Re: [ha-Safran]: Torah scrolls in academic libraries

2008-02-07 Thread Daniel Stuhlman
At 11:34 PM 2/6/2008, you wrote: Dear colleagues, A few weeks ago we received a donation of a 19th-century Yemeni Torah. As far as I know, it is not kosher due to worn-out. I wrote an article on the preservation of Torah Scrolls in the Fall 2006 issue of Bonefolder, an online journal for the

[ha-Safran]: Torah scrolls in academic libraries

2008-02-06 Thread Rachel Leket-Mor
Dear colleagues, A few weeks ago we received a donation of a 19th-century Yemeni Torah. As far as I know, it is not kosher due to worn-out. I would like to know how many academic libraries have Torahs (or, better still, Yemeni ones) and how they are handled (storage, restrictions on usage, etc.).