I presented a lecture entitled: ‘Sanaa (Yemen) – The Girls Brides: The Jewels’ at The Ben-Zvi Institiute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, Jerusalem, Israel, in the conference on Children & Childhood, 21-22, March 2018.

This book is concerned with the immanent connection of  Yemenite Hebrew illuminated Bibles and the Jewish Sanaa Jewels and open a new direction to compare the painting  to the Art of Architecture of  The Jewish Kingdom of Himyar  320-520 A.D. and its capital Zafar, south Yemen.

Yemen – The Sunni Renaissance & Hebrew Illuminated Bibles: The Immanent Connection

My lecture ‘Yemen – The Sunni Renaissance & Hebrew Illuminated Bibles: The Immanent Connection’ has been presented to The John Doran Prize, Saint Louis University, Missouri, U.S.A.

Yemen – The Sunni Renaissance & Hebrew Illuminated Bibles: The Immanent Connection

At the Second Annual Symposium on Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University, Missouri, U.S.A., June 16-18, 2014,  I gave a lecture entitled: ‘Yemen – The Sunni Renaissance & Hebrew Illuminated Bibles: The Immanent Connection’, as part of the Session: ‘Distinctions & Boundaries Across Medieval Islam’.
See: page 72 of the site (=p. 22 in the schedule of lectures). Marked W31 (painted with Yellow color). Wednesday, June 18, at 4:30PM.

In 2014, The Ben-Zvi Institiute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East, Jerusalem, awarded me a research grant for my research entitled:
‘Yemen – Synagogues and Hebrew Illuminated Bibles: The Immanent Connection’.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ‘Misgav Yerushalayim’, granted me with a Research Scholarship to buy copyrighted photos for publication for my book entitled:’Sanaa: Jewels & Hebrew Illuminated Bibles’.