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At a book-lovers’ mecca, a celebration of the Jewish Diaspora

JL;DR SUMMARY At New York City's Grolier Club, the exhibit "Jewish Worlds Illuminated: A Treasury of Hebrew Manuscripts from The JTS Library" showcases an extraordinary collection of Jewish manuscripts from across the diaspora. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish DiasporaMaimonidesJewish Theological SeminaryHebrew TextsArtCultural IntegrationManuscriptsGrolier ClubIslamic ArtAshkenazi And Sephardi Jews

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New York City, New York, United States
"Collectively, these works form Jewish Worlds Illuminated: A Treasury of Hebrew Manuscripts from The JTS Library, the first-ever exhibition dedicated to Jewish books and manuscripts at the storied club, which was founded in New York City in 1884."
Florence, Italy
"Left: Abraham Judah ben Yehiel of Camerinos Rothschild Mahzor, from Florence, Italy in 1490."
Salonica, Central Macedonia, Greece
"Right: A page from Sermons and Collected Teachings, from 17th-century Salonica, Greece."
Israel
"It is notable, but not intentional, that we dont have material here from the land of Israel."
Bilbeis, Al Sharqia, Egypt
"It pleads for funds to ransom the Jews who were taken prisoner in November 1168 when the crusader king Amalric I of Jerusalem conquered the Egyptian city of Bilbeis, some 50 miles north of Cairo, which was home to a sizable Jewish community in the Middle Ages."
France
"On the left side of the ground-floor gallery at the Upper East Sides Grolier Club an institution that bills itself as Americas oldest and largest society for bibliophiles youll find elaborately decorated, centuries-old Jewish manuscripts from the likes of Italy, France and the Iberian Peninsula."
Italy
"On the left side of the ground-floor gallery at the Upper East Sides Grolier Club an institution that bills itself as Americas oldest and largest society for bibliophiles youll find elaborately decorated, centuries-old Jewish manuscripts from the likes of Italy, France and the Iberian Peninsula."
Yemen
"These manuscripts are remnants of dynamic Jewish communities that once existed in Muslim lands such as Yemen, North African and Iran/Iraq."
Iran
"These manuscripts are remnants of dynamic Jewish communities that once existed in Muslim lands such as Yemen, North African and Iran/Iraq."
Iraq
"These manuscripts are remnants of dynamic Jewish communities that once existed in Muslim lands such as Yemen, North African and Iran/Iraq."

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