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By Dawn’s Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War

The Princeton University Library announces the opening of the exhibition By Dawn’s Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation’s Founding to the Civil War, on Saturday, February 13, 2016 at the Princeton University Art Museum. The exhibition continues through June 12, 2016 and is open to the public free of charge.

By Dawn’s Early Light showcases a rich variety of Jewish voices and imagery from the first decades of the American Republic. Among the more than 170 objects displayed are some of the earliest novels, poems, religious works, paintings, photographs, newspapers and scientific treatises produced by Jews in the United States.

Imperial Portraits at Marquand Library

Marquand Library exhibits two elegant books of portraits by Jacopo Strada.

Hokusai Manga at Marquand Library

Marquand Library features Katsushika Hokusai’s 19th century manga series through the end of November.

Annotated Books Digitized

The Library's annotated books today provide evidence not only for historians of reading but also for anyone interested in how and why the mentalité of an era was formed. See what has been digitized!