CURATOR OF THE EDWARD KIEV JUDAICA COLLECTION
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Shalom Safranim
I am sorry I didn't send this official George washingtomn University
press release before:
GW'S GELMAN LIBRARY APPOINTS BRAD SABIN HILL AS CURATOR OF THE
EDWARD KIEV JUDAICA COLLECTION
Hill Brings Extensive Knowledge of Hebraic Scholarship to University
The George Washington University's Gelman Library System is pleased
to announce that Brad Sabin Hill will become the curator of the I.
Edward Kiev Judaica Collection in December, 2007. Hill comes to GW
with extensive knowledge and experience in Hebraic and Judaic
bibliography and librarianship.
"I am delighted to welcome Brad Hill as curator of GW?s Kiev
Collection," said Steven Mandeville-Gamble, head of the special
collections department at Gelman Library. "In his capacity, Hill will
work with students and faculty - as well as scholars from around the
world - to help them gain access to and effectively interpret the
rich content of this collection."
Prior to joining GW, Hill served as dean of the library and senior
research librarian at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research in New
York (2002-2007). He also has held positions in Britain and Canada,
as librarian and fellow in Hebrew Bibliography at the Oxford Center
for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (1996-2001), as head of the Hebrew
Section of the British Library (1989-1996), and as curator of Rare
Hebraica in the National Library of Canada (1979-1989).
Hill has authored a number of books and articles on Hebrew
bibliography and booklore, including Incunabula, Hebraica & Judaica
and Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust. He has published studies on
Hebrew typography and Hebrew libraries, as well as on Yiddish
manuscripts and bibliography. Hill was curator of several rare
Hebraica exhibitions in Ottawa, London, and New York, including a
display of early Hebrew printing and Spinozist writings in Yiddish.
Formerly a member of the Oriental Faculty of the University of
Oxford, Hill is a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a senior
associate of the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies.
The I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection at GW was established in 1996
with the donation of the personal library of Rabbi I. Edward Kiev,
late chief librarian of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion in New York. The original donation of about 18,000 books,
pamphlets, periodicals, and manuscripts, as well as graphics,
artifacts, maps and Jewish music, has grown to over 22,000 volumes.
Comprising both Hebraica and western-language Judaica, GW's Kiev
Collection covers the range of Jewish studies, from biblical exegesis
and rabbinic texts to archeology, Jewish history, and modern Hebrew
literature. Together with German-Jewish scholarship and extensive
Judaic bibliographic literature on which Kiev was an expert, the
collection holds Hebraica printed over the last five centuries and is
especially rich in books from Central and Eastern Europe. The Kiev
Collection is housed in its own reading room in The Gelman Library.
For more information about The Gelman Library System, visit
www.gwu.edu/gelman/ or call (202) 994-6455.
Shana tova.
Shmuel Ben-Gad,
Gelman Library,
George Washington University.
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