October 2021
Detectives in the Archives: Revealing the Stories of Three Magnificent Jewish Books
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Thursday October 7, 2021 The Brick and the Book: The Barcelona Haggadah (Iberia, Catalonia, c. 1350. London: British Library MS Additional 14761) In which the famed but bumbling detective Marc Michael Epstein of Vassar College discovers that you can look at something for thirty years and have no idea what you are seeing. Thursday October 14, 2021 A Mysterious Absence: The Rothschild Pentateuch (Frankfurt am Main, 1296. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum and Research Center, Ms. 116 Acquisition 2018.43)…
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