here.… Read more
The Association Essaouira Mogador is hosting a conference on ‘Islam and Modernity‘ on 14 September 2017. The Programme is available here.… Read more