Sacred Trash: the lost and found world of the Cairo Genizah

A talk by Peter Cole and Adina Hoffman
February 9, 2012
7:00 p.m.
UF Hillel

Described by the literary critic Harold Bloom as “a small masterpiece,” Sacred Trash (Nextbook Press, 2011) tells the exciting story of the greatest discovery of Jewish manuscripts ever made. Its authors are award winning biographer and critic Adina Hoffman and acclaimed poet and translator Peter Cole. Hoffman and Cole are regular visiting fellows at Yale University, Wesleyan University and Middlebury College.

This event is made possible by the Isser and Rae Price Library Endowment Fund and the Gary Gerson Lecture Series in Jewish Studies.

Sponsored by the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica and the Center for Jewish Studies.

Image courtesy of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library