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Shimon Mordukhovich Iakerson (Russian: Семён Мордухович Якерсон; born August 4, 1956) is a Russian scholar specializing in medieval Hebrew manuscripts and incunabula.

Career

Iakerson is the Head of the Department of Semitic and Hebrew Studies at the St. Petersburg State University, Russia. He is also the Head Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as a corresponding member of the Hebrew Paleography Project of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. He has lectured at a variety of academic institutions around the world, most recently at Sorbonne in Paris, France. One of his most notable lecture series was "Collectors and Collections: Hebrew Manuscripts and Incunabula in Russia" delivered on 23–24 May 2010 at the Penn Libraries in Philadelphia, USA, organized jointly with the Jewish Studies Program and the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. In recent years he has become involved with Jewish museology and the presentation of Jewish history to larger audiences, for a period of time serving as a curator at the Judaica collections of the Russian Museum of Ethnography. Later was the head chair of in St. Petersburg State University and the leading researcher in the Department of Hebrew Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Achievements

Since 1985, Iakerson has produced about 80 publications on Jewish history and Hebrew incunabula. His works have been published in Russian, Hebrew, French, Dutch and English. His opus magnum is the Catalogue of Hebrew Incunabula from the Collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, wherein he describes the largest collection of Hebrew books printed with movable type before 1501 A.D. He holds the first Honorable Medal of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress “For Service to the Jewish People” (28 July 2005, Jerusalem) for the publication of his 2005 Catalogue of Hebrew Incunabula from the Collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and is a winner of the Antsiferov award in Saint-Petersburg studies for the 2008-2009 publication of the illustrated volume Jewish Treasures of Petersburgand the winner of the Bezalel, Mordechai, and Nessia Narkiss Prize for excellence in the research of Jewish Art. (December 13 2023, Jerusalem). Scriptwriter and host of a series of popular science films on the history of the Hebrew manuscripts under the general title "By Hand" (2022-2023).

Family

Daughters:

Bibliography of Individual Works

С. М. Якерсона. СПб.: Центр «Петербургское востоковедение», 2006. 24 с.

manuscripten in Sint-Petersburg. Amsterdam, 2005. 39 p. (Printed in Dutch)

Family. Vol. 3: Printed Books. Incunabula and Sixteenth Century Books. New York, 1996. [49], 314, XXIII pp. (The Manfred and Anne Lehmann Foundation Series. 22). (In English and Hebrew).

References

  1. ^ https://www.muramatik.com/
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