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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.

Yizkor (Memorial) Book Collection in the Price Library of Judaica

Event on november 18, 2024, 6.30 PM

The Ghosts on the Wall: A Grandson’s Memoir of the Holocaust

Ken Wald’s newest book, The Ghosts on the Wall: A Grandson’s Memoir of the Holocaust (2024), is the story of his family in Hitler’s Germany and afterwards in the US. There will be a book talk at Congregation B’nai Israel featuring Ken Wald and moderator Rebecca Jefferson, curator of the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida.

Ken Wald is Emeritus Professor of Political Scientist and the inaugural holder of the Bud Shorstein Chair in American Jewish Culture and Society, University of Florida. He has written about the relationship of religion and politics in the United States, Great Britain, and Israel. His most recent books include The Politics of Cultural Differences: Social Change and Voter Mobilization Strategies in the Post-New Deal Period (2002) and Religion and Politics in the United States (2003).

Image of book cover for Ghosts on the Wall

newly available online!

La Luz: Revisita Quincenal Literaria Hebrea

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 the previously inaccessible Jewish journal, La Luz: Revisita Quincenal Literary Hebrea (The Light: Biweekly Hebrew Literary Magazine). Originally founded in 1931 by Don David Elnecavé, this magazine has been edited by three generations of the Sephardi Elnecavé family through to 2015.

Cover of La Luz August 1932