Scholar-in-Residence Sharon Liberman Mintz

Scholar-in-Residence Sharon Liberman Mintz

Thursday, July 12th at 7:00 p.m.

Divine Illustrations: Jewish Art in Italy

 Sharon Liberman Mintz specializes in the fields of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts and rare printed books. Over the course of twenty-two years, Ms. Liberman Mintz has curated more than forty exhibitions and co-authored eleven exhibition catalogs. Since 1994, she has also served as the senior consultant for Judaica and Hebraica at Sotheby's New York, where she curated and mounted the record-breaking exhibition of the Valmadonna Trust  Library last winter. Her most recent publication, A Journey through Jewish Worlds: Highlights from the Braginsky Collection of Hebrew Manuscripts and Printed Books,           accompanies an international exhibition of rare Hebrew books that she co-curated; the exhibition opened in Amsterdam in the fall of 2009, and she traveled to New York in the spring of 2010.