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Boston Public Library Establishes Judaica Section; Names Curator

January 13, 1954
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Appointment of Fanny Goldstein, as Curator of the newly-established Judaica section of the Boston Public Library, was announced here this week by Milton E. Lord, director. Miss Goldstein, one of the nation’s outstanding librarians, will continue as librarian of the West End Branch of the Boston Public Library, a post she has filled for the past 30 years.

The first Jewish woman to head a public library, Miss Goldstein is also widely known as an educator and lecturer. She was responsible for the idea of a Jewish Book Week, now an annual, national function in American Jewish Life. The collection of Judaica which she began at the West End Branch of the library is the nucleus of the Judaica collection of which she will now be curator.

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