Curating Jewish Type Collections

with Shani Avni
Ismar David Visiting Assistant Curator
RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection

Explore the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection’s rare Hebrew/Yiddish wood type, used by Jewish-American printers around 1900. This newly restored collection offers insights into immigrant presses in the U.S., the cultural impact of Jewish communities, the Yiddish language, and the transformation of Hebrew script into movable type. Speaker Shani Avni will share her work with this “living archive” in teaching, printing, and research.
Free

Shani Avni is the Ismar David Visiting Assistant Curator at the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection since 2020. She holds a BA in Graphic Design from Shenkar College, and an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading.