Tag: digital tools
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How to Be a Book-Loving Minimalist
I’m not a hardcore minimalist (like, I own things), but I’m very drawn to minimalism: white walls, matchy pantry containers, capsule wardrobe, that sort of thing. As you might imagine, this does not jibe particularly well with being a bookworm, especially an Orthodox Jewish one who does lots of reading over Shabbat. But yes, I […]
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How to Access Jewish Manuscripts
Updated: 27 February 2023. With so many Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts now digitized (though certainly not all), they are accessible to anyone with an internet connection. This means that anyone, not just scholars trained in codicology and paleography, can peek at these treasures and learn from them. As a medievalist, though not one who primarily […]
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Where to Find Jewish Texts Online
We’re living in an amazing, if transitional, age of Jewish text digitization and the leaps forward in access, search, and reading tools are available to all. Open-Access Text Repositories AlHaTorah.org — I’m a big fan of this always-growing and fully open-access repository of classical texts, and, notably, artworks. The reading interface for the Hebrew texts […]