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Hebraic Section
The Hebraic Section of the
Library of Congress has long
been recognized as one of the
world's foremost centers for
the study of Hebrew and Yiddish
materials.
Established in 1914 as part of the Division
of Semitica and Oriental Literature, its
beginnings can be traced to Jacob H.
Schiff's gift in 1912 of nearly 10,000
books and pamphlets from the private
collection of Ephraim Deinard, a well known bibliographer and bookseller
who combed the world in search of rare
Hebrew books and manuscripts
In the years since this initial gift, the
Library has developed and expanded its
Hebraic holdings to include all materials
of research value in Hebrew and cognate
languages. Today the section houses
works m Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo- Persian, Judeo-Arabic, Aramaic, and
Syriac.
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