The I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection
Gelman Library System
The George Washington University
cordially invites you to a talk given by
Zachary M. Baker,
Reinhard Family Curator of Judaica and Hebraica Collections,
Stanford University Libraries
on the
Taube-Baron Collection of Jewish History and Culture
and the
Samson/Copenhagen Judaica Collection
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
3:00 p.m.
I. Edward Kiev Room
Gelman Library, rm. 710
Professor Salo Wittmayer Baron (1895-1989) of Columbia University,
held the first Jewish History chair established in the United States
(1930-1963). His 20,000-volume collection was purchased by Stanford
in 1985 and includes Hebrew editions of the Bible dating from the
15th century, rare volumes of Jewish literature and history from
Eastern Europe and around the world, works on Jewish Americana,
Jewish anthropology and sociology, and thousands of pamphlets and journals.
The Samson Collection, acquired by Stanford in 2003, includes close
to 2,000 works printed in over 115 locations from 1517 to 1939. These
books cover a wide range of topics, including Bible and Talmud texts
and commentaries, Jewish law and ritual, Jewish liturgy, rabbinical
responsa, treatises on Jewish law (halakhah), scientific works in
Hebrew, kabbalah, apologetics, bibliography, the sciences, ephemeral
publications relating to the Jewish communities of Denmark and other
Northern European countries, and even poetry. The books in the Samson
Collection belonged to the Jewish Community of Copenhagen, Denmark,
until the early 1980s, when they were purchased by Herman R. Samson,
a native of Copenhagen.
For more information, call
(202) 994-7549 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shmuel Ben-Gad,
Gelman Library,
George Washington University.
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