About this Event
The Golden Path tracks Maimonides and his thought through a study of materiality. It focuses on visual material, such as depictions of Maimonides, and on manuscripts and rare printed books from collections around the world, exploring specific items within their varied historical, cultural, and Maimonidean contexts. The exhibition is organized by guest curator David Sclar and will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue co-published by Liverpool University Press. It will explore Maimonides’ authority and impact as well as the Mediterranean and Islamic contexts in which he lived. The catalogue will include essays by world-class scholars from institutions such as Princeton University, Bar-Ilan University, Ben Gurion University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Haifa, the University of Oxford, and Yeshiva University.
The exhibition will include items that have never before been displayed in public. Among the pieces that will be on loan to YUM are important and rare examples—such as 13th-century Yemenite manuscripts, early printed books from Italy and the Ottoman Empire, and texts produced by and for Christian audiences—from the Hartman Collection, the most significant private collection of Maimonides manuscripts and rare books; and spectacular manuscripts, some in Maimonides’ own hand, borrowed from the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, the British Library, the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, the National Library of Israel, the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Royal Library in Copenhagen, the Italian State Archives, and others.
Exhibit Hours
Monday – Wednesday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Thursday: 10:00 am – 7:30 pm
Friday: closed
Saturday: closed
Sunday: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Other hours available by appointment.
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Credits for the images from left to right are: 1. Arthur Szyk, Maimonides, New Canaan, 1950, Watercolor and gouache on paper. Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, gift of Louis Werner2. Lithograph, Warsaw, ca. 1879. Image courtesy of Moreshet Auction House3. Blasio Ugolino, Thesaurus Antiquitatum Sacrarum, Venice, 1744. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University4. Unknown Artist, Maimonides, 21st Century. Hartman Family Collection5. A. R. Oleosa, Statue of Maimonides, Córdoba, dedicated in 1985. Photo © Ken Welsh. All rights reserved 2023 / Bridgeman Images
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, United States
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