Dear Safranim:
A digital presentation of the Penn Libraries' exhibition,
“Constellations of Atlantic Jewish History, 1555-1890: The Arnold and
Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica," may now be viewed
on-line: http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/kaplanexhibit/ . The physical
exhibition, mounted in partnership with the National Museum of American
Jewish History, originally was held in the Goldstein Family Gallery of
the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at
Penn from February 12, 2014-June 9, 2014. The Kaplan Collection, donated
to Penn in November of 2012, consists of over 11,000 individual items
that document an astonishingly broad range of commercial, social,
religious, political, and cultural ties that connected Jews and the
general public from the colonial era through the onset of mass migration
at the end of the nineteenth century. The exhibition features a treasure
trove of original documents, books, oil paintings, lithographs, and
artifacts. Among the earliest items in the Collection is a late
16th-century codex of the proceedings of the Inquisition in Mexico City
against a New Christian accused of Judaizing and engraved maps dating
from the 17th and 18th centuries which mark Jewish permanent settlements
in the New World. A major component of the Collection focuses on the
development of Jewish mercantile, social and religious activity in the
Americas of the 19th century.
This digital version of the physical exhibition was made on the
suggestion of Arnold Kaplan, who built the Kaplan collection with his
wife Deanne over the course of nearly four decades. This format,
displaying virtually the physical exhibition in its original setting, is
the first of its kind to be presented by the Penn Libraries. This
digital version was created thanks to the talent and hard work of Dennis
Mullen, the Digitization and Date Management Specialist at the Kislak
Center. The photography was carried out with great skill and on
short-notice by Chris Lippa, the imaging assistant at the Schoenberg
Center for Electronic Text and Image at the Penn Libraries.
The printed companion volume to the exhibition may be ordered at:
http://www.costore.com/pennlibraries/ProductEnlarged_v2.aspx?session={DEEF2490-CB52-4EC3-8607-73CAD577C134}&peid=1061&pid=5054066
If you have questions about the digital exhibition or have trouble
ordering the companion volume, please feel free to be in touch.
Best wishes,
Arthur
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Arthur Kiron, Ph.D.
Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
T. (215) 573-7431
F. (215) 898-0559
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/judaica/
Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
T. (215) 238-1290 ext 202
F. (215) 238-1540
Wednesday and Friday
http://www.library.upenn.edu/cajs/
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