Katrin Kogman-Appel | “Jewish Printers and Christian Artists in Naples and Istanbul: An Illustrated Haggadah for Sefardi Refugees (1492–1505)”

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The Plimpton Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Katrin Kogman-Appel | “Jewish Printers and Christian Artists in Naples and Istanbul: An Illustrated Haggadah for Sefardi Refugees (1492–1505)”

Katrin Kogman-Appel is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Jewish Studies at the Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Münster.

Her research and published work focus on medieval Jewish art and book culture, with particular interest in Hebrew manuscript illumination and its cultural and social contexts.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Jewish Cultures and Societies and History of the Book Seminar Series at the Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University.

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