05. Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica

Classification

Identifier: 05

With holdings of over 100,000 volumes, the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida, is considered the foremost Jewish studies research collection in the southeastern United States. In terms of many of its scarce late 19th to early 20th century imprints, it ranks among the top 20 academic libraries in the world. Furthermore, many thousands of its titles in Hebrew and Yiddish are held by less than 10 libraries in the United States. Below is a listing of the archival holdings of the Price Library.

Found in 56 Collections and/or Records:

Kurt Metzger Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0434

Abstract

Copies of sermons and Jewish community periodicals written or edited by German-American Rabbi Kurt Metzger (1909-1992) in the 1930s.

Dates: 1931 - 2015; Majority of material found within 1931 - 1939

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Henri Landwirth Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0438

Abstract

Photographs, speeches, scrapbooks, and memorabilia belonging to Holocaust survivor, businessman, hotelier, and philanthropist Henri Landwirth.

Dates: 1958 - 2017

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Blanche Frank Ittleson and Henry Ittleson Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0439

Abstract

The items in the collection relate to the Ittlesons’ private and social life, philanthropy, and Blanche Frank Ittleson’s work in the field of social welfare, child mental health protection, and more. Several photographs of their houses in Palm Beach and the many receipts and notes from their travels abroad illustrate the high standard of the lives they lived.

Dates: 1894 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1921 - 1943

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Edward J. Lavigne Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0440

Abstract

The collection includes personal papers and a photo album that once belonged to Edward J. Lavigne, a US Army photographer during World War II.

Dates: 1945 - 2015

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Robert Glover Holocaust Photographs

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0441

Abstract

The collection contains photographs of World War II and the Holocaust.

Dates: circa 1945

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Allen Kalishman Dachau Photographs

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0442

Abstract

This collection includes slides, photographs, and a written description of Kalishman’s experiences during his one year of military service spent in Austria and Germany from 1955 to 1956 and impressions of the Dachau concentration camp site.

Dates: circa 1955, 2015, undated

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Prager Family Collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0465

Abstract

The photographs, official documents, and ephemera included in this collection document the lives of the Prager family members, especially Moses Prager and his son Jacob, from 1923 to 1961. From Poland, Moses Prager and his family relocated to Belgium. Jacob continued to the United Kingdom escaping the Nazis during World War II. Following the war, he and his wife immigrated to the United States.

Dates: 1923 - 1961

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Schönwald Family Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0510

Abstract The collection includes letters, telegrams, and postcards sent to Henry Wald mostly between 1939 and 1941 by his parents and other relatives. While Henry Wald could escape Nazi Germany - he settled in Lincoln, Nebraska - his parents were waiting for a visa to leave Germany. They hoped to be reunited in the United States. The letters were transcribed and translated to English. An article detailing the history of the family under the Nazi regime by University of Florida professor emeritus of...

Dates: 1939 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1941

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Robert Strassburg Collection on Ernest Bloch

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0517

Abstract

Research material gathered by the noted educator, composer, conductor and musicologist, Dr. Robert Strassburg (1915-2003), focusing on the career and life of composer Ernest Bloch (1880-1959).

Dates: 1880 - 2005

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

Collection on Jewish Organizations in Cuba

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0558

Abstract This collection sheds light on various aspects of Jewish communal life in Cuba from the 1920s until the 1960s. The documents in the collection were created by different Jewish organizations in Havana. The majority of these letters, written agreements, registry entries, affidavits issued to immigrants to both Cuba and the US, and tickets to different events are in Yiddish, also signaling that they are related to the lives of the last large wave of Jewish immigrants to Cuba, mostly from...

Dates: 1925 - 1970

Found in: Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida