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Yale
recieved its first great Judaica collection in 1915 when
the collection of the late Rabbi Alexander Kohut was given
to Yale by his son George Alexander Kohut. The collection
of about 5000 books and periodicals consisted of rare and
important works which represented Jewish scholarship from
antiquity to the beginning of the 20th Century. in 1933,
Yale’s great curator of Hebrew and Arabic materials,
Leon Nemoy, organized an exhibit of a selection of books
that came to Yale with the Alexander Kohut Memorial Collection.
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