Dear Safranim, FYI: another one of these Czech memorial scrolls is also held at Florida International University.
This query leads me to post another related question: at the University of Florida we have a Torah scroll in our collection identified by the Machon OT institute as having been produced in Russia in 1934. Its script type, AriZal, suggests that it came from a Chassidic community. I don't have any information to tell me how it got to the United States, I only know that it was purchased from Chicago in the 1970s or 80s for a synagogue in Jacksonville, FL (now closed), but it is not described anywhere as a "Holocaust Torah." Can anyone tell me anything more about Torah Scroll production at that time? Were scrolls commissioned from Eastern Europe for use in the US, or should I assume that its provenance means that it was rescued at some point? Thanks! Rebecca ---------- Rebecca Jefferson, PhD Head, Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica Department of Special and Area Studies Collections George A. Smathers Libraries University of Florida Gainesville, FL. 32611-7010 Phone: (352) 273-2650 (Library West) (352) 273-2865 (Judaica Suite) Fax: (352) 392-8118 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UFPriceLibrary Website: http://uflib.ufl.edu/judaica/ ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Hirsch, David [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 12:17 PM To: hasafran <[email protected]> Subject: [ha-Safran] Holocaust Torah Scrolls at university libraries? Shalom from Los Angeles! Do any of you know of Sifre Torah saved from the Holocaust that are held in university library collections? This was a query from a librarian colleague in Virginia. Virginia Commonwealth University recently received one as a gift. Any others? Thanks! David David G. Hirsch Librarian for Middle Eastern Studies Charles Young Research Library UCLA Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 USA Tel: +1 310 825 2930 Fax: + 1 310 825 3777 efax: +1 707 313 7712 email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
