Click here to register for Prof. Gertsman’s lecture, “Animal Affinities,” which will considers a striking Hebrew manuscript as a nucleus of images and ideas that coalesce around medieval Jewish identity. Professor Gertsman is recipient of the 2021 Baker-Nord Center Award for Distinguished Scholarship in the Humanities, which recognizes outstanding achievement in a field of humanistic scholarship.
Congratulations to this year’s Friends of Art Awards winners, Reed O’Mara, Mackenzie Clark, and Bing Wang!
Click here to read the new issue of the university art/sci magazine, which features an article on Prof. Gertsman’s Guggenheim Fellowship and includes a woodcut created by Ben and Reed in her honor!
Join us for a CV workshop with Prof. Gertsman on December 11 at 1:30 EST! Come for advice, stay for destructive fun! Click on “Learn more” for the Zoom link.
All six lectures / discussions drawn from medieval Jewish art seminar have been uploaded here, and are available to anyone with the CWRU email account. Please note that we were treated to two lectures by Prof. Diane Wolfthal: one on late medieval Yiddish manuscripts and another on the lives and afterlives of the Houston Mahzor!
