Columbia Collected Judaica for Over 250 Years. We Saw It Firsthand. | Show & Tale: Columbia (Full)

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

our series show and tale will take you inside some of the great libraries both public and private to explore books and treasures from jewish history so i was told that we are in the butler the columbia butler library tell us where we really are because i know i got that wrong there's no question i got it wrong we're in the rare book and manuscript library at columbia university which happens to be in the building called butler library gotcha do we know who butler was i assumed we know who butler was i assumed nicholas murray butler was former no no no um and i don't think he would want to be related to him um nicholas murray butler was a former president of colombia um known for all sorts of things including that he was not a big fan of jews although he did hire salah baron who was an amazing who we love very very happy to have so colombia has an incredible judaica collection it does indeed very rare how'd it get all the stuff so columbia's collection began with columbia collection began with columbia university the founder of columbia university was samuel johnson who was a christian hebrews he was interested in the study of hebrew and he was collecting hebrew books he actually taught hebrew at colombia in 1754 when the university was established and hebrew continued to be taught as a classical language here through through the 18th century the founder of columbus samuel johnson spoke and wrote hebrew correct and taught hebrew and taught hebrews so fast yeah in fact we have a grammar book

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