Intermountain Jewish news., 1925-11-26
THE JEWISH REALM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Eighty Students ut Jewish
Theological Seminary

ic'tofh VI lnt JeWlhH ihtoloHlNd
Seminary of America, held on No
vember l5, the report Of the presi.
dent. Doctor Cyrus Adler, which was
presented, showed that 20 new stu.
dents were admitted to the Seminary
and So to the Main Department Of
the Teachers Institute. The total
registration ut the Seminary is 80
exclusive of the candidates enrolled
for the postgraduate degrees of Doc
tor of Hebrew Literature and the
Hattarat Horaah, and the total reg.
istration at the Teachers Institute is
413 in all departments.
Professor Israel Davidson has ac-
cepted an invitation to deliver a
course of lectures in 1926 at the new
ly established Institute of Jewish
Studies at the University of Joru-
salem and has been granted a leave
of absence for one year by the Sem
mary. During his stay abroad Doctor
Davidson will gather additional ma
terial for his work on the Thesaurus
of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry.
Doctor Adler represented the Sem
mary at the Jubilee Celebration of
the Hebrew Union College in Cincin-
natl on October 28 and "a. On that
occasion the honorary degree of Doc
tor of Hebrew Law was conferred up
on Doctor Adler by the College. In
comforting this degree the president
of the Hebrew Union College declared
that it was conferred for the follow.
ing reasons:
Devoted, idealistic Jew, indefstig
able worker, able leader in every field
of Jewish endeavor and benefcence
authoritative spokesman of Judaism
and Israel in important councils al
home and abroad, ardent promoter OF
the cause of Jewish education and
scholarship"
Bequests were received from the
estates of Lillian S. Hendricks and
Simon B. Kramer.
The report of Professor Alexander
Marx, librarian, showed that the
Library of the Seminary now has q
total of over $4,000 printed books and
5000 manuscripts. Through the gen
erosity of Mr.. Abraham Erianger the
Library has been able to acquire =
very rare manuscript collection OF
lists of the Autos da Fe, held in Por
tugal during the Inquisition, as wei
as other important books and manu-
, scripts.
Mr.. Mortimer |. Schiff presented
two unique volumes, one an incuna
bulum printed in Spain before tn,
Expulsion, and the other a Ritua! o
the Sicilian Jews, taken by them t.
| their new homes following the Expul
sion from Sicily.
Mr.. Louis Bamberger presented
twenty-five vellum fragments of tn
Samaritan Pentateuch of the Thir
teenth and Fourteenth Centuries;
Persian Hebrew Dictionary and othe
texts written in Persia during tn
Sixteenth Century; number o
Scrolls containing the Book Of Esther
one of them illuminated, as well a
the Book of Lamentations written ol
leather. Doctor A. S. W. Rosenbac'
presented finely bound copy Of Hyp
nerotomachia Poliphili printed b.
Aldus in Venice in 1893. This is, per
haps, the most famous book ever is
sued from the Venice presses and ha
over $50 remarkable illustrations
Doctor Harry Friedenwald donated 6
volumes and 300 pamphlets on Pal
stine and Zionism. Mr.. Scholem Asc
presented a pocketbook of a Ukrain
ian soldier of Warsaw, sewcd out
parchment, which is mcmento @
the terrible sufferings of the Jews o
Southern Russia. Other donation
were received from Misses Jennie an
Ella Hcyman, Mr.. H. G. Friedma
and the Seminary Glass of 1922.
A Seminary House Dinner, to whic
the directors, faculty and student
, were invited, was held at the Sem
nary on Sunday evening, Nov, 10.
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