The Jewish Bookshelf as a Site of Self-Fashioning:
Channel: Elli Fischer
Date: 2020-11-08

Paper delivered by Dovid Bashevkin and Elli Fischer at the conference, "Bookshelves in the Age of COVID-19", Nov. 3-4, 2020.

Full title: "The Jewish Bookshelf as a Site of Self-Fashioning: Reflections on a Historical Phenomenon in the Contemporary Moment

This paper looks at the phenomenon of using bookshelves to project public personae and applies it to the Jewish - specifically rabbinic - context.