Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast
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Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast
Pesachim No.6: Every Spring is Illuminated
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Season 4
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Episode 6
What’s the deal with the Birds’ Head Haggadah? How were illuminated Haggadot from the Middle Ages created, and why does everyone make such a big fuss about them?
Dr. Marc Michael Epstein is Professor of Religion and Visual Culture at Vassar College. He is the author of, among other books, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination and Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts.
Special thanks to our executive producer, Adina Karp
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