Marc Michael Epstein

Marc  Michael Epstein is Professor of Religion at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he has taught since 1992. He has written on various topics in visual and material culture produced by, for, and about Jews.  His most recent book, The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination (Yale University Press, 2011) was selected by the London Times Literary Supplement as one of the Best Books of the Year. During the 1980s, Epstein was  Director of the Hebrew Books and Manuscripts division of Sotheby’s Judaica department, and continues to serve as consultant to various  libraries, auction houses, museums and private collectors throughout the world.