Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections
Phone: 573-7431 Office: 205 Van Pelt Library on MTR; 202 CAJS Library on WF E-mail:
Arthur Kiron is Curator of Judaica Collections at the Penn Library and
Adjunct Assistant Professor of History in the History Department. Kiron
manages and develops the Judaic collections throughout the University of
Pennsylvania Library system and supervises the Center for Advanced Judaic
Studies Library. His areas of subject specialization are in Atlantic
Jewish history and the history of the Jewish book.
Among his recent
publications related to his research interests are: "An Atlantic Jewish Republic of Letters?," Jewish History vol. 20, no. 1 (Spring 2006); La Casa editrice Belforte e l'arte della stampa in Ladino -
The Belforte Publishing House and the art of Ladino printing, Translated into Italian by Silvia Guastalla (Livorno : S.
Belforte, 2005); "Mythologizing 1654," Jewish Quarterly Review vol. 94, no. 4 (Fall 2004), pp. 583-94; "Varieties of Haskalah: Sabato Morais' Program of Sephardic Rabbinic Humanism in Victorian America," in Reconfiguring Jewish Culture from Al-Andalus to the Haskalah, eds. Adam Sutcliffe and Ross Brann (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003), pp. 121-45; and "Livornese Traces in American Jewish History: Sabato Morais and Elijah Benamozegh," Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi nel Centenario della morte di Elia Benamozegh (Milan: De Pas Editrice, 2002), pp. 41-62.
Kiron currently serves on the International Academic Advisory Board for Sephardic Studies/Livorno, Italy, the Advisory Board of the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center, the Academic Advisory Board of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the Board of Trustees of the American Veterans of Israel (Machal), and the editorial board of the Association of Jewish Libraries.
