David Stern

David Stern is Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Hebrew and Jewish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University, where he teaches ancient and medieval Jewish literature and the history of the book. His research and publications have spanned the entire length of Jewish literary tradition from the Biblical to the modern periods, but over the last twenty years, it has concentrated on the history of the Jewish book. His publications in that area include The Washington Haggadah by Joel ben Simeon (Harvard University Press, 2011); The Monk’s Haggadah: A Fifteenth Century Illuminated Codex from the Monastery of Tegernsee (Penn State University Press, 2015); and The Jewish Bible: A Material History (University of Washington Press, 2017). He is currently completing the third volume of his collected essays, Jewish Literary Cultures, and hoping to finish two other books, “An Unsystematic History of the Jewish Book,” and “Unassimilable: The Talmud and Western Culture.”