Mazel Tov to Emile Schrijver, the recipient of the 2021 Narkiss prize for excellence in the research of Jewish Art,  presented by the Center for Jewish Art at Hebrew University

Mazel tov to Dr. Emile Schrijver, the recipient of the 2021 Bezalel, Mordechai, and Nessa Narkiss prize for excellence in the research of Jewish Art,  presented by the Center for Jewish Art at Hebrew University!

Emile is the General Director Jewish Historical Museum and Jewish Cultural Quarter, Amsterdam (since 2015); Professor of Jewish Book History, University of Amsterdam; curator of the private Braginsky collection in Zurich; from 1986-2015 curator of the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana.

He is also the chair of the Association of European Jewish Museums (and in addition he has just published a novel, a literary thriller titled “De Hillel Codex” — which we really hope comes out soon in English translation).

The award will be presented at an online ceremony November 29, at 19:00 CET — at which time Emile will give a lecture titled “Jewish art history and Jewish book history meet for the last time: The end of Hebrew manuscript decoration in Western Europe.”

You can attend the ceremony and talk via this Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/NarkissPrize

Click here to see the list of previous Narkiss prize winners, going back to 1988

Click here to read an article that Emile wrote for JHE in June 2020 about the post-pandemic future of European Jewish museums