Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana
The Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana is a special Jewish library and part of the Amsterdam University Library . It includes a large collection of prints from the 15th century and manuscripts from the 13th century onwards, as well as magazines , prints , drawings, photographs and archive materials . It was built by the Hanoverian Rabbi Leeser Rosenthal (1794–1868) from 1880 and came from the hands of his heirs to the then municipal library in Amsterdam. With approx. 6000 volumes, the Rosenthaliana is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II , the library was stripped of its holdings. The Dutch archivist Dirk Petrus Marius Graswinckel was able to locate these in the Offenbach Archival Depot after the end of the war . The library was able to reopen in Amsterdam at the beginning of November 1946. Rabbi Isaac Leo Seeligmann, who had survived internment in Theresienstadt, became the first director.
Stocks
- Hebraica and Judaica from the northern Netherlands from the 17th to 19th centuries, including an almost complete collection of the works of Menasse ben Israel and Jakob Juda Leon
- Materials on the Inquisition and Sephardic Judaica from the Cassuto Collection
- History of the Jews in the Netherlands and Germany
- History of the Jewish Book
Individual evidence
- ^ Elisabeth Gallas : "The morgue of books" Cultural restitution and Jewish historical thinking (= writings of the Simon Dubnow Institute . No. 19 ). Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-525-36957-9 , pp. 46 .
- ↑ Information about the collection and the family on the homepage Das Jewish Hamburg