Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza
Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole
Thursday, May 14
7:00-9:00 pm
The Oriental Institute
1155 East 58th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Breasted Hall
Free for members; $10 for non-members
Writers Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole will take us inside a remarkable time capsule: the Cairo Geniza. MacArthur Fellowship-winning poet and translator Peter Cole and Acclaimed essayist and biographer Adina Hoffman are coauthors of Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza, winner of the 2011 American Library Association prize for the Jewish book of the year.
This special lecture is in connection with the Oriental Institute Special Exhibit A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Old Cairo.
