The library of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem will receive 1, 000 valuable books on Hebrew and Jewish subjects as a gift from Dutch Jewry. A two-man team from the University and the Israel Ministry for Religions has been selecting the volumes.
The books represent the remainder of once great private and public collections owned by Dutch Jews and communal institutions. The collections were destroyed or scattered by the Nazis when they seized their owners and wiped out much of Dutch Jewry during the occupation.
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