Acclaimed author Jonathan Safran Foer talks to @TimDSamuels on the BBC TV programme The Culture Show - about the new version of the Haggadah which he has edited. The Passover book includes four commentaries and a new translation by Nathan Englander.

Ibn Butlan, Theatrum Sanitatis
Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, 4182
Lombardy, Italy, 1390s
[Facsimile at UCSC: ND3399.I15 M65 1999]

The cover is wrapped in a midnight blue leather. There are also wooden strips on the front and on the back. The front cover has 8 wooden pieces with 4 wooden strips on the bottom layer and then 4 layed over the top. Alternatively there are 9 wooden…

Identifier: crusadersorscene00keig Title: The crusaders; or, Scenes, events, and characters, from the times of the crusades Year: 1859 (1850s) Authors: Keightley, Thomas, 1789-1872 Subjects: Crusades Publisher: London J.W. Parker Contributing…

When Upton Sinclair, famous author and lifetime Socialist, won the Democratic primary for governor of California in 1934 in a landslide--leading the greatest mass movement in the state's history--all hell broke loose there and across the country. To…

Standing clockwise around the cow are Roy; Dean E. in the arms of his mother, Virginia Hilton McHenry; Mrs. Charles Bachelor holding a dog named Busy; and Eurnice Virginia. Seated in the foreground is Chancellor McHenry’s father, William Thomas…

The McHenry Farm, Lompoc, California, 1912. Standing in front of the house in which Chancellor McHenry was born are, from left to right, his sister, Eunice Virginia; his brother Roy; his mother; the photographer’s wife, Mrs. Charles Bachelor; and…