Hello all-- Shalom Sabar, the Fife Honor Lecturer for 2013, will be giving a talk in my folk art seminar tomorrow on birth amulets. The lecture is open to everyone. We meet in RBW, room 308 at 4:30. He is one of the foremost experts in the world on the beautiful folk tradition of illustrated marriage contracts ("ketubbot"). Shalom Sabar is a Professor of Jewish Art and Folklore at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Born in the neo-Aramaic speaking Kurdish-Jewish community of Zakho, Iraq, Professor Sabar earned his Ph.D. in Art History from UCLA , writing on the illustrated marriage contracts of the Jews in Renaissance and Baroque Italy.
Hope to see you there!
Lisa Gabbert
Associate Professor of English
Assistant Director, Folklore Program
Department of English
Utah State University
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