Inventories of Selected Collections
These inventories of various Special Collections include brief histories, scope notes, and indices to their specific contents.
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Adler Collection
Rabbi Samuel Adler (1809-1891) was a pioneer of the Reform Movement in Germany. In 1857, he became rabbi of the flagship Reform congregation in New York, Temple Emanu-El. On his death, his extensive personal library was bequeathed to the Library of Hebrew Union College where it was kept intact as a separate collection. His library represents the breadth of knowledge with which late-19th century Reform Rabbinical leadership were presumed to be conversant.
Alsace-Lorraine Region Collection 1786-1868
Documents are arranged in three series: Alsace, Lorraine, and Avignon. The general theme is the liquidation of the debts contracted by the Anciennes Communautes before and during the French Revolution and Terror and includes Amsterdam Documents Collection 1753-1939 inventories, personal and communal financial statements, proceedings of debt liquidation, commissions, petitions, bills, and receipts. The Lorraine Region series includes general communal records.
Alsatian Jews Collection
A collection of detailed lists and evaluations of the contents of estates of Jews from little-known villages and towns in the French Alsace
Amsterdam Collection
This collection contains engagement and marriage contracts, documents concerning levirate marriage, contracts of sale or transfer of synagogue seats, loan and marriage agreements, wills, bequests, waivers, receipts, partnership agreements, powers of attorney, inventories, birth, death burial records. The documents have been returned to the Amsterdam community, but are on microfilm.
Benas Levy Collection
Documents relating to the administration of the Jewish Community of Berlin.
Bookplate Inventory
The Jewish Bookplate Collection is a vast collection of bookplates owned primarily by Jews or executed by Jewish graphic artists. The bookplates may be with or without Jewish themes. Included are bookplates of Jewish institutions, of Judaica and Hebraica library collections and non-Jewish bookplates containing Hebrew or Old Testament passages
Consistoire Centrale
Drafts or file copies of letters originating in the Paris office of the Consistoire Central. Letters are addressed to the regional French consistories, to the Ministry of Cults, prefects, and Governor General of Algeria. Prominent themes are predominantly administrative
French Miscellanea Collection
An artificial collection assembled from manuscripts and archives acquired at various times by the Hebrew Union College Library. Other European countries figure in the collections which include personal and official correspondence, scholarly and literary notes, drafts, essays, lecture notes, poems, prayers, communal records, genealogical notes, court log books, etc.