A catalogue of Jewish manuscripts from at least three famous collections is being prepared at the Institute of Asiatic Peoples of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, according to a dispatch from the Soviet Union received here today. The catalogue, envisaged as one of inestimable value to scholars of Hebraica and Judaica, is scheduled to appear shortly under the editorship of two Soviet scholars, K. Starkova and A. Ginsburg.
The catalogue will be based on the collections left by the late Leo Friedland, a St. Petersburg banker and philanthropist under the Czarist regime; Prof. Daniel A. Chovol-son, a Jew who converted to Christianity to hold the chair of Hebrew and Syriac at the University of St. Petersburg; and a famous collection by David Maggid.
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