Jewish Studies  

News: The sources added to the Bar-Ilan Responsa Project Online including volume 30 of the Talmudic Encyclopedia (4/9/2013)

Featured Acquisition: Ellen Davina Haskell (Ph.D., Divinity, 2005). Suckling at My Mother's Breasts: The Image of a Nursing God in Jewish Mysticism. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2012.

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Image adapted from the illustration in the prospectus for the Propylaen Facsimile edition of the 15th Century Darmstadt Pessach Haggadah. Ludwig Rosenberger Library of Judaica. Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

Hebrew books and Judaica in other languages have been an integral part of the University of Chicago Library since its founding in 1892. Built by many bibliographers and subject and language specialists over the years, the collections are shaped by staff and faculty of the University and by the individuals whose private collections have been acquired and integrated into the Library's collections. The largest of these is the Ludwig Rosenberger Library of Judaica, a collection of over 17,000 titles documenting the social, cultural, and political history of the Jewish people. The Rosenberger Collection is available in the Special Collections Research Center.

The Judaica and Hebraica collection today includes more than 140,000 physical volumes as well as rich resources in microfilm. The Judaica collections enrich the Library's general holdings and are strengthened by the wealth of related and cognate materials available in the general collections.

For more information, see the "Overview of the Collection" tab above.

Judith Nadler
Director of the Library
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Anne K. Knafl
Bibliographer for Philosophy & Religion
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Nancy Spiegel
Bibliographer for Art and Cinema
Interim Bibliographer for American & European History
Regenstein Library Room 463
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