The Departments of Religious Studies, Studio Art, Art History and English welcome Noam Sienna to Kenyon.
Jews have long been known as the "People of the Book" — but what can we learn from the visual and aesthetic dimensions of Jewish books, beyond their textual content?
This lecture explores the processes of making and decorating books among Jewish communities around the world, and the changes in their material forms from the Middle Ages to the present, from the perspective of a calligrapher and letterpress printer who continues to practice these arts.