Americans Send Books and Documents to Hebrew University Library

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Further acquisitions of the Hebrew University Library were announced here.

Among the recent gifts are a collection of statistical periodicals presented by Sir Herbert Samuel; The coilection of Palestine News, which was published in Egypt during the War and is now very rare, was given the Library by D. James, of Cairo; The publications of the Hispanic Society of America, which fosters research with regard to the history of the early settlement of Europeans in America was also received.

Emanuel Hertz, of New York, who has already donated several thousand volumes to the Library, sent a further gift of three hundred French books including many rare old editions; and through the kind offices of Bernard Flexner the Library received the Monographs and Studies of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

The Committee of the Library in Rome has forwarded a collection of very old rare books pertaining to the history of the Jews in Italy. Among them is included “L’Ebraismo della Sicilia” by Giovanno di Giovanni, published in 1748.

The Warsaw Committee of the Library sent a very valuable collection on Mathematics, Physics, and Astronomy, being the collection of Chaim Yehiel Bornstein, as well as a collection of books on fiction and books on art, the gift of Mrs. Mira Lubrzynska.

The Library has acquired from the Government of India the Review of Agricultural Operations in India in 1925-1926 by D. Clauston.

David Levy, son of the late Ezra Levy, has presented to the Library seventy-nine volumes of Rabbinical lore out of the collection of his father.

Miss Fannie Hurst presented the Library with a number of her recent works.

The collection of autographs of the Library has been added to. Mrs. Ratner, the sister of the late philosopher Gregor Itelson. whose philosophical collection was donated to the Library, has sent some documents relating to the life of Itelson. They include a poem by Pushkin, which was translated by Itelson and set to music by Anton Rubinstein. The manuscript presented to the Library is written by Itelson and signed by Rubinstein.

On the initiative of Prof. Conrad, the Government Institute of Meterology in Vienna has presented the Library with letters signed by Dr. Max Margolis, the founder of modern theoretic meterology.

Professor S. H. Chajes, the Chief Rabbi of Vienna has sent a letter written by his grandfather, the well-known scholar Zwi Hirsch Chajes.

The Library has also acquired through its Warsaw Committee two Hebrew letters written by the well-known German Orthodox Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. These letters are of particular value as they are written in Hebrew and very few Hebrew letters of Rabbi Hirsch are in existence.