Jews of Germany collection of manuscripts and documents
Item
Country
US
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
eng
Contact information: postal address
Sterling Memorial Library. 120 High Street, 06511 New Haven, CT
Contact information: phone number
001 (203) 432 1735
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
mssa.assist@yale.edu
Reference number
MS 1937
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (official language of the state)
Jews of Germany collection of manuscripts and documents
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
Yale University Library. Judaica Collection
Date(s)
1674/1897
Language(s)
deu
heb
yid
Extent
1 linear metre (4 boxes)
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
This collection is composed of manuscripts and printed documents concerning Jewish communities in Germany from the 17th to the 19th century, including correspondence, financial records, communal and rabbinic documents, among other materials. It contains materials related to the Jewish community of Hamburg since the 18th century, in which it is possible to find documentation related to Sephardic Jews. Special attention should be paid to the following two units:
Box 1, folder 40: Correspondence and documents concerning the Jewish community of Hamburg, 1769-1845.
Box 4, folder 1: Documents concerning the Jewish community in Hamburg and environs, 1788-1814.
Box 1, folder 40: Correspondence and documents concerning the Jewish community of Hamburg, 1769-1845.
Box 4, folder 1: Documents concerning the Jewish community in Hamburg and environs, 1788-1814.
Archival history
The collection was transferred from the Judaica Collection to the Manuscripts and Archives Repository in 2016.
Administrative / Biographical history
Yale has a long and rich tradition in the study of Jewish religion, history, and thought dating back to Yale's founding when the Hebrew language was a required course of study. An undergraduate major in Judaic Studies, and a graduate program training future academic leaders, was begun in the mid-1980s.
Following the receipt of two major gifts in 1915, the Yale Library established a separate Judaica collection, which is recognised as one of the major collections of Judaica in the USA. The focus of the approximately 300,000-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 of the broader academic community.
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. Special features include the Alexander Kohut Memorial Collection of Judaica, Selah Merrill Collection of Josephus, the Goodhart Collection of Philo imprints, and the Sholem Asch Collection, a collection of illuminated Jewish marriage contracts, and a collection of Jewish illuminated votive plaques.
Following the receipt of two major gifts in 1915, the Yale Library established a separate Judaica collection, which is recognised as one of the major collections of Judaica in the USA. The focus of the approximately 300,000-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 of the broader academic community.
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. Special features include the Alexander Kohut Memorial Collection of Judaica, Selah Merrill Collection of Josephus, the Goodhart Collection of Philo imprints, and the Sholem Asch Collection, a collection of illuminated Jewish marriage contracts, and a collection of Jewish illuminated votive plaques.
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System of arrangement
Records are arranged geographically.
Access, restrictions
The materials are open for research.
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Author of the description
Carla Vieira, 2022
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