Jews of Germany collection of manuscripts and documents
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Country
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US
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Language of name of institution
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eng
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Contact information: postal address
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Sterling Memorial Library. 120 High Street, 06511 New Haven, CT
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Contact information: phone number
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001 (203) 432 1735
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Contact information: email
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mssa.assist@yale.edu
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Reference number
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MS 1937
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (official language of the state)
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Jews of Germany collection of manuscripts and documents
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Language of title
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eng
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Creator / accumulator
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Yale University Library. Judaica Collection
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Date(s)
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1674/1897
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Language(s)
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deu
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heb
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yid
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Extent
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1 linear metre (4 boxes)
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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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.
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Archival history
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The collection was transferred from the Judaica Collection to the Manuscripts and Archives Repository in 2016.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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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.
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(source: Judaica Collection. Yale University Library: Manuscripts & Archives)
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System of arrangement
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Records are arranged geographically.
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Access, restrictions
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The materials are open for research.
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Author of the description
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Carla Vieira, 2022
