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Collector’s Tour of “The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries – Featuring Highlights from the Hartman Family Collection of Manuscripts and Rare Books”
Join Collector Robert Hartman for a guided tour of "The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries," illuminating the life and impact of the multifaceted luminary and great Jewish sage across continents and cultures through rare manuscripts and books. Exhibition highlights include manuscripts in Maimonides’s own handwriting, a carved 11th century door to the Torah ark from Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue, and beautifully illuminated medieval manuscripts.
Robert Hartman, a prominent Chicago-based business and lay leader, has amassed a wide-ranging collection of manuscripts and rare printed Maimonidean material over the past twenty-five years.
Free admission but reservations are required. For reservations, please email RSVP@yum.cjh.org. Limited space.