e-TiM: Online Program
e-TiM: The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews

This three-part series will take place on Tuesdays at 8:30 pm Eastern from May 3-18.

What does it mean to be the People of the Book?

Texts have been essential to the Jewish people  for millennia. The material, books, and scrolls in which these texts are written often leave important clues as to the lives of Jews throughout time.

This course will provide a whirlwind overview of the materiality of the Jewish book in the last thousand years, including a dive into the paratexts that tell us about the lives led by Jews of the past.

May 3
History and Society in Scraps and Fragments: the Cairo (and other) Geniza(s)

May 10
Reading Deeper in Manuscript and Print: Paratexts and the Jewish Past

May 17
Early Print as a Hidden Archive: Tracing Footprints in Jewish books

 

Dates

May 3, 2022 May 17, 2022

Time

Tuesdays 8:30 PM EDT

Topics

History, Books, Books

Classes of e-TiM: The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews

The People In, Of, and Around the Book_ How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews (Part 1) - History and Society in Scraps and Fragments: the Cairo (and other) Geniza(s)

Michelle Margolis Chesner

Program: e-TiM: The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews

The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews (Part 2) - Reading Deeper in Manuscript and Print: Paratexts and the Jewish Past

Michelle Margolis Chesner

Program: e-TiM: The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews

The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews (Part 3) - Early Print as a Hidden Archive: Tracing Footprints in Jewish books

Michelle Margolis Chesner

Program: e-TiM: The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews

The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews (Part 1)

May 3, 2022

Program: e-TiM: The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews

Watch The People In, Of, and Around the Book (Part 1) || Michelle Margolis Chesner on YouTube.

The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews (Part 2)

May 10, 2022

Program: e-TiM: The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews

Watch The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews (Part 2) || on YouTube.

The People In, Of, and Around the Book (Part 3)

May 17, 2022

Program: e-TiM: The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews

Watch The People In, Of, and Around the Book (Part 3) || Michelle Margolis Chesner on YouTube.

Meet the speaker

Michelle Margolis Chesner

Michelle Margolis Chesner is the Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia University and the Vice President/President-Elect of the Association for Jewish Libraries. She co-directs Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place, a digital project which maps the movement of Jews across time through their books. Michelle's research interests focus on the history of the Jewish book, history of Jewish libraries, and digital scholarship in Jewish Studies.

Michelle Margolis Chesner bio & resources