Endowment for the Judaica Collection

Need and opportunities for new endowments exist:

1. *Endowed Book Funds*—which will assure the continued acquisition of Judaica—books, pamphlets, periodicals, ephemera, micropublications, and audio-visual materials—essential to the development of the Judaica Collection.

Book funds may be established with endowments ranging from $5,000 to $100,000.

2. *Endowed Curatorships*—which will provide the Library with the services of skilled scholar-librarians who will assure the continued effectiveness of the Judaica Collection as a resource for scholars and students at Harvard and elsewhere.

Curatorships may be established with endowments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

Library funds can be established either by gift or bequest. Funds can be named for the donor or for a relative or friend. They can be initiated or increased by the joint action of a number of people.

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Endowed book funds and curatorships may be designated for Judaica in general—providing the Library with flexibility in the future to meet changing needs and trends in Jewish Studies. They may, on the other hand, specify an area or topic of particular interest to the donor within the scope of the collection, e.g., Hebraica, Yiddish Literature, French Judaica, German Judaica, Rabbinics, Sephardica, Orientalia, Holocaust, Israel, Sovietica, Americana, Jewish Theatre, Jewish Newspapers and Periodicals, Jewish Art, Jewish Music, Jewish Education, and other topics—providing the Library with resources to assure the development of a particular area within the Judaica Collection.

Book funds and curatorships are among the most personal and enduring of capital gifts, and they offer a wide range of choice to the donor. Your endowment, large or small, will be prudently managed with attention to both current yield and future growth. It will never be exhausted and will forever remain useful for the purpose to which the funds are dedicated.

*The establishment of endowed book funds and curatorships in Judaica at Harvard will form the base for the expansion of Jewish Studies at this great university. The donors of these new endowments will have created sources for scholarly achievement for generations to come.*

WILLIAM LEE FROST
Chairman, Library Committee
Program for the Harvard University
Center for Jewish Studies

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How To Help

כל אילן טת נוטא פרי טת

Gifts to the Program for the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies to establish Judaica book funds and Judaica curatorships will be warmly welcomed. They may be made in cash, securities, pledges, and letters of intent. Arrangements can be made to suit donors who wish to postpone their support. Pamphlets are available describing Harvard's Pooled Income Fund or Charitable Remainder Trusts, and Bequests.

Checks should be made payable to Harvard University and sent to: The Recording Secretary, Harvard University, Holyoke Center 750, 75 Mt. Auburn Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

Certificates representing stocks or bonds (including State of Israel Bonds) to be given to Harvard may be delivered or sent to the Recording Secretary at the above address.

Inquiries about Judaica book funds and Judaica curatorships may be addressed to Charles Berlin, Harvard University, Widener Library M, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138. The telephone number is: (617) 495-2985; (617) 495-3335.

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### Harvard University. Library.

Catalogue of Hebrew books. Cambridge; Distributed by the Harvard University Press. 1968.

6 v. 32 cm.

CONTENTS: v. 1-4. Authors and subjects.—v. 5-6. Titles.

— Supplement I. Cambridge; Distributed by the Harvard University Press, 1972.

3 v. 32 cm.

CONTENTS: v. 1. Classified listing. Appendix: Judaica in the Houghton Library.—v. 2. Authors and selected subjects.—v. 3. Titles. Z7070.H27 Suppl.

1. Hebrew imprints. 2. Jews—Bibliography—Catalogs. I. Title.

Z7070.H27 018.2 rev 68-22416 MARC

Library of Congress (r72d2)

7, 1848-1929.

writings of Rabbi Eliezer Charif. Cambridge, Harvard University Library, 1974.

facsim. 26 cm.

English.
reproduction of Hebrew manuscripts 30, 31 and 32 in Library of the Harvard College Library."

CONTENTS: Hagahot 'al ha-Shas. — Sekhel tov.— Shulban 'arukh.

 Joseph, 1488-1575. Shulban 'arukh—Commentaries. commentaries.

45 1974 74-951083

The Jewish people and Palestine: a bibliophilic pilgrimage through five centuries. A lecture delivered by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, introducing an exhibition from the Judaica collection of the Harvard College Library commemorating the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel, with a catalogue of the exhibition prepared by Charles Berlin. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library, 1973.

15 p., 120 facsim. 28 cm.

### Berlin, Charles, 1936—

Index to festschriften in Jewish studies. Cambridge, Harvard College Library, 1971.

xl, 319 p. 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Festschriften—Jews—Indexes. 2. Jews—Bibliography. I. Title.

Z6366.B45 ISBN 0-87068-123-133-8

016.909'04'924 72-138460 MARC

Library of Congress 71 (4)

Judaica: classification schedule, classified listing by call number, chronological listing, author and title listing. Cambridge: Distributed by the Harvard University Press, 1971.

302 p. 29 cm. (Its Widener Library shelflist. 39)

1. Jews—Bibliography—Catalogs. 2. Classification—Books—Jews. I. Title. II. Series.

Z6375.H36 ISBN 0-674-48720-6

016.910'03'924 78-179663 MARC

### Berlin, Charles, 1936—

xl, 319 p. 24 cm.

1. Festschriften—Jews—Indexes. I. Title.

Library of Congress 71 (4)

### Charif, Eliezer, 1848-1929.

Collected writings of Rabbi Eliezer Charif. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Library, 1974.

363 p. of facsim. 26 cm.

Preface in English.

"Facsimile reproduction of Hebrew manuscripts 30, 31 and 32 in the Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library."

PARTIAL CONTENTS: Hagahot 'al ha-Shas. — Sekhel tov.— Hidushim la-Shulban 'arukh.

### Harvard University.

Catalogue of Hebrew imprints. Cambridge, Harvard University Library, 1968.

6 v. 32 cm.

— Supplement I. Cambridge; Distributed by the Harvard University Library, 1972.

3 v. 32 cm.

1. Hebrew imprints. 2. Hebrew facsim. 3. Hebrew rev. 68-22416 MARC

Library of Congress

1. Caro, Joseph. 1488-1575. Shulban 'arukh—Commentaries.

BUILDING ON STRENGTH

*Teaching, research, and publication reflect Harvard's commitment to Judaica*

AMONG THE COURSES OFFERED AT HARVARD SINCE 1966 Elementary Hebrew ... Intermediate Hebrew: Readings in Modern Hebrew Prose and Poetry ... Advanced Hebrew (Modern): Tradition and Revolt in Modern Hebrew Literature ... Hebrew (Post-Biblical Texts): An Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash ... Hebrew: Philosophical Texts ... Hebrew (Rabbinical Texts): Selections from the Talmud, Midrash, Codes, and Biblical Commentaries ... Hebrew: Medieval Prose and Poetry ... Hebrew (Historical Texts): Sources concerning Emancipation and Enlightenment ... Modern Hebrew Literature ... Hasidism in Modern Hebrew Literature ... The Works of S. J. Agnon ... Hebrew Fiction of the Twentieth Century ... Aramaic Language and Literature ... Ideas of History in Near Eastern Civilizations ... The History of the Jews in Europe to the End of the Eighteenth Century ... Sources of Jewish History, 500-1750 ... Religion and Philosophy in Medieval Judaism ... Maimonides: An Introduction to His Life and Thought ... Classics of the Jewish Tradition ... Problems in Jewish Intellectual History ... The Jews in Muslim Spain ... The Jews in Christian Spain ... Sixteenth Century Historiography ... Jewish Messianism and Sectarianism ... Development and Structure of the Jewish Community ... Jewish Social Thought in Early Modern Times ... Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to French Emancipation ... The Jews of France from the Revolution to Napoleon ... History of the Jews of Poland ... Jews in Modern Times: From the French Revolution to the Emergence of Israel ... Jewish Historiography in Modern Times ... The Jewish Holocaust and the Phenomenon of Genocide.

A SELECTION OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATIONS IN OR RELATING TO JUDAICA Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era: The Age of the Tannaim (G. F. Moore) ... Studies in the History of the Sanhedrin (H. Mantel) ... Books of Jewish Interest from The Loeb Classical Library: Josephus, 9 vols.; Philo, 10 vols. ... Philo and the Oral Law: The Philonic Interpretation of Biblical Law in Relation to the Palestinian Halakah (S. Belkin) ... Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (H. A. Wolfson) ... Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion (H. A. Wolfson) ... Religious Philosophy: A Group of Essays (H. A. Wolfson) ... Crescas' Critique of Aristotle: Problems of Aristotle's Physics in Jewish and Arabic Philosophy (H. A. Wolfson) ... Rabad of Posquières: A Twelfth-Century Talmudist (I. Twersky) ... David Kimhi, The Man and the Commentaries (F. Talmage) ... Jewish Medieval and Renaissance Studies (edited by A. Altmann) ... Public Opinion, Propaganda and Politics in 18th-Century England: A Study of the Jew Bill of 1753 (T. W. Perry) ... Jews and Freemasons in Europe, 1723-1939 (J. Katz) ... Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation (J. Katz) ... Studies in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Intellectual

CONTINUED ON INSIDE BACK COVER

... Judaica at Harvard Merits Our Praise and Requires Our Support...

The Harvard Jewish Studies program enjoys a strong reputation. One would have to be blind not to realize the possibilities of building on that program, not only to preserve Harvard's reputation in the field of Judaica, but more important, to create a Center whose drawing power and influence will be felt throughout the world.

I cannot help but share with you a thought which came to me as I read the draft proposal for the new Center—that with the destruction of great centers of Jewish learning in Europe, there are only two places in the world today where Jewish Studies can be freely pursued: America and Israel. Any effort to preserve and expand one of these, Judaica at Harvard, merits our praise and requires our support.

SIDNEY GOLDMANN '24

Table of Contents

A Special Tradition to Uphold
Derek C. Bok, President 4

This Complex Educational Task
Henry Rosovsky,
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences 5

"Every Book That May Be Helpful"
Douglas Bryant, Director of the University Library 6

Judaica at Harvard: Past, Present, and Beyond 7

Harry A. Wolfson, 1887-1974 11

The Need
Endowment for Instruction 12
Endowment for Fellowships 13
Endowment for the Judaica Collection 14
Endowment for the Center for Jewish Studies 15

The Cost 16

How to Help 17

Who Will Help: The National Committee 18

An imaginative picture of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem often served as a printer's emblem in Hebrew books as here, in *Tikun Sofrim U-Mikra Sofrim*, Constantinople, 1756.

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A Special Tradition to Uphold

Many of the leading universities that concern
themselves with the history, philosophy, and liter-
ature of the world's great cultures are committed
to Jewish Studies.

At Harvard, we have a special tradition to uphold
in Jewish Studies—the tradition exemplified by the
teaching and scholarship of the late Harry Wolfson,
and the steady growth of books and other scholarly
materials that have culminated in a Judaica Col-
lection unequalled at an American university.

With this tradition on which to build, we are
determined to insure the continued vitality of teach-
ing and research in this important field for genera-
tions to come. I hope that all those who value high-
er learning will join us in supporting the Program
for the Harvard University Center for Jewish
Studies.

Derek C. Bok
PRESIDENT

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This Complex
Educational Task

In recent years, Jewish Studies at universities in the United States and abroad have undergone a renaissance. The success of these programs, urgently in need of competent faculty, depends upon the time and talent of scholars and the financial support of patrons. As trained scholars go forth as teachers, and pursue and publish their research, and as institutions develop their libraries, the goal of fostering a broad understanding and appreciation of the Jewish cultural heritage moves closer to realization. In this complex educational task, Harvard has a responsibility to lead the way.

Harvard's program in Jewish Studies enjoys a preeminent reputation. As the first university to establish a chair in Jewish Studies (the Nathan Litauer Professorship of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy), it is appropriate that Harvard now respond to the growing interest in Judaica by expanding its own program and creating a Center for Jewish Studies. Such a Center will not only satisfy the unmistakable need for further growth at the University, but also benefit the study and teaching of Judaica throughout the country.

Henry Rosovsky
DEAN OF THE FACULTY
OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

The Harvard Library's oldest Hebrew manuscript, Maimonides' code of Jewish law, the *Mishneh Torah*; Toledo, Spain; 1260.

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The
Alperin-Epstein
Book Fund for Judaica
in the Harvard College Library

Established in memory of
Shol Alperin and Annie Usem Alperin

and in memory of
Boris Epstein and Celia Charif Epstein

Presented by their children
Jordan L. Alperin, '32
and Esther T. Alperin, '34

Writing of Harvard's Judaica Collection, Professor Wolfson once described the Library's objective as "to acquire every book that may be helpful to the scholar in his researches or the presence of which may be stimulative to new researches." This is an elusive objective, but it has guided our collecting efforts in this field.

Comprehensive holdings of Judaica must include publications from nearly every country in the world, written in most of the world's languages. In our quest for acquisitions we have been more successful than any other university library. Among the collections in which the Library takes particular pride, none is more outstanding than Judaica.

Douglas W. Bryant

DIRECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

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While the study of Hebrew at Harvard goes back to the very beginnings of Harvard itself, the real development of post-Biblical Jewish Studies at the University began in 1925, with the establishment of the Nathan Littauer Professorship of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy. The creation of this chair formally introduced Jewish Studies into institutions of higher learning in this country, and its first incumbent, Harry Austryn Wolfson, Class of 1912, established a standard of scholarship which had much to do with the spread of Jewish Studies to other universities.

During Harry Wolfson's tenure, Harvard began building what is now the country's leading university library of Judaica. The only endowed curatorship in Judaica is at Harvard, and the printed catalogue of Harvard's Hebrew books, nine folio volumes, is a tool for librarians and scholars the world over. In 1970, Harvard acknowledged the importance of this program with the establishment of a second tenured professorship in Hebrew and Jewish History from general University funds.

"Hebrew in XXIV hours" was promised by this textbook used at Harvard in the 17th century.

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From the Library's collection on Jewish art: cabalistic symbols decorating the Hebrew letter Alef; from a portfolio of drawings by Abram Krol, issued with a French translation of the Jewish daily prayer book published in Lyon in 1961.

Harvard's strength in Jewish Studies has been half a century in the making. The courses offered under- graduates and graduate students have multiplied steadily in the areas of Medieval and Modern Jew- ish History and Philosophy, and Medieval and Modern Hebrew Language and Literature. During these years, enrollment has increased steadily. Con- comitantly, the Harvard Judaica Collection has grown to some 150,000 books, periodicals, pam- phlets, broadsides, and manuscripts in Hebrew, Yiddish, and most of the languages of the world.

The student of Judaica at Harvard is privileged to have at his disposal not only resources in his own field, but also the immense cognate resources available only at a great university.

Harvard's Ph.D. program in Jewish Studies is generally recognized to be one of the most rigorous in the country; every year many more highly qualified students apply than can be admitted. The qualifications of our graduates are matched by their opportunities and there is competition among American and Canadian universities for their ser- vices. Our graduates have been appointed at the University of California at Berkeley and at Los

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Angeles, at Brandeis, Brooklyn College, Indiana, McGill, Temple, Toronto, and Yale, as well as a number of Jewish institutions of higher learning. In recent years, the number of regular teaching positions in Judaica in this country and in Canada has grown from perhaps a dozen to several hundred. Because of its prominence as a seat of general learning, Harvard must help prepare the teacher-scholars needed for these expanding programs. Thus the strengthening of the Judaica program at Harvard could have national reverberations.

The study of Judaica at Harvard is by no means limited to students specializing in the field. Much of Judaica is by definition interdisciplinary, and therefore serves to unite various fields, and to deepen the appreciation of many aspects of historical and humanistic study. Undergraduate and graduate students from diverse fields take courses in Judaica. Many doctoral students in History, Religion, Philosophy, Literature, and Government elect to present an aspect of Jewish History or Hebrew Literature as one of their required fields for the general examination.

Finally, the availability of Jewish Studies to large numbers of undergraduates may be viewed as a

ΣΡΑΗΛ

ישראל

B'nai B'rach
Yeshiva University
Yerushalayim 1934

תל־yahו דשאלו כח
שינעראע וילעך
שינעראע וילעך

A Ladino (Judeo-Spanish)-Greek Zionist journal, published in Salonica in 1934; from the Library's collection on Sephardic Jewry.

... Jewish Education in the Broadest Sense ...

We stand on the threshold of an exciting venture. The establishment of a Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies should have far-reaching repercussions for Jewish scholarship—Jewish education in the broadest sense—throughout this country and beyond.

ISADORE TWERSKY

Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy

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נידנער
נירידער

From the Library's extensive Yiddish collection: "Der Mishpet
ibern Kheder"—a report, in Yiddish, on the trial of the Jewish
religious school in the Soviet Union (Vitebsk, 1922).

... A Very Special Tradition ...

Harvard is a general University, but its reputation and
educational contribution rests with its specifics. There are
separate themes and threads in the University which give it
aggregate identity . . . and at this point in Harvard's history,
it is appropriate that Judaic Studies be enriched. This
University, with its unique New England cultural roots, will
benefit from and make its own contribution to the very special
tradition that flows from intensive and serious study of
Judaica.

CHASE N. PETERSON
Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development

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new form of Jewish education pursued within the
discipline of a college curriculum.

In meeting the burgeoning demand for Jewish
Studies, the standards of excellence traditionally
associated with the study of Judaica at Harvard
must be sustained and its resources expanded.

Unfortunately, at a time when expansion is in
order, income is declining, and the problem is one
of maintaining even present levels of activity. Some
federally supported programs have been eliminated
altogether. At the same time, the federal govern-
ment has reduced or dropped its support of lan-
guage studies at the graduate level. As worldwide
book publication increases both in quantity and in
cost, the Library has also been acutely affected.

As expenses rise, as government and foundation
support declines, and as inflation continues its up-
ward spiral, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences has
contributed an increasing amount of unrestricted
funds to instruction in Jewish Studies and support
of the Library's Judaica Collection. That Faculty's
contribution can no longer continue to rise fast
enough to meet the needs. The challenge is to in-
crease income through endowment.

Harry A. Wolfson,
1887-1974

The passing of Professor Harry Austryn Wolfson, the father of Jewish Studies on the American campus, reminds us that a strong program of Jewish Studies at Harvard benefits colleges and universities throughout the country. Already many scholars and friends of Harry Wolfson have suggested a memorial in his name, both in the form of a professorship and in general support for the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies. These would indeed be fitting recognition of Harry Wolfson's unequalled scholarly achievements.

A.B. Harvard University 1912 (11)

A.M. Harvard University 1912

Ph.D. Harvard University 1915

D.H.Litt. Jewish Institute of Religion 1935

D.H.Litt. Jewish Theological Seminary of America 1937

D.H.L. Hebrew Union College 1945

L.H.D. Yeshiva University 1950

Litt.D. Dropsie College 1952

L.H.D. University of Chicago 1953

Litt.D. Harvard University 1956

L.H.D. Brandeis University 1958

L.H.D. Columbia University 1970

Litt.D. Stonehill College 1973

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THE NEED

... Harvard Can Be a Model ...

It is not a matter of consciousness raising, it is rather a
matter of contributing to the larger society.

We approach this problem with the idea that we are doing something special. I am not speaking as a Harvard chauvinist, but I have faith that Harvard can be a model for the advance-ment of Jewish Studies, just as it has been for more than 300 years in so many other areas of instruction and cultural activity.

What has been built historically at Harvard in a modest
way can now be strengthened by our efforts. There are
hundreds of similar courses of instruction throughout the
country. Are they competing with us? Not really. They are
looking to Harvard to set the standard. What we propose will
do just that.

HARRY STARR '21

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Endowment for Instruction

Two professors cannot cover a history and culture
which span several millennia. The need for more
endowed chairs is pressing in the areas of Helle-
nistic-Talmudic Judaism, Judeo-Arabic Civiliza-
tion, Medieval and Modern Hebrew Language,
Medieval and Modern Jewish Philosophy, Modern
Hebrew Literature, and Modern Jewish History,
with special attention to East European Jewry,
Zionism, and Israel. Indeed, each of these broad
areas comprises several fields in which chairs could
be established.

Such growth would not only expand but deepen
present work in some of these fields, while en-
couraging a creative balance with others. Different
competences and methodologies would sustain
fruitful relationships and, because of the intrinsical-
ly interdisciplinary nature of Jewish Studies, any
broadening of teaching and research in these areas
would automatically benefit related fields. In addi-
tion, such academic programs as the comparative
study of religions, currently expanding at Harvard
and elsewhere, would benefit from the increased
resources made available for the study of Judaism.

The minimum endowment required for expanded instruction is $1 million for each of six named chairs (professorships).

Endowment for Fellowships

Harvard's doctoral program in Jewish Studies trains scholar-teachers for Jewish Studies programs throughout the country. It is long and demanding. Because of its extensive historical and philological requirements, most of its participants come to Harvard after several years of graduate work at other institutions and remain here for more years than do their peers in other fields. They tend to be older than most graduate students, and a good number are married and have children. If they are to succeed in this intensive program, they must devote themselves completely to their studies. Fellowships and assistantships, and money for travel and research abroad, are critical.

For years, the federal government supported graduate students in the form of language fellowships. This support has been cut drastically. If Harvard is to continue training teachers and scholars in Jewish Studies, the fellowship endowment in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences must increase by at least $3.6 million.

Increased interest in Judaism and Jewish affairs on the American campus in recent years is reflected in this sampling of the Jewish student press recently exhibited at the Library.

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French-Jewish theatre poster; from the Library's Jewish Theatre Collection.

... The Whole Record ...

In this effort to increase Hebraica and Judaica in the Har-
vard College Library, we acknowledge the centrality of the
Jewish religious, moral, and scholarly tradition in any great
library dedicated to the preservation of the whole record of the
human endeavor.

GEORGE H. WILLIAMS
Hollis Professor of Divinity

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The Harvard Judaica Collection is a major national resource. All Jewish Studies at Harvard depend upon it, and other fields benefit from its strength. As an integral part of the world's largest university library, the collection both enriches that bibliographic resource and is enriched by it. The collection's continued growth is essential not only to Harvard but quite literally to Jewish Studies everywhere.

Traditional areas of strength in the Judaica Col-
lection must be sustained, and new areas of interest
developed.

Over the last fifty years, the quantity of Judaica published in Israel, the United States, and elsewhere has increased greatly. So, too, have the costs of these materials and the services they require. The discrepancy between needs and resources has become critical, and the press for additional endowed funds for books and curatorships urgent.

To keep pace with demands, the Judaica Collec-
tion needs an additional endowment of $2.5 million.

A Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies would coordinate diverse research efforts and initiate publication and scholarly programs and activities in the field of Judaica. The Center would insure that these programs remain in the mainstream of academic life at Harvard. Like existing Harvard centers such as the Center for East Asian Studies and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Center for Jewish Studies would cross departments to deepen and integrate the study of the languages, literature, history, philosophy, and religion of the Jewish people.

Close scholarly links of inestimable value have already been forged between Harvard and other loci of Jewish learning here and abroad, particularly with Israel. Visiting scholars, taking advantage of Harvard's resources, bring a freshness of approach and diversity of interest to our teaching and research program that would otherwise be lacking. The Center should be able to invite more of these scholars on a regular basis for both short-term and long-term projects.

Endowment for at least one distinguished visiting professorship would enable the Center to bring to Harvard outstanding scholars from all over the world.

It is important that younger scholars from the United States and abroad, trained at Harvard and at other institutions, have the opportunity to spend a year at Harvard during a formative stage of their scholarly careers. Post-doctoral grants and research fellowships will bring these promising scholar-teachers into a close-knit community of learning. Such a program cannot help but enhance the quality of teaching and scholarship in Judaica at Harvard and elsewhere.

A major research and publications program would strengthen all the efforts of Jewish Studies. A Harvard Judaica Series would provide initiative, order, and continuity in the preparation and publication of historical monographs, source translations and commentaries, biographical, literary, and philosophical studies, and bibliographic aids.

Scholarly meetings, seminars, and colloquia, as well as public lectures, would be arranged by the Center.

For a visiting professorship, visiting scholars, research, seminars, and publications, the Center requires an endowment of $2.9 million.

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## How to Help

Gifts to The Program for the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies will be warmly welcomed. They may be made in cash, securities, pledges, and letters of intent. Arrangements can be made to suit donors who wish to postpone their support. Pamphlets are available describing Harvard's Pooled Income Fund or Charitable Remainder Trusts, and Bequests.

Checks should be made payable to Harvard University and sent to:
The Recording Secretary, Harvard University, Holyoke Center 750,
75 Mt. Auburn St., Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138.

A named gift to the Endowment will perpetuate the donor's enduring benefaction—whether honoring or memorializing individuals or special events.

The Center for Jewish Studies will place Harvard in a position of unquestioned leadership in the field of Jewish Studies and will add further distinction to the University as a whole. It will be fitting for Harvard—which established the first chair devoted to Jewish Studies—to provide a comprehensive and imaginative model for the future study of Judaica. Harvard will have the opportunity—given the needed resources—to foster as distinguished a scholarly tradition in Judaica as it has in many other fields.

Gerard Weinstock '39

CHAIRMAN

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## Who Will Help

A number of concerned volunteers have formed a National Committee to work for the establishment of the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies. Their names appear below. Through their efforts, and with the generosity of individuals, foundations, and corporations, the program hopes to reach its goal of $15 million before 1979.

Any member of the National Committee will be glad to discuss the program with you in detail. At Harvard, the telephone number for the Committee is (Area Code 617) 495-5433.

### NATIONAL COMMITTEE

**CHAIRMAN**

**Gerard Weinstock**

President, Basic Foods Division—
Mallinckrodt, Inc.,
Englewood, New Jersey

**Alexander Aldrich**

Attorney at Law,
Saratoga Springs, New York

**Stanford J. 'Alexander**

President, Weingarten Realty Inc.,
Houston, Texas

**Cleveland Amory**

Author, New York, New York

**Minx M. Auerbach**

Director of Consumer Affairs,
City of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky

**H. Thomas Austern**

Attorney at Law, Washington, D.C.

**Jordan Band**

Attorney at Law, Cleveland, Ohio

**Philip Baskin**

Attorney at Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

**B. Robert Benson**

Attorney at Law, Montreal, Quebec

**Mandell L. Berman**

President, Bert L. Smokler Company,
Southfield, Michigan

**Kenneth J. Bialkin**

Attorney at Law, New York, New York

**Louis W. Bookheim, Jr.**

**Merom Brachman**

Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation,
Columbus, Ohio

**Jack E. Brown**

Attorney at Law, Phoenix, Arizona

**Toby Citrin**

J. A. Citrin Sons Company,
Southfield, Michigan

**Bertram J. Cohn**

Chairman, DPF, Inc.,
Hartsdale, New York

**Wilbur A. Cowett**

Vice Chairman, Wertheim & Co., Inc.,
New York, New York

**Emanuel Dannett**

**Richard E. Deutsch**

Greenwich, Connecticut

**Alan Doft**

President, Doft & Company, Inc.,
New York, New York

**Samuel J. Duboff**

S. D. Leidesdorf & Company,
New York, New York

**Sydney Dunitz**

Attorney at Law, Beverly Hills, California

**Sanford B. Ehrenkranz**

**Gerald Eisner**

Vice President, Composition Systems, Inc.,
Elmsford, New York

**Theodore Ellenoff**

**Robin L. Farkas**

Senior Vice President, Alexander's, Inc.,
New York, New York

**Sumner L. Feldberg**

Chairman, Zayre Corp.,
Framingham, Massachusetts

**Tracy H. Ferguson**

Attorney at Law,
Syracuse, New York

**Edward A. Fogel**

**Melvin H. Freedman**

New York, New York

**Henry Frey, M.D.**

Director,
Adams County Mental Health Center,
Denver, Colorado

**Judith E. Friedberg**

Senior Editor, *Travel and Leisure*,
New York, New York

**William Stix Friedman**

Drexel Burnham & Co.,
St. Louis, Missouri

**William Lee Frost**

**Martin Gang**

Attorney at Law, Hollywood, California

**Arnold B. Gardner**

Attorney at Law, Buffalo, New York

**Jane S. Gerber**

Assistant Professor,
Lehman College - C.U.N.Y.,
Scarsdale, New York

**Patrick T. Gibbons**

Senior Vice President, L Q Motor Inns Inc.,
San Antonio, Texas

**Carol R. Goldberg**

Vice President and General Manager,
Boston Supermarket Division,
The Stop & Shop Companies, Inc.,
Boston, Massachusetts

**Jonathan Golden**

Attorney at Law, Atlanta, Georgia

**Morton R. Goldhar**

President, Crown-Meakins Ltd.,
Toronto, Ontario

**Richard N. Goldman**

Richard N. Goldman & Company,
San Francisco, California

**Sidney Goldmann**

Attorney at Law, Trenton, New Jersey

**E. Robert Goodkind**

**Albert H. Gordon**

Chairman,
Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated,
New York, New York

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**Richard E. Sherwood**
Attorney at Law, Los Angeles, California

**Jerome J. Shestack**
Attorney at Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

**Charles E. Silberman**
Author, Mount Vernon, New York

**Daniel J. Silver**
Rabbi, The Temple, Cleveland, Ohio

**Edward A. Smith**
Attorney at Law, Kansas City, Missouri

**Richard A. Smith**
President, General Cinema Corporation,
Boston, Massachusetts

**Peter J. Solomon**
Lehman Brothers, New York, New York

**Morton I. Sosland**
Editor and Publisher, *Milling & Baking News*,
Kansas City, Missouri

**Harry Starr**
President,
The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation, Inc.,
New York, New York

**L. D. Starr**
Vice President, Allied Stores Corporation,
New York, New York

**Sherman H. Starr**
Starr, Finer, Starr and Company,
Boston, Massachusetts

**David Steine**
Lee, Robinson & Steine, Inc.,
Nashville, Tennessee

**Malcolm H. Stern**
Rabbi,
Central Conference of American Rabbis,
New York, New York

**William Stix**
Attorney at Law, St. Louis, Missouri

**Myron K. Stone**
President, Designers Knitting Mills,
New York, New York

**Peter Strauss**
Senior Vice President,
General Cigar Company, Inc.,
New York, New York

**Allen E. Susman**
Attorney at Law, Beverly Hills, California

**Albert Sussman**
Executive Vice President,
International Council of Shopping Centers,
New York, New York

**Melvin J. Sykes**
Attorney at Law, Baltimore, Maryland

**Harold Tanner**
Executive Vice President,
New Court Securities Corporation,
New York, New York

**Frederic C. Tausend**
Attorney at Law, Seattle, Washington

**Marvin S. Traub**
President, Bloomingdale's, Inc.,
New York, New York

**Robert S. Weil**
President, Weil Brothers Cotton, Inc.,
Montgomery, Alabama

**Harris K. Weston**
Attorney at Law, Cincinnati, Ohio

**Morgan Dix Wheelock**
Brailsin, Porter & Wheelock, Inc.,
Darien, Connecticut

**Robert E. White**
Senior Vice President,
Spencer, White & Prentis, Inc.,
New York, New York

**David H. Wice**
Attorney at Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

**Maynard I. Wishner**
President, Walter E. Heller & Company,
Chicago, Illinois

**Richard Witkin**
Journalist, *The New York Times*
New York, New York

**Gisela W. Wyzanski**
Cambridge, Massachusetts

## EX OFFICIO

**Derek C. Bok**
President

**Henry Rosovsky**
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences

**Burton S. Dreben**
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

**Douglas W. Bryant**
Director of the University Library

**Isadore Twersky**
Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature
and Philosophy

**Yosef H. Yerushalmi**
Professor of Hebrew and of Jewish History

**Charles Berlin**
Lee M. Friedman Bibliographer in Judaica

**Charles D. Thompson**
University Coordinator

## HONORARY MEMBERS

**CHAIRMAN**
Harry Starr
New York, New York

**Raymond Aron**
Paris, France

**Salo W. Baron**
Canaan, Connecticut

**John C. Bennett**
Claremont, California

**Isaiah Berlin**
Oxford, England

**Leonard Bernstein**
New York, New York

**René Cassin**
Paris, France

**Benjamin V. Cohen**
Washington, D.C.

**William Frankel**
London, England

**Paul A. Freund**
Cambridge, Massachusetts

**William Haber**
Ann Arbor, Michigan

**Theodore M. Hesburgh**
Notre Dame, Indiana

**Howard H. Hiatt**
Boston, Massachusetts

**Walter S. Hilborn**
Los Angeles, California

**Philip M. Klutznick**
Chicago, Illinois

**David Lloyd Kreeger**
Washington, D.C.

**Simon S. Kuznets**
Cambridge, Massachusetts

**Louis H. Pollak**
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

**Abram L. Sachar**
Waltham, Massachusetts

**Albert M. Sacks**
Cambridge, Massachusetts

**Murray Seasongood**
Cincinnati, Ohio

**Judah J. Shapiro**
New York, New York

**Edward M. M. Warburg**
Westport, Connecticut

**Theodore H. White**
New York, New York

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CONTINUED FROM INSIDE FRONT COVER

History (edited by A. Altmann) ... An Inventory of American Jewish History (M. Rischin) ... The Promised City: New York's Jews, 1870-1914 (M. Rischin) ... No More Forever: A Saharan Jewish Town (L. C. Briggs and N. L. Guede) ... The Idea of the Jewish State (B. Halpern) ... The United States and Israel (N. Safran) ... Taxes and People in Israel (H. Wilkenfeld) ... The Economy of the Israeli Kibbutz (E. Kanovsky) ... Kibbutz: Venture in Utopia (M. Spiro) ... Family and Community in the Kibbutz (Y. Talmon) ... The Negev: The Challenge of a Desert (M. Evenari, L. Shana, and N. Tadmor) ... A History of the Jewish People (edited by H. H. Ben-Sasson), 3 vols. ... Index to Festschriften in Jewish Studies (C. Berlin) ... The Jewish People and Palestine: A Bibliophilic Pilgrimage Through Five Centuries (Y. H. Yerushalmi and C. Berlin) ... Catalogue of Hebrew Books (Harvard University Library) 9 vols. ... Judaica in the Houghton Library ... Judaica (Widener Library Shelflist Series) ... Hebrew Manuscripts in the Houghton Library of the Harvard College Library: A Catalogue (M. Glatzer; edited by C. Berlin and R. G. Dennis).

DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS IN JUDAICA OR RELATED TO JEWISH STUDIES WRITTEN IN RECENT YEARS

The Art and Architecture of Palestine under Herod the Great: A Survey of Major Sites (Classics) ... Development of a Community-Based System of Fundamental Education and Its Application to an Israeli Village (Education) ... The Moshav in Israel: A Case Study of Institution Building for Agricultural Development (Economics) ... The Language of Herz's *Esther*: A Study in Judeo-German Dialectology (German Languages and Literatures) ... The Role of Eliezer Ben Yehuda in the Revival of the Hebrew Language: A Sociolinguistic Study (Linguistics) ... Mapai—The Israel Labor Party: Political Organization and Government in a New Society (Government) ... The Moral and Spiritual Antecedents of Zionism and of the State of Israel, with a Special Examination of the Writings of Peretz ben Moshe Smolenskin (Government) ... The Legal Status of the Jewish Merchants of Venice, 1541-1638 (History) ... Anti-Semitism in France, 1870-1894 (History) ... Jewish Life and Labor in New York City, 1870-1914 (History) ... Nationalism & Identity: German Zionism, 1897-1933 (History) ... British Policy toward Palestine, 1914-1939 (History) ... Samuel of Nehardea: Studies in His Life and His Teachings (Near Eastern Languages) ... A Study of David Kimhi (Near Eastern Languages) ... Meir Abulafia and the Maimonidean Controversy of the 13th Century (Near Eastern Languages) ... An Introduction to the *Sefer ha-Hinnuk* (Near Eastern Languages) ... Abrabanel on Maimonides' Theory of Prophecy (Near Eastern Languages) ... Rabbinical Attitudes Toward Philosophy in 16th Century Eastern Europe (Near Eastern Languages) ... The Philosophy of Abraham Shalom as an Exposition and Defense of Maimonides (Near Eastern Languages) ... The Coming of the Jews to Livorno 1593 (Near Eastern Languages) ... Sa'id ibn Daud al-Adani: His Role in 15th Century Judeo-Arabic Literature (Near Eastern Languages) ... Elijah Capsali's *Seder Eliyyahu Zuta* (Near Eastern Languages) ... Society and Jewish History (Near Eastern Languages and Social Relations) ... The Jew in the *Comedia* of the Golden Age (Romance Languages and Literatures) ... Acculturation, Continuity, and Youth in the Israeli Immigrant Village (Social Relations).

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BUILDING ON STRENGTH

AMONG THE COURSES OFFERED AT HARVARD SINCE 1966 Elementary Hebrew ... Intermediate Hebrew: Readings in Modern Hebrew Prose and Poetry ... Advanced Hebrew (Modern): Tradition and Revolt in Modern Hebrew Literature ... Hebrew (Post-Biblical Texts): An Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash ... Hebrew: Philosophical Texts ... Hebrew (Rabbinical Texts): Selections from the Talmud, Midrash, Codes, and Biblical Commentaries ... Hebrew: Medieval Prose and Poetry ... Hebrew (Historical Texts): Sources concerning Emancipation and Enlightenment ... Modern Hebrew Literature ... Hasidism in Modern Hebrew Literature ... The Works of S. J. Agnon ... Hebrew Fiction of the Twentieth Century ... Aramaic Language and Literature ... Ideas of History in Near Eastern Civilizations ... The History of the Jews in Europe to the End of the Eighteenth Century ... Sources of Jewish History, 500-1750 ... Religion and Philosophy in Medieval Judaism ... Maimonides: An Introduction to His Life and Thought ... Classics of the Jewish Tradition ... Problems in Jewish Intellectual History ... The Jews in Muslim Spain ... The Jews in Christian Spain ... Sixteenth-Century Jewish Historiography ... Jewish Messianism and Sectarianism ... Development and Structure of the Jewish Community ... Jewish Social Thought in Early Modern Times ... Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to French Emancipation ... The Jews of France from the Revolution to Napoleon ... History of the Jews of Poland ... Jews in Modern Times: From the French Revolution to the Emergence of Israel ... Jewish Historiography in Modern Times ... The Jewish Holocaust and the Phenomenon of Genocide.

A SELECTION OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLICATIONS IN OR RELATING TO JUDAICA Judaism in the First Centuries of the Christian Era: The Age of the Tannaim (G. F. Moore) ... Studies in the History of the Sanhedrin (H. Mantel) ... Books of Jewish Interest from The Loeb Classical Library: Josephus, 9 vols.; Philo, 10 vols. ... Philo and the Oral Law: The Philonic Interpretation of Biblical Law in Relation to the Palestinian Halakah (S. Belkin) ... Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (H. A. Wolfson) ... Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion (H. A. Wolfson) ... Religious Philosophy: A Group of Essays (H. A. Wolfson) ... Crescas' Critique of Aristotle: Problems of Aristotle's Physics in Jewish and Arabic Philosophy (H. A. Wolfson) ... Rabad of Posquières: A Twelfth-Century Talmudist (I. Twersky) ... David Kimhi, The Man and the Commentaries (F. Talmage) ... Jewish Medieval and Renaissance Studies (edited by A. Altmann) ... Public Opinion, Propaganda and Politics in 18th-Century England: A Study of the Jew Bill of 1753 (T. W. Perry) ... Jews and Freemasons in Europe, 1723-1939 (J. Katz) ... Out of the Ghetto: The Social Background of Jewish Emancipation (J. Katz) ... Studies in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Intellectual History (edited by A. Altmann) ... An Inventory of American Jewish History (M. Rischin) ... The Promised

Table of Contents

What are Jewish studies? 5

I. The Hellenistic-Talmudic Period 7

II. Jewish Civilization Under Islam 8

III. Medieval and Modern Hebrew Language 8

IV. Medieval and Modern Jewish Philosophy 10

V. Modern Hebrew Literature 11

VI. Modern Jewish History 12

A Tribute to Harry Austryn Wolfson 15

The Cost 16

How to Help 16

שלא לעשות כutziv v'simchat

What are Jewish studies?

Jewish scholarship embraces the history and literature of the Jewish people in a continuum of more than three millennia through all its metamorphoses. It is the study of a global history, embracing every country in which Jews have lived in their worldwide dispersion. It is Jewish intellectual history, philosophy, science, mysticism, jurisprudence, as well as the social and economic history of the Jews. It is the study of Jewish languages — Hebrew, of course, in all its historical phases — but also Aramaic, Yiddish, Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian, and all the other languages spoken by Jews, and the literatures produced by Jews in those languages. In sum, Jewish studies encompass every aspect of a rich and multifaceted civilization pursued rigorously with the critical, philological, and methodological tools that have been refined in the common enterprise that unites all scholars, whatever their discipline.

Thus far, at Harvard, instruction in Jewish studies has emanated from two chairs: the Littauer Professorship of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, established in 1925 and now held by Isadore Twersky; and the Professorship of Hebrew and of Jewish History, established by the university in 1970 and held by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi. Both these distinguished scholars have not only maintained Harvard's intensive doctoral program: they have offered, over the years, a wide range of courses in many different periods and areas of Jewish history and literature. While this is a tribute to their erudition and versatility, it is obvious that, ultimately, two professors alone cannot sustain the teaching in depth of all the vital segments of Jewish civilization, each of which constitutes an entire discipline in itself.

The establishment of at least six more chairs is imperative if the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies is to fulfill its mission. Indeed, these constitute the teaching and research axis of the entire enterprise. The establishment of these professorships will not merely represent an arithmetical increment but a geometric expansion. It will mean that Harvard will be able to offer the richest undergraduate range of courses in Judaica available in this country. Prospective doctoral students will find here a

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["cadre of Judaic scholars of the first rank who can guide them in any field they may choose for specialization, as well as in related fields. The various professors holding chairs in Jewish studies will find scholarly stimulation in interacting with one another. Finally, a host of cognate disciplines at the university will be enriched by the presence of these scholars in areas of shared interest and concern.", "The university has isolated six areas of priority in Jewish studies, to be discussed below, in which chairs may be established. These areas have purposely been broadly defined. Each contains a number of relevant specialties, to any one of which the incumbent of the chair will bring his specific qualifications. All of the professorships, however, will have a number of characteristics in common. The scholar appointed must have both proven distinction in his special field and a broad background in Jewish history and literature generally. While each area demands a variety of linguistic equipment, Hebrew is basic to all. The professor of Jewish studies must be essentially a Hebraist and a scholar of Judaica, working outward from primary Jewish sources, rather than a generalist with a subsidiary interest in some Jewish field. To give but one example, an East-European Jewish historian, as we conceive of him, should not be merely a general historian of Russia with an interest in Russian Jewry, however strong, conversant only with sources in the Russian language. He must be primarily an historian of Russian Jewry, thoroughly at home with the Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian sources and, of course, fully competent in Russian history as well.", "The descriptions that follow briefly sketch the basic characteristics of each area, and the sub-fields within it (any one of which can be the basis of one or more chairs). Because of the intrinsic inter-disciplinary nature of Jewish studies, we assume that most chairs will be joint appointments to two departments. It should be stressed that the fields indicated are offered only as examples and must not be regarded as rigid categories. All fields of Jewish studies are, after all, related. Ultimately, the caliber of the scholar will be decisive. The goal is to bring to Harvard the finest Jewish scholars available, and thus add strength to strength. It is their personal excellence that will further determine the definition and order of the chairs to be established.", "First page of the tractate Berakhot, from the\nfirst complete edition of the Babylonian\nTalmud, printed by Daniel Bomberg in Venice,\n1520-23.", "## מיכת י", "אכזב אצלו אצלו אצלו אצלו אצלו אצלו אצ

Stretching approximately from the fourth century B.C.E., when Alexander the Great conquered Palestine and much of the Near East, to 500 C.E., when the Babylonian Talmud was closed, this period was fraught with developments that have vitally affected the Jewish people to this day. It witnessed the interaction between Judaism and Hellenistic-Greek culture; the rise and fall of the Second Jewish Commonwealth in Palestine; the emergence of Christianity; the confrontation of Jewry with the Roman and Iranian world- Empires; and the evolution and crystallization of classical Rabbinic Judaism, that is, of that normative Judaism which was to shape Jewish life the world over down to modern times.

Fields: Jewish history and literature in the Graeco-Roman world; Rabbinic literature; Talmudic jurisprudence.

A page from De Bello
Judaico, the history of
the Jewish revolt against
Rome in 66-70 C.E., by
Josephus Flavius
(Augsburg, 1470).

The exposition of the Book of Genesis by the
first century philosopher, Philo of Alexandria
(Paris, 1520).

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Hobot ha-lebabot ("The Duties of the Heart"), one of the most popular of all Jewish ethical-philosophical works; written in twelfth century Spain by Bahya Ibn Pakuda. This edition, in the original Judeo-Arabic, was printed in 1919 on the island of Djerba off the coast of Tunisia.

## II. Jewish Civilization Under Islam

The rise of Islam in the seventh century C.E., and the subsequent Muslim conquest of much of the civilized world, from Spain in the West to India in the East, had fateful consequences for Jewry everywhere. For many centuries thereafter, the bulk of world Jewry lived under Muslim rule and in an intimate interaction with Islamic civilization. If, in its origins, Islam owed much to Judaism, in subsequent periods Jews borrowed much from Muslim culture and were stimulated by this contact to new creativity. Suffice it to say that the bulk of medieval Jewish philosophy, science, and poetry can only be understood within this context. Maimonides' *Guide for the Pplexed* and a host of other philosophic texts were composed in Judeo-Arabic, written in Hebrew characters. In the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Turkish Empire harbored, along with Poland, the largest and most vital Jewry in the world.

*Fields:* History of the Jews in Muslim Spain and North Africa; history of Turkish and Persian Jewry; Judeo-Arabic language and literature; Judeo-Persian language and literature.

## III. Medieval and Modern Hebrew Language

The Hebrew language, which has accompanied the Jewish people throughout its course in history and has remained the prime vehicle for literary and religious expression even in periods when it was not spoken, has a richly varied history of its own. Every age of Jewish creativity modified and further developed the language, from the Bible to the Mishnah and Midrash, from Palestinian poets of the seventh century to those of Spain in the Golden Age, from medieval Rabbinic jurists and homilists to the revival of

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The corpus of Jewish philosophy produced from the ninth through the
seventeenth centuries constitutes one of the grand intellectual achieve-
ments of the Middle Ages. Within Jewry, the philosophers boldly confront-
ed the claims of Faith and Reason, of Jewish tradition and Greek philoso-
phy, striving for a reconciliation between the two. At the same time, they
often made significant and original contributions to problems that also
preoccupied their Christian and Muslim counterparts. Indeed, the late
Professor Harry Wolfson demonstrated the degree to which a knowledge of
medieval Jewish philosophy is crucial to an understanding of the medieval
philosophic enterprise as a whole.

If modern Jewish philosophy has had to confront such new problems as
the implications for Judaism of emancipation, secularism and other phe-
nomena specific to the modern era, it still cannot be divorced from its
medieval antecedents. For all that is new, there is also a continuum. The
thought of Moses Mendelssohn in the eighteenth century, for example,
cannot be appreciated without a knowledge of Spinoza in the seventeenth
century, while the latter, in turn, stands on the shoulders of his medieval
Jewish predecessors. The historical study of Jewish philosophy at the uni-
versity has obvious importance as an organic component of Jewish intellec-
tual history. At the same time, it illumines, and is illumined by, major
trends in the evolution of medieval and modern philosophy generally.

*Fields:* Medieval and modern Jewish philosophy are to be considered as one field.

A A page from the first Hebrew printed edition of Maimonides' Moreh Nebukhim ("The Guide for the Perplexed"), Rome, ca. 1480.

B *The first printed Latin translation of Maimonides' Guide, Paris, 1520.*

A.

B.

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V. Modern Hebrew Literature

From its tentative beginnings in eighteenth century Germany and Italy, through its great renaissance in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century, its fusion with the national revival on the soil of Palestine, and its contemporary flowering in the State of Israel, modern Hebrew literature is both a mirror of modern Jewry and a stunning cultural achievement that has by now assumed its rightful place within the spectrum of world literature. While the accelerating pace of translation into English and other languages attests to this international recognition (and indeed makes possible the offering of courses even to those not fluent in Hebrew), the bulk of modern Hebrew literature remains and must be studied in the original. Whether in prose or poetry, in essay, short story, or novel, lyric or epic, Hebrew literature voices the concerns and aspirations of the Jewish people and of the individual Jew in the modern world. And, while speaking in its own voice and in an old-new language, it also articulates and clarifies the deepest feelings of modern men everywhere. Courses in modern Hebrew literature are already available at Harvard, but they must be expanded in number and in scope, and a doctoral program must be created in this field. A program in Jewish studies would be inconceivable without a full range of courses in modern Hebrew literature. A university that has always prided itself in the variety of world literatures in its curriculum will welcome them.

Fields: Modern Hebrew literature and criticism.

A group of works by the 1966 Nobel laureate in literature, S. Y. Agnon, in the original Hebrew, and in Spanish, Italian and Turkish translations.

SH. AGNON IL TORTO
DIVENTERA' DIRITTO

PREMIO NOBEL
BOMPIANI EDITORE

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The first royal charter of privileges, issued to the Jews of Poland, was granted by Boleslaw the Pious of Kalisz in 1264, and formed the basis for their subsequent legal status. Shown here is a page from an edition of the Charter in eight languages, handwritten and illuminated by Arthur Szyk, and published in Paris in 1932.

# VI. Modern Jewish History

Courses in modern Jewish history have been offered regularly at Harvard over the past decade and student interest in these courses has steadily increased. We have defined the "modern" period within the widest chronological limits, from the Spanish Expulsion of 1492 to the present. While it is consistent with our general approach that the incumbent of any chair related to modern Jewish history would be expected to have the broadest possible background in the modern Jewish period as a whole, two critical areas deserve particular expansion in both teaching and research: Eastern Europe, and the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. Each of these constitutes a complex area in itself.

## A. East European Jewish studies

This area comprises the history of the Jews of Poland until the partition of the Polish Kingdom in the eighteenth century; the history of Russian and Polish Jewry under Tsarist rule; the history of Polish Jewry between the World Wars; and of Russian Jewry under the Soviets. It is, in short, the study of those Jewries which were, until the Nazi holocaust, the biological and cultural reservoir of world Jewry in modern times. From East European Jewry came such primary forces as Hasidism, modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature, Jewish socialism, and much of the Jewish national revival. From Eastern Europe, too, emerged that mass migration of Jews which was crucial in the development of the American Jewish community as we know it today. Among the many facets of a contemplated academic program in East European Jewry, the study of Yiddish language and literature would be represented as well.

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## B. Zionism and Israel

The establishment of the State of Israel, the third independent Jewish commonwealth, is not only a landmark in Jewish history but one of the major events of the modern world. The historical study of the emergence of Israel, however, cannot take 1948 as its point of departure, nor can it content itself with a study of political and diplomatic developments since the Balfour Declaration of 1917, or even the Basel Congress of 1897, however relevant these may be. The area of Israel studies would focus on the complex inner evolution and revolution that culminated in the establishment of the State. This area would embrace the total background of Jewish messianism through the ages, the impact of modern emancipation on Jewish life, the variety of competing nineteenth-century Jewish nationalist ideologies, the

The first edition of Theodor Herzl's epoch-making The Jewish State, published in 1896.

Kehilat Ya'akob, a commentary on Ecclesiastes by Moses Galante, printed in the town of Safed in the Upper Galilee in 1578—the second Hebrew book to be printed in sixteenth-century Palestine.

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A Tribute

Harry Austryn Wolfson

1887-1974

"A distinguished philosopher, scholar and teacher at Harvard for over 60 years, Harry Austryn Wolfson followed in the great tradition of Harvard's School of Philosophers, and was honored throughout the world for his magisterial contributions to humanistic scholarship. His many works encompassing the field of philosophy from Aristotle to Spinoza, the Philosophy of the Church Fathers, Islamic religious thought and the significance of Jewish philosophy in the development of medieval and modern philosophical ideas, will remain a monumental contribution to the history of philosophy and to the world of learning. The community of scholars has lost one of its giants, and we have lost a dear friend."

HARRY STARR, President
Lucius N. Littauer Foundation
on the occasion of Professor
Wolfson's death, September 19, 1974

As a tribute to this great scholar, the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard will include the Harry Austryn Wolfson Professorship in Jewish Studies. Funding for this endowed chair will result from the donations of the many people who have known Professor Wolfson, studied with him, and admired his wisdom throughout the years. Contributions of any size for the Wolfson chair will be gratefully received.

PETER J. SOLOMON, Chairman
Wolfson Professorship Fund

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The Program for the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies . . . What does it mean to me?

Q What is the Program for the Harvard Uni-
versity Center for Jewish Studies?

A Recognizing the need to expand and strengthen Jewish Studies, President Derek C. Bok and the Fellows of Harvard College have authorized a formal campaign to raise an endowment of $15 million to create the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies. The Program is spearheaded by a National Committee of some 200 volunteers: men and women, alumni and non-alumni, Jews and non-Jews.

Q Are Jewish Studies something new at Har-
vard?

A No. Courses in Jewish literature, history, and philosophy have been offered since 1915 and were solidified with the establishment of the Littauer Professorship in 1925, significant as the first chair in Jewish Studies at an American university and probably in the world. Initially held by the late Harry A. Wolfson, it is now occupied by Professor Isadore Twersky. In 1970, a full tenured Professorship of Hebrew and of Jewish History was created by the University with its funds, and has been held since then by Professor Yosef H. Yerushalmi. In the fall of 1975, the University established a new Assistant Professorship of Hebrew and of Jewish History.

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**Q** Many programs exist in Jewish Studies throughout the United States that merit support—why contribute to Harvard's program?

**A** Because of Harvard's position in American higher education, and because of its status as an international university, a stronger Jewish Studies program at Harvard will benefit Jewish Studies everywhere. A contribution to Harvard's effort will have a multiplying effect.

**Q** In what way will Harvard's Jewish Studies Program affect such programs elsewhere?

**A** The expansion of Jewish Studies at Harvard will strengthen Jewish Studies programs nationally by providing a resource center as well as future teachers and scholars of Judaica. Harvard's Center will be a major factor in raising standards of curriculum and instruction. Graduates of Harvard's doctoral program are avidly sought as Jewish Studies teachers by other universities. More are needed. Young scholar-teachers from other American institutions, as well as foreign scholars, will be invited to spend a year at Harvard. Increased resources of the Library's Judaica Collection will serve scholars worldwide on a larger scale than at present, through interlibrary loans, extension of library privileges to visiting scholars, and publication of additional bibliographic tools and scholarly research.

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**Q** What is an endowed fund?

**A** An endowed fund is money invested in perpetuity, the income of which may be used only for prestated objectives. New endowment will supplement the substantial support of the Jewish Studies Program currently coming from unrestricted University funds, as well as income from existing but limited endowed funds for Jewish Studies.

**Q** Can Harvard increase its support of Jewish Studies on its own?

**A** With expenses rising and government support declining, the University has continued to contribute an increasing amount of unrestricted funds to instruction in Jewish Studies and support of the Library's Judaica Collection. Unfortunately, University support can no longer cover rising costs. In order to *expand* the program, more funds are needed. The challenge is to increase income through additional endowment.

**Q** What will Harvard achieve by this campaign?

**A** Several objectives. President Derek Bok has stated the need "to insure the continued vitality of teaching and research in this important field for generations." Dean Henry Rosovsky has expressed it..."appropriate that Harvard now respond to the growing interest in Judaica by expanding its own program and creating a Center for Jewish Studies. Such a Center will not only satisfy the unmistakable need for further growth at the University, but also benefit the study and teaching of Judaica throughout the country."

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**Q** Why does a need exist for additional fellowships?

**A** Harvard's doctoral program is long and demanding. Because of its extensive historical and philological requirements, many participants come to Harvard after several years of graduate work at other institutions and remain for more years than do their peers in other academic areas. To succeed in this intensive program, they must devote themselves completely to their studies. Federal support for graduate students in the form of language fellowships has recently eroded. New endowed University funds will offset the loss of this support.

**Q** If Harvard has the largest university collection of Judaica, why are additional funds needed?

**A** Precisely *because* it is the leading university collection in Jewish Studies. Over the last fifty years, the quantity of Judaica published in Israel, the United States, and elsewhere has increased greatly—so, too, have the costs of these materials and the services they require. Traditional areas of strength in the Judaica Collection must be sustained, and new areas of interest developed. The collection's growth is essential—all Jewish Studies at Harvard depend upon it, and it is a major library resource for Jewish Studies in the United States.

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**Q** What distinguishes the Harvard Judaica Collection from other important Judaica collections elsewhere?

**A** As an integral part of the world's largest university library, Harvard's Judaica Collection is enriched by the enormous resources of the Harvard University Library: some nine million volumes, a sophisticated bibliographic and technical apparatus, and a skilled staff of experts—including the only endowed curatorship in Judaica in the world: the post of Lee M. Friedman Bibliographer in Judaica, established in 1962 and held since then by Charles Berlin.

**Q** What is meant by a Center for Jewish Studies?

**A** The Center will be an administrative unit of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences coordinating undergraduate and doctoral programs in Judaica on an interdisciplinary scale, bringing together diverse research efforts, and initiating publication and scholarly activities in the field of Judaica. As with existing Harvard centers, such as the Center for East Asian Studies and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Center for Jewish Studies will cross departments to deepen and integrate the study of languages, literature, history, philosophy, and religion.

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**Q** Is Harvard planning a building?

**A** No. The Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies will be housed in an existing building—the word Center designates an inter-disciplinary academic program.

**Q** What types of programs will the Center sponsor?

**A** The Center will link the teaching and research activities of the professors holding chairs in Jewish Studies. Scholarly meetings, seminars, colloquia, and a publication program as well as public lectures will be arranged by the Center. After a period of extremely rapid growth in this country, there is need for scholarly consolidation and review, careful planning of new directions, projects, and projections. The Center will invite distinguished scholars from other American universities, Israel and Europe to serve as visiting professors. Post-doctoral grants and research fellowships will bring promising young scholar-teachers to Harvard for a year's study.

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**Q** Is the program of interest only to scholars and students in Jewish Studies?

**A** Because of their interdisciplinary nature, the Jewish Studies courses and the Judaica Collection are utilized by large numbers of students and scholars from many fields, including undergraduates who study some aspect of Jewish Studies in conjunction with their major.

**Q** I'm convinced of the validity of this unique combination of Harvard and Jewish Studies. How can I help?

**A** In two ways: Make your personal contribution to the Program.
Discuss the Program with others who might be interested in supporting Jewish Studies at Harvard.

Please remember—

Pledges may be paid over a period of two to five years.

Harvard will be pleased to receive gifts of State of Israel Bonds.

Various deferred giving plans are available.

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**Q** What are opportunities to participate for the donor who cannot endow a professorship?

**A** Fellowships may be endowed for $150,000: endowments for Library Judaica bookfunds range from $5,000 to $100,000; research and publication funds can be set up with endowments of $50,000 to $100,000; and library curatorships and visiting scholar posts range from $250,000 to $500,000.

As a tribute to the late Professor Harry Wolfson, an endowed chair in his name is proposed for the Center. The gifts of the many people who have known Professor Wolfson, studied with him, and admired his wisdom will be gratefully received.

Many small gifts are needed to achieve big goals.

**Q** What are the benefits to supporters of the Program?

**A** *Satisfaction* from the knowledge that your contribution will have a multiplying effect by having contributed to the preservation of Jewish culture and assuring its place in humanistic research at one of the world's leading universities.

*Perpetuity* in making a named gift that will forever commemorate the donor's generosity and concern for Jewish culture.

*Identification* with an effort, described as one of the most significant ever in behalf of Jewish Studies.

*Tax deductibility* of gifts.

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Geographical Listing

The United States

Alabama

Birmingham
Loeb, Robert H.

Montgomery
Weil, Robert S.

Arizona

Phoenix
Allen, Robert H.
Brown, Jack E.
Craig, Stephen W.
Eckstein, Albert
Frazer, David R.
Goddard, Samuel P.
Goldstein, David B.
Horwitch, Arnold M.
Langerman, Samuel
Plotkin, Albert
Rich, David
Shapiro, Samuel

Scottsdale
Levitt, Norman
Marshall, Jonathan

Tucson
Cohen, Marvin S.
Feldman, Stanley G.

Arkansas

Little Rock
Kaplan, Philip E.

California

Atherton
Pritzker, Sue S.

Beverly Hills
Dunitz, Sydney
Firestein, Chester
Green, John
Hutter, Bernice H.
Kiskadden, Margaret A.
Kline, Preston J.
Lemmon, Jack

Levine, Meldon E.
Meyer, Marvin B.
Nicholas, Frederick M.
Susman, Allen E.
Yellin, Ira E.

Burlingame
Moldaw, Stuart G.

Claremont
Bennett, John C.*

Hollywood
Gang, Martin

Los Angeles
Davis, Joseph M., Jr.
Eisenberg, David S.
Greenberg, Allan J.
Greenberg, Maxwell E.
Hilborn, Walter S.*
Kennedy, George C.
Kyman, Alexander L.
Labiner, Suzanne S.
Levin, Gerald H.
Mirell, Leon I.
Sherwood, Richard E.
Stutman, Jack
Wheat, Francis M.
Williams, Harold M.

San Diego
Meyer, Paul I.
Schlossman, Robert

San Francisco
Abel, Brent M.
Flynn, F. Terry
Friedman, K. Bruce
Goldman, Richard N.
Harris, Robert C.
LaFollette, Ellen M.
Roth, William M.
Sack, Paul
Schafer, Jack G.
Steefel, Edward R.
Sutro, John A.

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**Universal City**
Mirisch, Walter M.

**Colorado**

*Denver*
Frey, Henry

**Connecticut**

*Darien*
Wheelock, Morgan Dix

*Greenwich*
Deutsch, Richard E.

*Hartford*
Greenberg, Arnold C.

*Westport*
Warburg, Edward M. M.*

**Delaware**

*Wilmington*
Schall, Edward W.

**District of Columbia**

*Washington*
Austern, H. Thomas
Cohen, Benjamin V.*
Cohen, Wallace M.
Krents, Harold E.
Levy, Arnold

**Florida**

*Bay Harbor Islands*
Horwitz, Lewis I.

*Miami*
Fishman, Lawrence M.
Myers, Sylvan E.
Wolfson, Richard F.

**Georgia**

*Atlanta*
Golden, Jonathan
Moore, John L., Jr.
Regenstein, Louis

**Illinois**

*Chicago*
Grossman, Allen
Klutznick, Philip M.*
Moll, Edwin A.
Pancoe, Arthur
Rothschild, George W.
Rothschild, James I.
Wishner, Maynard I.

*Highland Park*
Slater, Rita

**Indiana**

*Muncie*
Schwartz, Martin D.

*Notre Dame*
Hesburgh, Theodore M.*

**Iowa**

*Des Moines*
Mannheimer, Robert E.

**Kentucky**

*Louisville*
Auerbach, Minx M.

**Louisiana**

*New Orleans*
Lemann, Thomas B.

**Maryland**

*Baltimore*
Schiller, Milton S.
Sykes, Melvin J.

*Bethesda*
Mayer, Andrew C.

*Chevy Chase*
Kreeger, David Lloyd*

**Massachusetts**

*Boston*
Goldberg, Carol R.
Hiatt, Arnold S.
Hiatt, Howard H.*
Kaplan, Leonard
Lewis, Anthony

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Pearson, John S., Jr.
Pearson, Sulamita R.
Smith, Richard A.
Starr, Sherman H.

*Cambridge*
Abrams, Ruth I.
Freund, Paul A.*
Kuznets, Simon S.*
Sacks, Albert M.*
Wyzanski, Gisela W.

*Framingham*
Feldberg, Sumner L.

*Newton*
Canner, Arnold H.
Horowitz, Robert L.

*Waltham*
Sachar, Abram L.*

*Westwood*
Groper, Earle

## Michigan

*Ann Arbor*
Haber, William*

*Bloomfield Hills*
Levin, Sander M.

*Detroit*
Baum, Victor J.
Binkow, Maurice S.
Page, David K.
Pincus, Max J.
Schwartz, Alan E.

*Southfield*
Berman, Mandell L.
Citrin, Toby
Epstein, Donald R.

## Minnesota

*Minneapolis*
Goldner, Michael D.

## Missouri

*Kansas City*
Smith, Edward A.
Sosland, Morton I.

*St. Louis*
Friedman, William Stix
Stix, William

## Nebraska

*Omaha*
Riekes, Steven J.

## New Hampshire

*Manchester*
Machinist, Milton

## New Jersey

*Englewood*
Weinstock, Gerard

*Trenton*
Goldmann, Sidney

## New York

*Brooklyn*
Birnbaum, Herbert

*Buffalo*
Gardner, Arnold B.

*Elmsford*
Eisner, Gerald

*Great Neck*
Landes, Irwin J.

*Hartsdale*
Cohn, Bertram J.

*Mount Vernon*
Silberman, Charles E.

*New York*
Amory, Cleveland
Baron, Salo W.*
Bernstein, Leonard*
Bialkin, Kenneth J.
Bookheim, Louis W., Jr.
Bushkin, Merle J.
Chase, Myron L.
Cowett, Wilbur A.
Dannett, Emanuel
Doft, Alan
Duboff, Samuel J.
Ehrenkranz, Sanford B.
Ellenoff, Theodore
Everett, Kenneth L.
Farkas, Robin L.
Fishman, Mark I.
Fogel, Edward A.
Frankel, Raymond
Freedman, Melvin H.

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Friedberg, Judith E.
Frost, William Lee
Goodkind, E. Robert
Gordon, Albert H.
Hauser, Rita E.
Hecker, Bruce A.
Helfat, Bernard
Heyman, George H., Jr.
Hinerfeld, Norman M.
Jaffe, Marcus H.
Johnson, Laurence S.
Kahn, E. J., Jr.
Korzenik, Sidney S.
Landis, Donald M.
Lasry, George
Lee, Edward
Levingson, Alfred
Lewis, Peter A.
Liman, Arthur L.
Lipper, Kenneth
Litt, Solomon
Lowin, Jeffrey A.
Luria, Sydney A.
Malkin, Peter L.
Malloy, Edwin A.
Mancher, Harry R.
Marks, Stuart
Mayer, Michael F.
Meltzer, Jay J.
Petschek, Charles I.
Pforzheimer, Carl H., III
Rabb, Maxwell M.
Scheuer, Richard J.
Segal, Erich
Shapiro, Judah J.*
Shasha, Alfred A.
Sher, David
Solomon, Peter J.
Sperry, Paul J.
Starr, Harry
Starr, L. D.
Stern, Malcolm H.
Stern, Walter P.
Stone, Myron K.
Strauss, Peter
Sussman, Albert
Tanner, Harold
Traub, Marvin S.
Wald, Stephen L.
White, Robert E.

White, Theodore H.*
Witkin, Richard

Plainview
Sandler, Marvin

Saratoga Springs
Aldrich, Alexander

Scarsdale
Gerber, Jane S.
Levine, Judith Frost

Syracuse
Ferguson, Tracy H.

White Plains
Maass, Richard

Woodbury
Leslie, Seymour M.

Yonkers
Merians, Melvin L.

## Ohio

Cincinnati
Lazarus, Simon, Jr.
Seasongood, Murray*
Weston, Harris K.

Cleveland
Band, Jordan
Silver, Daniel J.

Columbus
Brachman, Merom

Toledo
Lehman, Doris K.

## Oregon

Portland
Meyer, James A.

## Pennsylvania

Carnegie
Mallet, Dorothy M.

Philadelphia
Pollak, Louis H.*
Shestack, Jerome J.
Wice, David H.

Pittsburgh
Baskin, Philip

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Rhode Island

Providence
Riesman, Robert A.

Tennessee

Memphis
Levinson, Richard S.

Nashville
Steine, David

Texas

Dallas
Jaffe, Morris I.
Lowenberg, Julie G.

Fort Worth
Mack, Theodore

Galveston
Kempner, Harris L., Jr.

Houston
Alexander, Stanford J.
Kaufman, Stephen M.

San Antonio
Gibbons, Patrick T.
Oppenheimer, Jesse H.

Virginia

Norfolk
Nusbaum, Robert C.

Washington

Seattle
Tausend, Fredric C.

Wisconsin

Milwaukee
Herman, David A.
Rapkin, Joseph E.
Sampson, B. J.
Solochek, Bernard

Canada

British Columbia

Vancouver
Oberlander, Cornelia Hahn

Quebec

Montreal
Benson, B. Robert

Ontario

Toronto
Goldhar, Morton R.

Europe

France

Paris
Aron, Raymond*
Cassin, René*

United Kingdom

London
Frankel, William*

Oxford
Berlin, Isaiah*

*Honorary Committee

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Gifts to The Program for the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies will be warmly welcomed. They may be made in cash, securities, pledges, and letters of intent. Arrangements can be made to suit donors who wish to postpone their support. Pamphlets are available describing Harvard's Pooled Income Fund or Chitable Remainder Trusts, and Bequests.