The project in 2020

2020 is expected to be the crucial year to complete this huge cataloguing project! I am still collecting and cataloguing Hebrew books all over Sicily, although I obviously had to stop researching since March because of Covid-19 pandemic.

The quarantine gave me the opportunity to revise and organize the collected material, and to start working on the final draft for the Catalogue, that should appear by the end of this year.

A summary of the first results of this research will be published soon in the journal Materia Giudaica n. XXV (September 2021) with the title “Il patrimonio bibliografico ebraico in Sicilia“. Don’t miss it!

Author: Chiara

Chiara is a PhD in Asian and African Studies from Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She's currently working on a research project aiming t cataloguing all the early Hebrew books and manuscripts kept in Sicilian libraries and archives.

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