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The Curious Style of William Steig
William Steig is best known as a writer/illustrator of children’s books—or, if you’re younger than forty, as the inspiration for the DreamWorks animated film Shrek. But Steig didn’t begin writing books for younger readers until he was sixty-one. For much of his career he was most well-known as a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, […]
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Joseph Castaldo’s Graphic Score
Joseph Castaldo (1927-2000) was a composer of classical music and a teacher of music theory and composition. He was a talented musician, but at the very early age of 11, he had begun to compose his own pieces and after he returned to the United States after a stint in the United States Army Band […]
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Irene Eber’s “Choice” to Tell Her Story
In the past, when I have studied the Holocaust, my thoughts tended to focus on the people who were murdered and the survivors who witnessed the horror, knew about siblings, parents and kids being killed, and lived with the memories. I had not really thought of the children who were either too young to remember […]
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Unexpected Music: Binding Waste of Folio GrC Ar466 Ef54 1537
The use of manuscript waste in bindings has been a delight to me ever since I first encountered it. As a print cataloger, my professional commerce with manuscripts is largely limited to these fragments, but fortunately the Kislak Center’s Incunable Collection and Culture Class Collection have put more than a few instances of such waste […]
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Let’s Dish … on Penn’s LGBT Center!
The Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Center at the University of Pennsylvania is the 2nd oldest LGBTQ+ center in the United States … Gays at Penn formed in the 1970s and not too long after, became Lesbians and Gays at Penn (LGAP). In 1982, following some really awful homophobic events on campus, the University hired […]
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Wanted! The Illicit Diamond Dealer, Isaac Joel.
Written by Shevi Epstein I find this “wanted” broadside from the Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica, very interesting. The broadside provides information about an illicit diamond dealer named Isaac Joel and was put forth by John Fry, the Chief of the Detective Department of Griqualand West, Kimberley, South Africa on March […]
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