1. Irvin Ungar was born on 1948 and is an American former pulpit rabbi and antiquarian bookseller, considered the foremost expert on the artist Arthur Szyk.
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Irvin Ungar was born in 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey and graduated from Trenton Central High School in 1966.
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Irvin Ungar moved to Burlingame, California in 1980 to serve as a rabbi for Peninsula Temple Sholom.
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In 1987, Irvin Ungar founded Historicana, becoming an antiquarian book dealer specializing in historic Judaica.
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Irvin Ungar's increasing interest in Arthur Szyk changed the direction and scope of Historicana in key ways.
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Irvin Ungar first encountered Arthur Szyk's art in 1975, when he purchased a copy of The Haggadah illustrated by Szyk from Bloch Publishing Company in New York.
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Shortly afterward, Irvin Ungar met another antiquarian, Hallam Webber, at a Washington, DC book fair.
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On three separate occasions, Irvin Ungar has been invited to speak on Szyk at the Library of Congress.
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Additionally, Irvin Ungar has been invited to speak at numerous universities and institutions in the United States and abroad.
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Sherwin's most significant collaboration with Irvin Ungar was the creation of a new edition of Szyk's Haggadah, originally published in 1940.