Mrs. Emma Schaver, the well-known American concert singer, formerly of Detroit and now a resident of Jerusalem, presented some 600 books in Yiddish to the Hebrew University last week, The gift was part of a private library of Mrs, Schaver and her late husband, Morris Schaver. Some of the books were found in bad condition in Warsaw by Mr. Schaver in the late 1930s and were later reconditioned, Among the books are Yiddish translations of Josephus Flavius, H.G. Wells, Heinrich Heine and Anatole France, the latter two as complete sets of eight and ten volumes, respectively. There is also an anthology of 500 years of Yiddish poetry, published in 1917.
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