In Conversation with Karen Garfen

Caren has established an international reputation for her accessible yet challenging art.  In 2019, she began examining the shattering rise in global antisemitism. Her approach is to make sense of our complex and problematic world. Caren’s work features prominently in the Lancashire Textile Biennale, currently on display at the Whitaker Museum...

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The Centre for Jewish Studies Moses Gaster Seminars

Jewish Studies. This academic year (2021-22) the John Rylands Research Institute will complete the online cataloguing of the codices in Hebrew script in the Rylands Library Manchester. Most of these manuscripts once belonged to Moses Gaster, who, with modest resources, assembled one of the most remarkable collections of Hebrew manuscripts of the 20th...

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The Centre for Jewish Studies Moses Gaster Seminars

Jewish Studies. This academic year (2021-22) the John Rylands Research Institute will complete the online cataloguing of the codices in Hebrew script in the Rylands Library Manchester. Most of these manuscripts once belonged to Moses Gaster, who, with modest resources, assembled one of the most remarkable collections of Hebrew manuscripts of the 20th...

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