A crate from the Soviet Union containing two ancient Torahs and microfilms of 160 rare old Hebraic manuscripts has been received by Dr. Abraham I. Katsh, chairman of New York University’s Department of Hebrew Culture and Education, it was reported here this week-end.
The material in the crate was part of a cultural exchange arranged last year when Dr. Katsh spent two weeks in the USSR studying Hebrew and Jewish material available in the Leningrad and Moscow public libraries and the Oriental Institute. In return for the microfilms and others received before, Dr. Katsh has shipped some 250 books of ancient and modern Hebrew literature, grammar, history, linguistics and general research to the Oriental Institute and the Leningrad Library.
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