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Countway Library Exhibit and Symposium:

“Sages, Scholars, and Healers: Judaica from the Solomon M. Hyams Collection of the Boston Medical Library”

Speakers:

• Joseph Shatzmiller, Smart Family distinguished professor of judaica in the Department of History at Duke University
• Sander L. Gilman, distinguished professor of the liberal arts and sciences at the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University
• John M. Efron, the KoretChair in jewish history at the University of California, Berkeley
• Gad Freudenthal, visiting professor of religious studies at Yale University
• Charles Berlin, the Lee M. Friedman bibliographer in judaica at the Harvard College Library at Harvard University

Minot Room, Fifth Floor
Countway Library
10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.

The Countway Library will be hosting a one-day symposium and exhibit on the role of Jews in the history of medicine. The exhibit will be on view all day at the library’s first floor, a reception will be held at 5 p.m. Symposium lectures by five internationally recognized and renowned scholars in medieval history and Jewish studies will be held from 10 a.m. until 3:45 p.m. The complete list of speakers and lecture topics can be found in the symposium program. Registration is required—sign up for any single lecture or morning/afternoon sessions by e-mailing rvogel@hms.harvard.edu.

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