
#1 Jewish Studies Research Collection in the Southeastern United States
#2 Recipient of two National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grants
Top 10 Collection of rare Judaica and Hebraica housed in the unique Judaica Suite
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Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica
Collection History
The Judaica Library was built on a superb collection of books privately owned by Rabbi Leonard C. Mishkin of Chicago. When UF set out to acquire Mishkin's collection in 1977, it was the largest and best personal library of Judaica and Hebraica in the United States.

Event on february 18, 5.30 PM
A Book Talk: No Life Without You: Refugee Love Letters from the 1930s
Join us in the Judaica Suite to hear Dr. Franklin Felsenstein (Professor Emeritus, Ball State University) talk about and read from his book: “No Life Without You: Refugee Love Letters from the 1930s (OpenBook Publishers, 2024). The book tells the story of Ernst and Vera Felsenstein through their letters and journals. Writing during the years leading up to WW2, their letters reveal their desperate efforts to save themselves, family and friends from the fascist tyranny.

newly available online!
Mundo Israelita
Thanks to the Judaica Library’s ongoing partnership with Ariel Abramovich, an Argentinian journalist and editor, and various Jewish institutions and publishers in Argentina, we can now offer online open access to previously inaccessible historical issues of the Jewish journal, Mundo Israelita. Originally founded in 1923 by Salvador Kibrick and Samuel Resnick, this important newspaper was the first Spanish weekly for the Argentine Jewish community.

available online!
Jacksonville Jewish Center Yearbooks
Thanks to generous support from the Shorstein Family Foundation, we have been able to digitize sections of the Jacksonville Jewish Center Archives. The digital collection includes photographs, yearbooks, A/V material, and other records belonging to the Center charting its history and growth from the 1920s to present day.
