The First Printed Edition of the Talmud (Soncino, 1484) and Late Medieval Hebrew Book Culture

Portrait of Yakov Mayer, University of Haifa

Date and Time

March 13, 2026
09:15AM - 11:00AM EDT

Location

Online, via Zoom.

Sponsor: Global Information History Workshop

Speaker: Yakov Mayer, University of Haifa


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Global Information History Workshop

Co-organised by Yuval Givon (Jerusalem), Anja-Silvia Goeing (Harvard) and Philippe Bernhard Schmid (Basel). Co-hosted by the University of Basel, Harvard University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LMU Munich and the University of Zurich.

Different from our usual pattern, this Zoom session takes place 9.15am–11 Eastern Daylight Time / 14.15–16.00 Central European Time. Zoom links and the readings for each session will be circulated in advance.

For more information, please email globinfohistworkshop@gmail.com.