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Library Resources
The Yale Library Judaica holdings have grown slowly
but steadily since the University's founding in 1701.
Following the receipt of two major gifts in 1915, the
Yale Library established a separate Judaica collection
which is recognized as one of the major collections
of Judaica in the country. The focus of the over 100,000
volume collection, which includes manuscripts and rare
books, is biblical, classical, medieval, and modern
periods of Jewish literature and history, and supports
the research needs of the faculty and students of the
University's Judaic Studies Program and those of the
broader academic community.
The
social, religious, and cultural lives of the Jewish
people are reflected in the Library's collections. Religious
law, Sephardic studies, rabbinics, Jewish philosophy
and modern thought, talmud, and Hebrew, Yiddish, and
Ladino languages and literatures are all represented
in the collection.
Rare
materials are housed in the Manuscripts and Archives
Department of the Sterling Memorial Library and in the
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Among the
rare and unusual Judaica at the Beinecke Library are
some 200 manuscripts and 45 incunabula (books printed
before 1501). Special features of this impressive holding
include the Alexander Kohut Memorial Collection of Judaica,
Selah Merrill Collection of Josephus, the Goodhart Collection
of Philo imprints, and the Sholem Asch Collection. Manuscripts
of a political nature can be found in the Department
of Manuscripts and Archives. Items of interest include
the papers of the Palestine Statehood Committee. Yale's
official records documenting the history of Jews at
Yale are also housed in Manuscripts and Archives.
The
Judaica Reading and Reference Room is located in 335B
of the Sterling Memorial Library. It is open during
Library hours to Yale students, faculty and visiting
scholars. The office of the Judaica Curator, Nanette
Stahl, is attached to the Reading Room. She can be reached
by e-mail at nanette.stahl@yale.edu
and by phone: (203)432-7207. For the library's Judaica
web site, with links to other Judaica resources, click
here.
Links
At Yale University
Hebrew Program
The
Judaic Studies Undergraduate Major
Judaic
Studies Courses
Yale Online
Course Information
Graduate
School Admissions
Yale
University Library Judaica Collection
Student Grants
& Fellowships at Yale:
Jerrold
P. Fuchs Summer Scholarship in Yiddish Language
Outside
Yale University
Academic Jewish
Studies Internet Directory
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