Research fellow, Dr. Oded Cohen, reports back from PIMo second annual conference

Dr. Oded Cohen, HCMH’s research fellow, participated in the PIMo (People in Motion) second annual conference at the University of Granada on January 28-29, 2021. The theme of the conference was Paper: Material and Semiotic Mobility across the Global Mediterranean. In his lecture titled “’For this Wisdom has been Hidden for Many Years’: Rare Manuscripts and Printed Books in the Transition between The Land of Israel and Amsterdam” he discussed the cultural encounter between a Jewish wanderer from Hebron to the Spanish-Portuguese Jewish community in Amsterdam through a textual examination of two Hebrew books printed in Amsterdam in 1765.