'The Architecture of an Early Modern Hebrew-Yiddish Prayerbook' with Giovanna Truong
Date and Time
May 8, 2025
05:00PM - 07:00PM EDT
Location
Arthur F. Kinney Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies, 650 East Pleasant St., Amherst MA
Five College Faculty Seminar in Book History with Giovanna Truong, Fellow in Bibliography and Translations, Yiddish Book Center.
Giovanna Truong is the 2024–25 Fellow in Bibliography and Translations at the Yiddish Book Center. She holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Yale University and a master’s degree in Yiddish studies from the University of Oxford. As a printer’s apprentice, she has made books, broadsides, and ephemera by letterpress printing, which informs her research in historical bookmaking and typography. In her free time, she runs juggling club meetings in the Midwest, New England, Old England, and Wales.