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U-M opens vast Judaica vaults, giving
the public a peak at the past.

will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
March 16, featuring talks by Gertel and
professor. Zvi Gitelman, director of U-
ewish history buffs and art
M's Jean and Samuel Frankel Center
lovers are being offered a special
for Judaic Studies. The community is
opportunity to view rare arti-
invited to all events at no charge.
facts from the University of
Included in the exhibit are letters
Michigan's renowned Judaica collection.
from Rebecca Gratz, dated 1850 and
A Chumash (Five Books of Moses)
1857. Gratz was an heiress from
hand-lettered more than
Philadelphia who hobnobbed
1,000 years ago is
with writer
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Gertel said Gratz was
the University of
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Michigan."
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Rebecca in Ivanhoe
ly seen and handled," said
was a very noble person, a
Elliot Gertel, U-M's
true heroine," Gertel said.
Irving M. Hermelin
"She was Jewish. She was
Curator of Judaica. The
one of the key figures in
book is known in schol-
the novel and a very hero-
arly circles as the
ic, self-sacrificing and very
"Michigan Manuscript,"
with the
beautiful figure.
after the university
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collection housing it.
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collection is the largest
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more than 75,000
turned open to recipes
items, mostly Hebrew,
for Pesach and sections on
Yiddish and English language
puddings
and sauces."
an overlap pi ng
b ooks, scattered in more than
The
exhibit
includes
alphabet s om
20 libraries. and storage areas
Haggadot and a showcase on
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around campus. The current
20th-century artists. There
exhibit offers collection high-
are 1845 issues of the first
lights, all at one place and time.
American Jewish newspaper from
The show is open six days a week
Philadelphia. One of the first English-
until April 29 at the Harlan Hatcher
language Hebrew prayer gooks pub-
Graduate Library on the Ann Arbor
lished in the New World, from 1766,
campus. A formal opening reception
is on display as well as old copies of
U-M's Hillel News from the 1930s.
David Sachs can be reached at
"We do have a real cross-section
(248) 354-6060, ext. 262, or by e-mail
and wide range of Jewish themes in
at dsachs@thejewishnews.com
the exhibit, Gertel said. El

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"Judaic Journeys at the University of Michigan" is open through April 29.
Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m.-noon Saturdays at the U-M
Special Collections Library, seventh floor of the Harlan Hatcher Graduate
Library, near South University Avenue and State Street on the Ann Arbor
campus. Admission is free, with guided tours available for groups.
A formal reception with curator Elliot Gertel and professor Zvi
Gitelman is free and open to the community at 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
March 16, at the exhibition. Kosher refreshments will be served. For infor-
mation, call Gertel, (734) 936-2367.

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