Dr. Theodor Herzl Gaster, professor of comparative religion at Dropsle College, Philadelphia, has been appointed chief of the Hebraic section of the Orientalia Division of the Library of Congress, Dr. Luther H. Evans, acting librarian, announced today. As chief of the Hebraic section, he will “direct the preparation of bibliographies and guides designed to inorease the usefulness of the library’s Somitic collection of approximately 40,000 volumes.”
Dr. Gaster, born in London, is the son of the late Moses Gaster, chief rabbi of the Sephardic Congregation of London. He was curator of Semitic and Egyptian collections at Wellcome Research Institution at London in 1928 to 1932 and from 1936 to 1938; research staff member of Library of Jewish Information of American Jewish Committee from 1939 to 1942 in New York City and in 1942 consultant bibliographer in Davidson Library at the College of the City of New York.
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