• Pamela

    More Than Just a Book to Read

    Natalie and I both read Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird this summer after going to a screening of a restored film print at the Billy Wilder Theater at the UCLA Hammer Museum. While we were reading the novel, we happened upon a wonderful exhibit at Loyola Marymount University’s Hannon Library titled the “Saraval Collection: Reproductions of Rare Hebrew Manuscripts Spanning Seven Centuries.”  (SEE NOTE BELOW ABOUT SARAVAL COLLECTION) The text by Monika Jaremków included this interesting observation: “More Than Just a Book to Read”: “Books are not limited to literary and scholarly texts; they are real objects created throughout the ages, with the use of different materials, by people…