“To Have and to Hold: Preserving Jewish Intellectual Culture”
Certainly since Qumran, Jewish cultural institutions haveestablished library repositories to preserve not only their sacred textualtraditions but also Jewish intellectual culture.Whether housed in private collections or public institutions this drive tocollect and preserve has remained a Jewish cultural priority ever since. Thistalk will tour some of the remarkable results of that drive, focusing on thecollections of the Reform movement’s flagship library, the Klau Library ofHebrew Union College in Cincinnati.
“To Have and to Hold: Preserving Jewish Intellectual Culture”
Certainly since Qumran, Jewish cultural institutions haveestablished library repositories to preserve not only their sacred textualtraditions but also Jewish intellectual culture.Whether housed in private collections or public institutions this drive tocollect and preserve has remained a Jewish cultural priority ever since. Thistalk will tour some of the remarkable results of that drive, focusing on thecollections of the Reform movement’s flagship library, the Klau Library ofHebrew Union College in Cincinnati.
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