If you spend any time at all with people under the age of, say, 12, you might — might — know about Object Shows. An Object Show is, for the grown-ups, an animated series that features a large cast of ...

Start with a Talmud tractate, with its colorfully folkloric floral cover, from 1721 Frankfurt. Juxtapose that with a photograph of scruffy, gun-wielding, buggy-riding “Jewish gauchos” from 1906 ...

The objects are as small as a tepary bean and as big as San Xavier del Bac. Some are quite old, like the spear points left behind some 13,000 years ago by the Paleo-Indians called Clovis. Some are as ...