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Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress, 1912–2012
A century ago, New York philanthropist Jacob H. Schiff purchased an initial collection of nearly 10,000 Hebrew books and pamphlets from bibliophile and book dealer Ephraim Deinard for the Library of Congress. This gift formed the nucleus of what is today one of the world’s greatest collections of Hebraic materials, comprising some 200,000 items. This exhibition features more than 60 items dating from the 7th century through the present.
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Image credit: The Washington Haggadah. Germany, 1478. From the collections of the Hebraic Section, African and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress.
Selected Exhibits and Collections
Blogs & Social Media 3Hide All
Library of Congress 24Hide All
- The Aaron Copland Collection
- The Abraham A. Schwadron “Chad Gadya” Collection (finding aid)
- American Jewish Women: Area Studies Collections
- Annotated Bibliography: The Lawrence Marwick Collection of Copyrighted Yiddish Plays at the Library of Congress (PDF, 1.7Mb)
- Arthur Szyk: Artist for Freedom
- David Diamond Papers, 1915-2003 – Finding Aid
- The Hannah Arendt Papers
- Emile Berliner and the Birth of the Recording Industry
- From Haven to Home: 350 Years of Jewish Life in America
- Felix Mendelssohn at the Library of Congress
- The Leonard Bernstein Collection
- Prints, Photos and Manuscripts from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (World Digital Library)
- Scrolls from the Dead Sea
- Words Like Sapphires: 100 Years of Hebraica at the Library of Congress, 1912-2012
- Yiddish American Popular Sheet Music
- Yiddish American popular songs, 1895-1950
- Yiddish-Language Play Scripts
- Jewish Newspapers
-- The Dreyfuss Affair: Topics in Chronicling America
-- Trial and Lynching of Leo Frank: Topics in Chronicling America - “Condition of the Jews Today” – New-York Daily Tribune, August 25, 1901
- “Future of Judaism in America” – The San Francisco Call, December 10, 1905
- “Some New Books - The Jewish Encyclopedia” – The (New York) Sun, September 28, 1902
- “Part Played by the Hebrew in the History of the Nation and State” – The Salt Lake Herald, November 19, 1905
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
National Archives 7Hide All
- 100 Milestone Documents - Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel (1948)
- Creation of the State of Israel, records from the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum
- Holocaust-Era Assets
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- Jewish American Heritage Month on Flickr
- Preserving the Iraqi Jewish Archive
- World War II Looted Art: Turning History into Justice (in partnership with Google Cultural Institute)
National Endowment for the Humanities 7Hide All
- Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American (site supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (Project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- The Gershwin Initiative (Project supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- The Jews in America (supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum (supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities)
- Repositioning Florida's Judaic Library: Increasing Access to Humanities Resources from Florida, Latin America, and the Caribbean (NEH Challenge Grant recipient)
- Voices from the Shtetl: The Yiddish Memories Project