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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 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.

Flyer advertising a book talk by Franklin Felsenstein

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.

Cover of the Mexican Jewish newspaper Mundo Israelita

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.

Front cover of Jacksonville Jewish Center Yearbook