{"id":279,"date":"2012-09-16T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=279"},"modified":"2012-09-16T21:00:40","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T20:00:40","slug":"historic-record-of-jewish-festivals-at-new-college-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/09\/16\/historic-record-of-jewish-festivals-at-new-college-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic record of Jewish festivals at New College Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s September 16 and the beginning of<strong> Rosh Hashanah<\/strong>,\u00a0 the Jewish New Year festival. Rosh Hashanah customs include sounding the shofar, or ram&#8217;s horn trumpet, and eating apples dipped in honey &#8211; a symbol of the wish for a sweet new year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/08\/dal-chr-14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-358\" title=\"Dal Chr 14\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/08\/dal-chr-14.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/08\/dal-chr-14.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/08\/dal-chr-14-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New College Library holds an interesting volume of\u00a0 prayers and devotions for Ashkenazi Jewish festivals,\u00a0 <em>Mah\u0323zor h\u0323elek\u0323 rishon, <\/em>published c. 1699\u00a0 in Sulzbach\u00a0 in the Rhineland where medieval Jewish communities settled. The book still has some of its original brass studs and brass clasps intact.<\/p>\n<p>This book is part of the Dalman-Christie collection of Hebrew books, which was recently catalogued as part of the Funk Cataloguing Projects at New College Library.\u00a0 The Dalman-Christie Collection was transferred to New College Library in 1946 from the Church of Scotland Hospice in Jerusalem. With thanks to our Hebrew Cataloguer, Janice Gailani, for sharing details of this item.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_357\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/08\/dal-chr-14tp.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-357\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-357\" title=\"Dal-Chr 14\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/08\/dal-chr-14tp.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/08\/dal-chr-14tp.jpg 534w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/08\/dal-chr-14tp-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mah\u0323zor h\u0323elek\u0323 rishon [1699] New College Library Dal-Chr 14<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s September 16 and the beginning of Rosh Hashanah,\u00a0 the Jewish New Year festival. Rosh Hashanah customs include sounding the shofar, or ram&#8217;s horn trumpet, and eating apples dipped in honey &#8211; a symbol of the wish for a sweet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/09\/16\/historic-record-of-jewish-festivals-at-new-college-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[46,51,78,82,106,107,112,131,154,157,167,171],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-4v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}