From Baltimore to Buenos Aires: New Directions in the Jewish Studies Collections at Johns Hopkins

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This event is presented as the 2022 Paula U. Hamburger Endowed Lecture, which was established in 2003 to honor the late Paula Hamburger's devotion to Johns Hopkins University's libraries by her son, John Greenspan, and granddaughter, Katie Applefeld.

The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University are fortunate to have a broad collection of materials relating to Jewish Studies and to actively add remarkable acquisitions to the collection. This lecture will showcase some of these materials that have been acquired by the Sheridan Libraries over the past two years and discuss how these are being used to inform current faculty research. Some possible applications of these materials to digital humanities research will also be considered.  Librarian Dr. Mack Zalin along with Assistant Professor of Yiddish Dr. Samuel Spinner will discuss the first Yiddish edition of Night by Elie Wiesel; a Zionist pamphlet by Baltimore’s own Henrietta Szold, a founder of Haddasah; and Hopkins’ very large collection of Holocaust memorial books.