Course List and Descriptions - Spring 2014

** A historic collection of ancient Jewish manuscripts, including 14,000 books (45 books published in the 14th century) and more than 2,000 Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts had been assembled by a Russian-Jewish family in the 1840s. In 1917 the collection was purchased by Zionist activists, but was later seized by the Bolshevik revolution. ................
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