Yashar Koah on a job very well done, Arthur! This is really a beautiful exhibit, and I love that you can "walk through" it and see all of the items in their context.
Thank you so much for sharing! Michelle On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 1:56 PM, arthur kiron <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > -- > 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/ > > __ > Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual > author > and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries > (AJL) > ================================== > Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: > [email protected] > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > Earlier Listserver: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org > -- > Hasafran mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran >
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