5 December, 2024
6 December 1946 – 6 July 2024
(Photo courtesy of the Tahan family)
Please Join Us
to honour and celebrate the legacy of Ilana Tahan, OBE—our much-loved colleague, and the international authority on Hebrew Manuscripts. As the Lead Curator for Hebrew and Christian Orient Collections, Ilana oversaw the British Library’s holdings of Armenian, Aramaic, Coptic, Hebrew, Samaritan, and Syriac manuscripts, and printed books. In this role, she was exceptionally active in reaching out to communities and scholars. She published many articles and chapters on the Hebrew collections, and undertook dozens of public workshops and presentations to bring the manuscripts closer to audiences. Ilana received her Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to scholarship in 2009.
Contributors
Opening Remarks – the Tahan family
Dr Colin F. Baker, Former Head of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Collections, the British Library
Prof Marc Michael Epstein, Mattie M. Paschall (1899) and Norman Davis Chair in Religion & Visual Culture, and Director of Jewish Studies, Vassar College
Dr Pauline Malkiel, Former Valmadonna Trust Library
Dr Luisa Elena Mengoni, Head of Asian and African Collections, the British Library
Dr Peter Tóth, Cornelia Stark Curator of Greek Collections, the Bodleian Libraries
Closing Statements – the Tahan family
Date: 5 December, 2024
Time: 18:00-19:00 GMT | 19:00-20:00 CEST | 10:00-11:00 PT | 13:00-14:00 ET | 20:00-21:00 Israel
Venue: Online
The British Library Pays Tribute to Ilana
The National Library of Israel Pays Tribute to Ilana
https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/manuscripts/hebrew-manuscripts
This event would have been Ilana’s last presentation
(she had to withdraw three weeks before it was due to take place)
