Areas of secondary interest include topics related to Jewish culture or materials with potential relevance to academic programs beyond Jewish Studies. Acquisitions in these areas are made selectively, often in a more limited manner.
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Ancient Near East; Orientalia: Selective acquisitions support the study of ancient Israel in relation to its neighbors, covering topics such as biblical archaeology, epigraphy, Hebrew and Semitic linguistics. These materials often focus on the interconnections between Israel and surrounding ancient civilizations. Acquisitions typically consist of scholarly works, multi-author volumes, and festschriften that span multiple disciplines and include essays of Jewish relevance.
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Biography: The Price Library primarily collects individual and collective biographies and autobiographies of Jews who have made significant contributions within the Jewish community. Biographies and autobiographies of Jews recognized for their achievements in fields such as sports, media, arts, and sciences are generally acquired by the relevant subject specialists across the Libraries.
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Genealogy: The Library typically makes limited acquisitions of published genealogies and family histories. Individual unpublished genealogies and family histories may be accepted based on their relevance to Latin American, Caribbean, and Florida Jewish history.
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Creative writing with Jewish Themes or Characters: Creative works by Jewish authors with little or no Jewish content are collected by the subject specialist selectors in the relevant national literatures. The Price Library retains primary responsibility for original creative writing in Hebrew or Yiddish, their English translations, and studies of Jewish writers as a distinct class of writers.
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Hebrew and Yiddish Theatre History: The Price Library selectively collects materials on the history of Hebrew and Yiddish theatre, emphasizing both scholarly works and original plays.
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Jewish Art History: The Price Library selectively collects materials on the history and development of Jewish liturgical objects, ritual art, synagogue architecture, and sepulchral monuments. Studies of art by Jewish or Israeli artists with little or no Jewish content are collected by the Architecture and Fine Arts Library.
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Jewish Education: The Price Library selectively acquires materials relevant to the history and development of Jewish education, both religious and secular, at all levels and in all countries. Curricular materials for professional educators, textbooks for school use, and audio-visual materials for classroom or recreational use are not collected.
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Jewish Folklore: The Price Library collects scholarly studies of Jewish folklore, including editions of Jewish tales, proverbs, and works of humor.
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Jewish Law: The Price Library does not collect materials on Israeli civil and criminal law, as this falls under the responsibility of the Legal Information Center.
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Jewish Medicine: The Price Library selectively collects key studies on Jewish medical law and ethics.
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Jewish Music: The Price Library collects scholarly studies on the history and criticism of Jewish sacred and popular music, ballads, and folk music. The Library retains the music anthologies, hymnals, musical scores, etc., previously held in the Music Library, but it does not actively collect Jewish music.
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Jewish Numismatics: The Library occasionally selects major monographs and standard catalogs, along with primary periodicals in English.
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Jewish Philately: The Library occasionally selects major monographs and standard catalogs related to Jewish philately.
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Jewish Onomastics: The Library occasionally selects key studies on Jewish onomastics.
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Jewish Epigraphy: The Library occasionally selects key studies on Jewish epigraphy.
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Jewish Press History: The Library maintains an extensive collection of anniversary issues of newspapers and journals; it actively collects digital scans of Jewish newspapers from Florida, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
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Jewish Printing and Publishing History: The Price Library maintains an extensive historic collection of works on Jewish bibliography, Hebrew printing and typography, Jewish publishing, and library catalogs of Hebrew manuscripts, and it selectively adds materials to this collection.
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Jewish Sociology: The Library strategically collects materials on Jewish sociology, including studies on attitudinal behavior, demographics, voting behavior, intermarriage, assimilation, identity, mobility, occupations, and the Jewish woman. Materials in English are prioritized, but foreign language works are also acquired, particularly within the context of community histories.