I. Edward Kiev Collection

The I. Edward Kiev Collection is rich in primary sources for research in Bible, rabbinics, Jewish philosophy, liturgy, and Hebrew literature. The collection includes printed books, journals, manuscripts, pamphlets, and archival materials.
 

Cataloged Materials

Cataloged materials from the Kiev Collection can be found in Gelman Library's ALADIN catalog. To see a list of all cataloged materials in the collection, follow these steps:

 

Go to the ALADIN home page. Click on ALADIN Catalog on the left side of the screen. Select Search By: Author. Type i edward kiev and click the Submit button. Double click on the I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection heading to see the list of titles.

Related Collections

Washington, which contains the Library of Congress and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, has always been an area rich in resources for Jewish research. During the years since the founding of the Judaic Studies program, the University's role as a center for Jewish research in Washington has steadily increased, and the Gelman Library collection in support of Judaic Studies has been growing to support that role.

Even before acquiring Rabbi Kiev's collection, Gelman Library's holdings in the field of Judaic Studies were the most comprehensive of all the WRLC libraries. The number of titles we own in the area of Judaism are nearly three times as large as the other WRLC libraries, and nearly four times as large in the area of Hebrew and Yiddish language and literature.

Highlights include the following areas:

• The Special Collections Research Center houses the papers of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington and the Jewish Funeral Practices Committee of Greater Washington, as well as the Halperin collection of maps of the Holy Land.

• The Media Resources Department includes The Jewish Heritage Video Collection, which contains nearly 200 videos to support teaching about Jewish life. This collection was a gift of the Charles H. Revson Foundation.

• Electronic resources including the Judaic Classics Library, a CD-ROM containing the full text of the classic works of Judaism, and theEncyclopædia Judaica, a multimedia CD-ROM.

• Gelman is unique among WRLC libraries in its holdings in the Yiddish language. Most of our Yiddish holdings were obtained by purchasing a collection of 338 titles from the National Yiddish Book Center in 1988. The years of publication extend from the 19th century to the present, although the majority were published between 1930 and 1970.

• We have a growing collection of modern Hebrew literature, both in Hebrew and in English translation.

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