In commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the death of Dr. Alexander Kohut, almost synchronous with his ninety-first birthday, the library of Yale University has scheduled an exhibit of rare books and early prints, comprising mainly items from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The nucleus of the Yale collection is the library of Dr. Alexander Kohut, given to Yale University fifteen years ago by his son, Dr. George Kohut. It is particularly rich in talmudic and rabbinic literature and has quite a complete collection of the most important Jewish periodicals in all languages.
Dr. George Kohut has recently presented to Yale University a collection of four hundred volumes pertaining to Heinrich Heine, the seventy-fifth anniversary of whose death was celebrated throughout the world in March 1932. It has fine examples of all his first editions, including all the original periodicals in which Heine’s prose and verses first appeared, making the Kohut Heine Collection at Yale the most important of its kind in any public library. Professor Carl F. Schreiber, Curator of the famous Speck Collection of Goetheana at Yale, has published a brief description of the Kohut Heine Collection in the Yale library Gazette several months ago.
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