First, I want to apologize to all Rosen-blog readers who subscribe via the Feedburner feed. It turns out there was a glitch which kept our feed from updating correctly for the past month, which also led to posts not appearing on Facebook. We have now resolved the problem and you should be getting your Rosen-posts as normal. You may receive several posts at once as the feed catches up with the past month of posting.
Now, on to this week’s post.
Do you know the answers to the following fascinating questions?
- What is a box binding?
- What does the Hebrew letter Lamed have to do with a camel and Charlton Heston?
- Why is the Bay Psalm Book included in an exhibit of “Jewish Firsts”?
- Where did Antonio de Montezinus believe he had found one of the lost tribes of Israel?
- How did Michael Gratz personalize his pocket almanac?
If you’re stumped, hurry over to In The Beginning: Three Jewish Firsts in the Rosenbach Collection.
This is the last weekend for this amazing exhibition; come Monday we will be taking it down as we prepare to open Networking Before the Net: Sharing Information in the Pre-Digitial Age on January 29. So come in, take a look and enjoy–before In the Beginning comes to an end!
Kathy Haas is the Associate Curator at the Rosenbach Museum & Library.