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COLLECTION — Multiple Containers Identifier: 57JM-33

Lee M. Friedman collection of documents and photostats on Judaica

Dates

  • Creation: 1600-1900

Language of Materials

Materials are in French, German, Hebrew, and English.

Extent

1 linear feet (2 boxes)

Biographical / Historical

Lee M. Friedman, member of the Harvard College Class of 1893, was one of the founders of the Jewish American Historical Society in the 1890s and wrote the book Early American Jews with Harvard University Press in 1934. He left a bequest to establish a Judaica endowment in the Harvard College Library for the acquisition of Judaica publications, for the maintenance of the Judaica Collection, and for the appointment of a librarian for Judaica.

Arrangement

Collection is unprocessed.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Lee M. Friedman.

Processing Information

Minimal description derived from existing records and converted to online finding aid, Betts Coup, 2020.

Title
Friedman, Lee M. 1871-1957. Lee M. Friedman collection of documents and photostats on Judaica, 1600-1900 (57JM-33): Guide
Status
completed
Author
Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Date
2018 November 16
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou04315

Repository Details

Part of the Houghton Library Repository

Houghton Library is Harvard College's principal repository for rare books and manuscripts, archives, and more. Houghton Library's collections represent the scope of human experience from ancient Egypt to twenty-first century Cambridge. With strengths primarily in North American and European history, literature, and culture, collections range in media from printed books and handwritten manuscripts to maps, drawings and paintings, prints, posters, photographs, film and audio recordings, and digital media, as well as costumes, theater props, and a wide range of other objects. Houghton Library has historically focused on collecting the written record of European and Eurocentric North American culture, yet it holds a large and diverse number of primary sources valuable for research on the languages, culture and history of indigenous peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

Houghton Library’s Reading Room is free and open to all who wish to use the library’s collections.

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