Haskalah Collection

Date range: 18th-20th centuries

Medium: Printed

Number of items: 900 items.

Acquired in 1970 from the historian Professor Chimen Abramsky (1917–2010), the collection relates to the Jewish Enlightenment of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The collection consists of 700 titles in 900 volumes printed between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. The majority of works are 19th-century European maskilic texts, with some works by the most well-known figures from the beginning to the end of the Haskalah.

Within the wide range of topics covered in this collection, belles lettres, biblical texts and commentaries, and Hebrew grammars and dictionaries are the most prolific. There is also a small but significant section of serial runs.

See also:

• Marmorstein Collection
• Moses Gaster Collection
• Teltscher Collection

Further information:

Catalogue available online via Library Search.

Location:

• The John Rylands Library, Deansgate  [Map]
• Find out how to use the reading rooms in the John Rylands Research Institute and Library