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.
Speaker's Resources
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
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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
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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
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e-TiM: The People In, Of, and Around the Book: How Jewish Books Tell the Story of the Jews
Michelle Margolis Chesner
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