(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Dr. Ch. Weizmann, who was in Roumania during the time of the anti-Jewish excesses and desecrations in Transylvania has sent to the Hebrew University and Jewish National Library a piece of a Scroll of the Law which was torn in the student riots.
Emmanuel Hertz of New York has donated to the library a rare sixteenth century edition of Cicero’s works in ten volumes.
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