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It is a complete handbook for the Jewish year, containing over 40 illustrations of the main holidays and rituals. The author was commissioned to create it after working on a Jewish songbook and discovering old Jewish customs books, one of which was published in Amsterdam in 1645.
He's a book composer, typographer and author of the Book of Customs, a complete handbook for the Jewish year.
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Episode: [Unedited] Scott-Martin Kosofsky with Krista Tippe...
It is a complete handbook for the Jewish year, containing over 40 illustrations of the main holidays and rituals. The author was commissioned to create it after working on a Jewish songbook and discovering old Jewish customs books, one of which was published in Amsterdam in 1645.
He's a book composer, typographer and author of the Book of Customs, a complete handbook for the Jewish year.
It's a lovely song book it's still in print and it's illustrated with wonderful woodcuts from the 16th and 17th centuries
It's a compact guide to the Jewish year with over 40 illustrations of the main holidays and rituals
It also had 12 woodcuts showing the zodiac and the seasons of farm life
It was written in Yiddish in a very strange kind of alphabet, but as a typographer of course I get used to odd alphabets rather easily
Episode: [Unedited] Scott-Martin Kosofsky with Krista Tippe...
It is a complete handbook for the Jewish year, containing over 40 illustrations of main holidays and rituals. The author was hired to work on a Jewish project and found remarkable woodcuts that led him to discover the old Jewish customs box and this book.
So tell me something Monday and like, have you had lunch yet?
It's a lovely song book; it's still in print and it's illustrated with wonderful woodcuts from the 16th and 17th centuries.
It's a compact guide to the Jewish year with over 40 illustrations of the main holidays and rituals.
It was written in Yiddish, in a very strange kind of alphabet, but as a typographer, of course, I get used to odd alphabets rather easily.
The sponsors at Harvard Hillel had hoped that perhaps there were Jewish equivalents of these things, and I was not very encouraging.
Episode: Scott-Martin Kosofsky — Legends to Live By
A medieval Yiddish guide from Venice, it served as a handbook for daily life and sacred time for three centuries. Kosofsky's rediscovery and adaptation of this book brought its wisdom to a modern audience, highlighting its timeless relevance.
I interviewed him in 2004 about his modern adaptation of a Venetian yiddish guide from the Middle Ages, the book of customs or minhakeem. It's a compilation of stories and practical instructions, prayers to recite and illustrations to contemplate.
And what I hit stumbled upon was the book of customs.
This was, you know, love it for a sight because what I had in my hands was something I had never seen before, a compact guy to the Jewish year with over 40 illustrations of the main holidays and rituals.
Picking up your book the book of customs it's not a prayer book right? It's not like the book of the whole prayer and but you but at the same time you almost get an overwhelming sense of prayer upon prayer, upon prayer right in a Jewish life that is presented and and there's something in that that it's hard to square that with a modern idea of daily life and you know just wonder and has this changed the way you structure your days and your time and your weeks and months?
Scott Martin Kasowski's books include The Book of Customs a complete handbook for the Jewish year