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Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections: "Fleeing France, Portraying the Plague, and Cultivating Commentaries"

  • Norman E. Alexander Library 420 West 118th St. New York, NY 10027 This is a Zoom Event (map)

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This year's Celebration of Collections features manuscripts from the medieval, early modern, and modern period, and spanning topics such as expulsion, plague, and translation.

- Charlie Steinman, “I heard there was a return in France:” A Codicological Approach to the Liturgical Identity of Post-Expulsion French Jewry

- Susan Einbinder, "Writing the Stories of Plague: Abraham Catalano’s ‘Olam Hafukh"

- Dan Klein, "Shadal's First Draft: Translating the Commentaries of Samuel David Luzzatto With the Aid of a Columbia Manuscript."