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Evelyn M. Cohen is an American art historian. == Career == Cohen is an expert in the art of medieval Jewish manuscripts.〔("People Of The Book, People Of The Text: The Harry G. Friedman Society And Jewish Books," ) Menachem Wecker, March 15, 2006, Jewish Press,〕 Cohen was responsible for reuniting the two halves of the oldest dated Jewish manuscript from the German lands. While working in an archive, she recognized that the partial manuscript of a Jewish holiday prayer book that she was examining was the other half of a prayer book that she had examined in another archive.〔''The life of Judaism,'' Harvey E. Goldberg, University of California Press, 2001, p. 153-4.〕 The manuscript was the personal prayer book of Qalonimos ben Yehuda dated 28 Tevet, 5050 (January 12, 1290), Esslingen am Neckar.〔 Cohen is noted particularly for her work on the role of Jewish women in commissioning, owning and using books in the medieval period and Renaissance.〔 She has recovered and describes several prayer books written in the feminine voice, including some that feature, among the blessings that begin the morning prayer, the blessing " "Blessed are you God, master of the universe, that You have made me a woman and not a man."〔 Other manuscripts that Cohen has studied feature women in the illuminations.〔 Cohen received the winner of the National Jewish Book Award for her book on the Rothschild Maḥzor of 1492 co-authored with Menachem Schmelzer.〔(), "Jewish Book Council Names Award Winners," April 6, 1985, New York Times.〕 Cohen is the daughter of Haskell Cohen, the former Publicity Director of the NBA. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Evelyn M. Cohen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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