David Stern, the Harry Starr professor of classical and modern Jewish and Hebrew literature and professor of comparative literature at Harvard, is the author of, among other works, The Anthology in Jewish Literature (2004), Jewish Literary Cultures: The Ancient Period (2015), and The Jewish Bible: A Material History (2017).
A spectacularly illustrated new book charts the contents of one of the world’s most valuable libraries of Jewish books, and pays tribute to the obsessives who tracked them all down.
The most polished writing and
sharpest analysis in the Jewish world.