The local society for aiding the Hebrew University in Jerusalem has just gathered 2,300 volumes of every description from Poland for the library of the university. Including these volumes the local society has obtained more than 41,000 books for the Hebrew University library.
At the end of June the Hebrew University library, founded in 1925, had 230,000 catalogued volumes, of which 95,000 were in German, 44,000 in English, 38,200 in Hebrew, 12,000 in French, 9,000 in Russia and 8,700 in Yiddish. In the last year 14,000 volumes were added, 38 percent (5,300) of which were Judaica, including 2,251 in Hebrew; 2,266 were added to the medical department, 1,260 to the collection on sociology and pedagogy and 700 to the natural sciences and mathematical department. The library receives more than 1,500 newspapers and periodicals.
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