Name: 100 Objects From the Collections of the YIVO Institute
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September 2025
September 24 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm EDT

Collecting Shakespeare’s First Folio in America

Sponsored by The Grolier Club This talk by David Alan Richards, Grolier Club member (and former Council member), will cover centuries of Shakespeare's First Folios arriving in America. The first […]
October 2025
October 6 @ 5:00 pm - 6:15 pm PDT

Encrypted Books – Mysteries that Fill Hundreds of Pages

Book Club of California

Sponsored by The Book Club of California. The lecturers have studied about 120 books that are entirely or partially encrypted. In this talk, they introduce the most fascinating ones. This […]
October 6 @ 8:00 pm EDT

Manuscript Mondays: The Spanish Illuminated Manuscript

Sponsored by The Manuscript Society The Special Collections and University Archives at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) is home to more than 20,000 volumes of rare books and incunabula, dating […]
October 10 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT

Vanessa Pintado on The Hispanic Society of America Library and La Celestina

Sponsored by the Caxton Club. October Midday Program Caxtonians do love to go searching after a first. A first edition. A first printing. A first of its kind. Especially when […]
October 20 @ 6:00 pm EDT

Decoration of Hebrew Manuscripts after the Invention of Printing

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Through an examination of Illustrated 18th century Hebrew manuscripts and decorated Scrolls of Esther we will explore the fascinating evolution of artistic Hebrew manuscript following […]
October 20 @ 7:30 pm EDT

Benjamin Albritton on California Bindings

Sponsored by FABS The FABS Bindings Zoom Group welcomes Benjamin Albritton for a talk on California Bindings. Stanford University Special Collections has many exceptional items in its care and Benjamin […]
October 23 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm PDT

Golden Slumbers: California’s Dormant Fine Press Scene

Sponsored by The Book Club of California. Building on themes from his book, Dreaming on the Edge: Poets & Book Artists in California, Alastair Johnston explores overlooked figures in the history […]
October 23 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm EDT

With Maternal Ferocity: Reclaiming Secular Yiddish Children’s Literature

Sponsored by The Grolier Club Based on her new book Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature, Yiddish scholar Miriam Udel will reflect on her efforts to reclaim and revivify the […]
October 25 @ 8:00 am - October 26 @ 5:00 pm EDT

Miniature Book Society Conclave

Sponsored by The Miniature Book Society Miniature Book Society Conclave The Miniature Book Society will hold a two day Virtual Conclave on Saturday and Sunday October 25 and 26, 2025. […]
October 27 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm PDT

A Journey in Bookplates: The Art and Life of California Designer Beulah Mitchell Clute

Sponsored by the Book Club of California. Come along on a collector’s journey as Claudia Smukler takes you through the fascinating world of bookplates, also known as ex-libris. The term ex-libris […]
October 27 @ 6:30 pm EDT

The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, Newly Translated

Sponsored by The Grolier Club The debut of a new English translation of Yiddish novels starring the fictional Viennese detective Max Spitzkopf. In early 1900s pulp fiction, the Viennese detective […]
October 30 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

100 Objects From the Collections of the YIVO Institute

Sponsored by The Grolier Club A celebration of a new book, 100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. A pair of ruby red slippers. A medieval […]