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Noam Sienna is a scholar of Jewish history and culture in the early modern Islamic world, with particular interests in book history and material culture. He holds the Deinard Memorial Chair in Jewish History at the University of Minnesota, and is also a Senior Fellow with the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. In addition to his academic study of book history, he is also a practicing book artist whose work brings together historical and contemporary expressions of Jewish visual and textual culture, focusing on reviving and preserving traditions of Hebrew calligraphy and Jewish letterpress printing.