photo

Harris Collection Image

Special Collections

In addition to the Graduate Library’s collections of books and periodicals, the Special Collections Library holds a growing number of rare Hebraica books and manuscripts including

  • Tenth century Pentateuch
  • Eighteenth century miniature Torah scroll
  • High quality facsimile reproductions of the Leningrad Codex
  • Rothschild Miscellany and Damascus Pentateuch
  • Joseph T. and Marie Adler Collection of Holocaust Materials, which consists of correspondence, documents, posters, stamps, currency, and other Holocaust memorabilia and realia assembled by Mr. Adler over the course of more than fifty years
  • Papers of Yehudah Leyb Levin, a prominent rabbi in Detroit during the first quarter of the twentieth century
  • Jewish Heritage Collection Dedicated to Mark and Dave Harris consisting of art work, objects, books, and ephemera on all aspects of the Jewish experience, a collection that continues to grow.
  • About forty percent of the Schwarz Collection is also located in the Special Collections Library.

2111 Thayer Bldg.
University of Michigan
202 S. Thayer Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608
Phone: 734-763-9047
Fax: 734-936-2186
The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies