Media
Interviews, Conversations, Online Lectures,
Interviews, Conversations, Online Lectures,
& Press Coverage
Professor Epstein has appeared on PBS, NPR, and public radio, in conversation with scholars, journalists, and documentary filmmakers — and has recorded extensive lectures and series for the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the British Library, the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beit Venezia, and the Community Scholar Program.
Television& Film
Broadcast and documentary interviews.
2025
Two Pound Bag Productions (documentary in development, dir. P.J. Posner)
On the Sarajevo Haggadah
The Book That Wouldn’t Burn: The Sarajevo Haggadah’s Survival Story
Heritage Media Group (documentary in development, dir. Walter Schlomann)
On the history of the Star of David
From Margins to Center: The Making of the Star of David
2014
Marc Michael Epstein Extended Interview · April 11, 2014
On the Sarajevo Haggadah and the material culture of Passover
Radio& Audio Interviews
Radio broadcasts and produced audio, on the occasion of the major monographs.
Public Interest Podcast, Ep. 86
On Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink
On The Medieval Haggadah
On The Medieval Haggadah
Recorded Lectures& Series
Distinguished lectureships and featured talks, followed by the full archive of Community Scholar Program online series.
Distinguished Lectureships, Featured
2024
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Celebrity Lectures · April 30, 2024
Art as Evidence: Jewish Manuscripts and the Archeology of Jewish Life
Library of Congress, Hebraic Section (African & Middle Eastern Division), Washington, DC
Live! at the Library of Congress · March 28, 2024
Joel’s Women: Joel ben Simeon, the Washington Haggadah, and the Ambivalent Feminine
2022
UCLA CMRS & The Getty — Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts: Transcultural Interpretation and Transmission
International conference · April 27, 2022
Detectives in the Archives: A Mysterious Absence in the Rothschild Pentateuch in Transcultural Context
2021
2020
British Library, London
Illustrated lecture · December 3, 2020
Jews, Gentiles, Men, Women … and Monsters
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome — Art as Dialogue
Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Jewish Studies · May 22, 2020
Getting Emotional: Jews, Christians, Sentiment, and the Visual
2016
Stanford University — The David S. Lobel Visiting Scholar Lecture
Taube Center for Jewish Studies · June 14, 2016
Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jews, Art, Identity, and Politics
2012
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The David Berg Foundation Lecture · May 3, 2012 · presented with the exhibition The Rylands Haggadah: Medieval Jewish Art in Context
Bad Boy: Portrait of the Rylands Haggadah as Naughty Sibling
2011
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
May 3, 2011
On Crucifixion with the Donor Brother Aurelius of Emael — as a mirror and a window
Community Scholar Program, Featured Series
The Community Scholar Program of Orange County is one of the most significant adult Jewish education programs in North America — a consortium that brings leading scholars and rabbis into continuous dialogue with its community, offering multi-part series, single lectures, and conversations with invited guests across history, text, philosophy, art, and culture. In recognition of more than a decade of sustained engagement, Professor Epstein was honored with CSP’s Maimonides Award for Excellence in Adult Jewish Education in 2024.
Judaism: The Big Questions
November 2025
Images of a People: Jews in Art
November – December 2024
Artifacts of Identity: Jews & Material Culture
April – May 2024
Jesus Back by Popular Demand
December 2023
Danger! Women With Books
November 2023
Jesus the Jew
May 2023
Hassidus
November 2022
Detectives in the Archives
October 2021
Secrets of the Torah Revealed
2021 · various months
Jews on the Dark Side
November 2020
Inside the Jewish Mind
May – June 2020
Single Lectures
2020 – 2021
Conversations with Friends & Colleagues
Other Featured Videos
2022
2020
The Akedah Project · a JewishLIVE partnership
929 English · BINA · Oshman Family JCC · September 22, 2020
The Greatest Works of Visual Art Depicting the Akedah
Podcasts
Guest appearances on Jewish scholarship, culture, and liturgy podcasts.
Interleaved: A Talmudic Podcast
Pesachim No. 6 — “Every Spring is Illuminated”: on the Birds’ Head Haggadah, medieval illuminated Haggadot, and why they matter.
Print& Online Interviews
Extended interviews and exchanges in scholarly and cultural publications.
Alan Brill — The Book of Doctrines and Opinions
“Marc Michael Epstein on Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts” — a long-form interview on the occasion of Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink, June 2015.
Press Coverage& Citation
Selected scholarly citations of Professor Epstein’s work, alongside cultural responses to it.
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