*I found this on the weekly email JewishGen's Weekly News Nosh by Phil Goldfarb.*
*Built by conversos fleeing Spain, Amsterdam’s ancient Ets Haim library gets an update.* Massive Encyclopedia of Jewish Book Cultures also underway by Dutch publisher Brill, who says 31 institutions already purchased access to the compilation to be complete in 3 years. The oldest book in Ets Haim is a handwritten Mishneh Torah dated 1282, the oldest copy of the work and therefore believed to be the copy most true to Maimonides’s original language and intent. Read the story from Times of Israel: Built by conversos fleeing Spain, Amsterdam's ancient Ets Haim library gets an update | The Times of Israel <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.timesofisrael.com/built-by-conversos-fleeing-spain-amsterdams-ancient-ets-haim-library-gets-an-update/?utm_campaign=daily-edition-2023-07-10&utm_medium=email&utm_source=The*Daily*Edition__;Kys!!KGKeukY!1z-n9S4Ps89ZKJaT5pJZbBbolGKA9jgqf8LwMH6dV-aFHoip6pNWJb3PQnB13E1kp6xNKhXYLrrkbbyX5F0iVlLSlt2GbA$ > Michelle Sandler MLS Librarian Beth David (Reform) Westminster, California Librarian Orange County California Jewish Genealogy Society Library Liaison International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies
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