Dear All, The next Association of Jewish Libraries/Capital Area Chapter (AJL/CAC) program will be a lecture by Jennifer Breger from *10 AM until noon on Sunday, September 22, 2019 *at Beth Sholom Congregation, 11825 Seven Locks Road, Potomac, Maryland 20854. Please see below for more information on the lecture. The program is co-sponsored by AJL/CAC and the Sisterhood of Beth Sholom Congregation. Very special thanks to our guest speaker Jennifer Breger, the Sisterhood of Beth Sholom Congregation, and Elisa Elfasi and Gail Shirazi for their work on this program.
Please send your RSVP's to Nahid Gerstein at [email protected] by Thursday, September 19, 2019. We hope you can join us for what promises to be a fascinating program! Regards, Yermiyahu Ahron President, AJL/CAC =============================================================== A Lecture on Women in Jewish Printing by Jennifer Breger Jennifer Breger will discuss women in Jewish printing, including Jewish women copyists and typesetters. She will examine the role of Jewish women historically involved in Jewish printing, including those who brought their husbands’ work to press, those who inherited printing establishments from their husbands after death, and those who seem to have run independent printing shops over a long period of time. She will explore whether there were examples of Sephardic women historically involved in Hebrew printing besides the famous Dona Reyna Mendes, daughter of Dona Gracia, in Constantinople. If not, why not? Additionally, she will touch on the role of non-Jewish women in the printing of books in Hebrew and other Jewish languages. Bio Jennifer Breger holds a B.A. and M.A. from St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and an M.A. from the Hebrew University. She collects books, manuscripts, documents and ephemera written for, by and about Jewish women, and books printed by Jewish women. An independent scholar, she has published on Hebrew printing, as well as on the liturgy and literature of Jewish women in *Antiquarian Bookman*, *The Jewish Book Annual*, *Encyclopedia Judaica*, and the *Encyclopedia of Jewish Women*. She appraises books and Holy Land maps for individuals and institutions including the Library of Congress and the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and has curated and written catalogues for various museum exhibits of Judaica. Her collection is a major source of research on the sociology of Jewish women through the ages.
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