James Russell to Unravel ‘An Armeno-Hebrew Mystery’ at NAASR

BELMONT, Mass.—Prof. James R. Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University, will give a lecture entitled “An Armeno-Hebrew Mystery: Or, a 1,000-Year-Old Armenian Text in a Cairo Synagogue and the Stories It Tells” on Thurs., Nov. 3 at 8 p.m., at the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR) Center, 395 Concord Ave. in Belmont. In the waning years of the 19th century, a traveling scholar happened by chance on a store-room at the back of a Cai