Join the Institute and the Norman E. Alexander Library Studies for the 2023 Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections on Thursday, November 9, at 12:00 PM. This event is a webinar on Zoom.

This year's Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections centers around the physical aspects of books and manuscripts. Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter will discuss what he learned about Rabbis Ya'akov Emden and Tsevi Hirsch Ashekenazi through examination of their annotations in books; Abigail Slawik will discuss some of the work involved in conserving a 700 year old manuscript of the Bible written in Spain, and Dr. Shai Zamir will discuss what he discovered when he examined two Ladino works that seemed remarkably similar in form.