New York Library Gets Microfilms of Rare Judaica Manuscripts

A collection of rare manuscripts–on microfilm–consisting of Hebraica and Judaica reproduced at the Oriental Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Budapest, became available to scholars today at the New York University’s Library of Judaica and Hebraica; The material is part of the David Kaufmann Collection microfilmed in Russia and Hungary by Professor Abraham I. Katsh, curator of the NYU library;

The new material, heretofore unavailable to scholars in the West, includes micro films of manuscripts pertaining to the Bible, commentaries on Hebrew literature, documents relating to the Mishnah and the Talmud, and works on Hebrew liturgy, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, theology and philosophy.

The new collection is the second received from Hungary, the first having been brought here last July. Altogether now, the augmented David Kaufmann collection consists of 15, 000 rare documents and manuscripts; Some of the documents added now date back to the year 1021; Most of the documents are in Hebrew, but some are in Arabic, Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic and Italian;