The book is organized in a very elaborate and arty style, with the main text in the middle, biographic information on a margin, and numerous facsimiles of the most important documents reproduced alongside the text as illustrations. It is a colourful album with number of illustrations and facsimiles, a catalogue of the unique Judaica collection, a scholarly study, an introduction to the world of medieval Jewish manuscript tradition, and a bio-bibliographic reference book at the same time. It is difficult to characterize the genre of the book in one word. Petersburg Branch of the In-stitute of Oriental Studies. The book focuses on manuscripts kept at two major academic institutions of the city: National Library of Russia and St. Petersburg (hence the title of the book). In fact, it represents the journey - in time and space - to the multifaceted and colourful world of Hebrew manuscript treasures kept in St. This is why the book under review is so important. After this the collection became virtually inaccessible not only for the Western, but also for Soviet scholars. Petersburg in his classical study in the 1930s. Jacob Mann was, perhaps, the last Western scholar who managed to use materials from St. Petersburg also had been virtually closed to academic public until the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991. As well as synagogal genizot, which have been for centuries hidden from inquisitive eye of a scholar, Jewish treasures of St. The unique collection analysed in Shimon Iakerson's book is, in fact, a sort of geniza in itself. Every scholar dealing with Jewish history knows Judaica manuscripts kept in British Library in London, Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, Bodleian library of Oxford, documents from Cairo geniza at the University library at Cambridge and some other less important collections. There are several important collections of Hebrew manuscripts in the world. We offer to your attention the review by M.Kizilov on the book: Shimon Iakerson, Evreĭskie sokrovishcha Peterburga. Review by M.Kizilov on Sh.Iakerson's book Meeting of the IOM RAS Academic Counc.Paper: A Study on the Chinese Manuscr.Paper: The Preface to the Shiwang Jin.Paper: On the Tangut Version of the A.Modern Buddhist education, historical.Monograph: Japanese antiquity (resear.
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