This website is presented in conjunction with the exhibition

Printing the Talmud: From Bomberg to Schottenstein

presented at Yeshiva University Museum
at The Center for Jewish History, New York
April 12 – August 29, 2005

Exhibition Team:

Sylvia Axelrod Herskowitz
Director, Yeshiva University Museum

Gabriel M. Goldstein
Sharon Liberman Mintz
Project Directors

Lou Storey
Exhibition Designer

Joshua Feinberg
Exhibition Associate Curator

Marvin Heller
Exhibition Curator of Printed Books

Katharina Feil
Exhibition Coordinator

Ben Polsky
Ian Umlauf
Exhibit Technicians

 

• “The Infinite Sea” Video Installation
  by Sylvia Axelrod Herskowitz
  Jacob Bender, Technical Director
  Michal Schonbrun, Israeli Researcher
  

• Academic Advisory Committee and Catalogue Authors:

  Prof. Robert Brody
  Prof. Elisheva Carlebach
  Prof. Robert Chazan
  Prof. Yaakov Elman
  Prof. Steven Fine
  Prof. Edward Fram
  Prof. Shamma Friedman
  Marvin Heller
  Rabbi Nesanel Kasnett
  Prof. Ephraim Kanarfogel
  Rabbi Adam Mintz
  Prof. Bruce E. Nielsen
  Rabbi Michael Rosensweig
  Rabbi Nosson Scherman
  Prof. Lawrence H. Schiffman
  Prof. Marc B, Shapiro
  Prof. Haym Soloveitchik
  Prof. Michael Stanislawski
  David Wachtel

  David Sclar
  Managing Editor, Exhibition Catalogue

  Exhibition Catalogue book design, typography, and production
  by Scott-Martin Kosofsky at The Phildor Company,
  Lexington, Massachusetts

  Exhibition Catalogue copyright © 2005 by Yeshiva University.  All rights reserved.

  The catalogue entries were composed by Steven Fine (Rehov Synagogue mosaic floor), Yedidiya Fraenkel (Vilna Gaon autograph notes), Marvin J. Heller (printed editions), Bruce E. Nielsen (Bomberg editions), and David Wachtel (manuscripts and parodies), with the assistance of Joshua Feinberg, Gabriel M. Goldstein, Sharon Liberman Mintz, and David Sclar.

Lenders to the Exhibition:

The Aleph Society

Artscroll/Mesorah Publications

Archives of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

The Braginsky Collection

The Grolier Club of New York

Israel Antiquities Authority

The Jay and Jeanie Schottenstein Family Judaica Collection

Klau Library, Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion

The Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary

Library of Agudas Chasidei Chabbad

Maatikei Ha-Shemuah Institute for the Publication of Manuscripts of Rabbi Eliyahu, The Gaon of Vilna, Rabbi Yedidiya Halevi Fraenkel, Director

Manfred and Anne Lehmann Foundation, Barbara Lehmann Siegel and Karen Lehmann Eisner

Mendel Gottesman Library, Yeshiva University

Bernard Eliyahu Sidi

And two Private Collections