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There are rare volumes from the Mr. and Mrs. Theodore E. Cummings Collection of Hebraica and Judaica. Italian Hebraica is in the Ahmanson-Murphy collections, including many titles from the Bomberg, Soncino, and Adelkind printing houses. There is a collection of miscellaneous 19th century pamphlets once the collection of the Reverend Dr. Moses Gaster, and one of 20th century pamphlets of organizations, such as the Jewish Defense League. The Rabbi N. Feldman and Rabbi Hayyim Rosenberg collections contain several hundred individual manuscripts from the 15th through the 19th centuries. |
| Nahmanides, ca. 1195 - ca.1270. Perush ha-Torah [page serving as title page, scanned and enlarged]. Lisbon, Eliezer Toledano, 15 July 1489. A 1 M854p 1489 | |
 | Known as Nahmanides, Moses ben Nahman was born in Spain and died in the Holy Land. One of the great minds of Jewish scholarship during the Middle Ages, he was the author of over 30 works. This volume, a commentary on the Pentateuch, is considered his masterpiece. The first edition was printed in Rome about 1480. This second edition is perhaps the first book printed in Portugal; it is certainly the first book printed in Lisbon. It is well preserved and almost complete, which is unusual for a Hebrew incunable. The Hebrew script is very beautiful. The text of the title page is enclosed within woodcut borders and several leaves begin with woodcut initials. This is the oldest printed book in the UCLA Library's Jewish Studies collection. |
Gerardus Cremonensis, of Sabbioneta, 13th cent. Tehorice [sic] planetarum nuper aedite cum declarationibus additionibus ac figuris peroptime signatis quae sine aliquo comento intelligi possunt. / [imitantes Gerardum cremone[n]sem ...] Pisauri: Impraessum per Hieronymum Soncinum ..., Calen. April. [1 April] 1508. Z 233 I8G47t
Jonah ben Abraham Gerondi, ca. 1200-1263. Shaare ha teshuvah. Fano: Gersom b.Mose Soncino, 1504-6. SCB 119882
Report of the Ceremonial and Proceedings in Connexion with Laying the Foundation Stone of the New Schools of the Liverpool Hebrews' Educational Institution and Endowed Schools, August 31st, 5612 - 1852. Liverpool: Printed by Egerton Smith and Co., Mercury Office, Lord Street. Bound in full leather, stamped on cover: Abraham Abraham Esq., President of the Institution. Signature on title page: M. Gaster. Also 2 other representative pamphlets, including one from the Synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, 1885. In: Judaic pamphlets, 1870 - 1956. Collection 1396. Box 1 (of 1)
Harris Newmark, 1834 - 1916. Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853 - 1913: Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark. Edited by Maurice H. and Marco R. Newmark. 4th ed., rev. and augmented with an introduction and notes by W. W. Robinson. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1984.
The introduction to this volume is by local historian W. W. Robinson, also a Los Angeles institution, whose papers were given to the Dept. Robinson wrote: "Harris Newmark, a young German Jew fresh out of East Prussia, arrived in Los Angeles in 1853. He came to love the town, so much so that in his final, affluent years he and his family produced this book of reminiscences as an expression of a pioneer's gratitude for the opportunities of life a free America had made possible."
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