Is This the World’s Largest Jewish Library? | Show & Tale: The JTS Library | Full

Located in New York City, the Jewish Theological Seminary is home to one of the world’s largest Jewish libraries. From Zodiac signs and 18th-century Jewish doctors to censored Talmuds and Maimonides’ manuscripts, JTS has it all. Joined by Dr. David Kraemer and Sharon Liberman Mintz, 18Forty is here to give you an exclusive, inside look.

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Show & Tale is a new 18Forty video series that will take you inside some of the great libraries—both public and private—to explore books and treasures from Jewish history.

David Kraemer is Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics and the Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Sharon Liberman Mintz is the Curator of Jewish Art at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library.

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0:00 Intro
1:03 History of the JTS Library
1:45 The Jews of Corfu Exhibition
4:15 Zodiac Signs and Jewish Marriage
5:50 Corfu Prayer Books

7:35 First Printing of the Complete Babylonian Talmud
8:30 A Closer Look at the Daf
10:20 The Regime of Censorship

13:01 The Tragic Fire of JTS
16:44 Lost in the Fire

19:09 What is the Cairo Geniza?
21:49 Maimonides’ Original Manuscript

25:59 The First Printed Hebrew Calendar
26:55 First Printed Machzor Prayer Book
28:55 Library Snakes
29:03 Pesach Haggadah

30:08 Manuscript of the Siddur
31:00 Wealthy Jews and the Prayer Book Renaissance
32:44 What’s Special About JTS