Hebraica

Contains digitized material

Main collection

Special Collections

Parent collection

The legal deposit collections from the period of Russian rule

Accrual status

Completed

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Collection description and availability

Collection description

The Hebraica Collection contains works in Hebrew and Yiddish published in Russian empire from 1828 to 1917 which the library received as deposit copies.

Among the collection's 5,000 titles are fiction and poetry, religious literature, literature in the Humanities and Sciences, textbooks, dictionaries, children's books, almanacs and calendars, and newspapers and periodicals.

Catalogue information

The collection has been only partially catalogued

The alphabetised and systematic card catalogue is in the Special Collections Reading Room. Cataloguing is unfinished.

Collection materials in format

Analogue
Digitised

Material type

Books
Newspapers
Aikakauslehdet
Ephemera

Link

185 titles published in the Fenno-Ugrica Collection

Signum

H Hebr.

Restrictions of use

Only for Special Collections Reading Room

Contact information:

Subcollections

Parallel collection

Index terms:

Collection coverage

Topics

research on the Middle Ages
research of learning and science history
research of literary culture
literary research
research of Russia and Eastern Europe

Collection languages:

Multiple languages

Collection size

5000 titles of publications
71 linear metres

Temporal coverage of the collection

beginning of the modern age
modern age (turn of the 18th and 19th century to the 20th century)
modern times (1900-)

Spatial coverage of the collection

Itä-Eurooppa
Venäjä

Cataloguing principles

A. The Bible

B. Prayer books (siddur, mahzor, haggada sel pesah, etc.)

C. Rabbi literature (Mishnah, Talmud, midras, responsa, halacha, commentaries, etc.)

D. Humanities literature (history, philosophy, socialism, Zionism)

E. Fiction and poetry

F. Textbooks (in Hebrew and Yiddish)

G. Medicine, technology, agriculture, etc.

H. Dictionaries and reference books

I. Serial publications

J. Varia

Publications

Harviainen, Tapani, The Hebraica Collection of Helsinki University Library. British Library Occasional Papers 13. Hebrew Studies. London, 1991.
Harviainen, Tapani, "Hauraita helmiä heprean kirjaimin", teoksessa Muistiin painettua. Kansalliskirjaston kulttuuriaarteita. Helsingin yliopiston kirjaston julkaisuja 74. Helsinki, 2004, s. 94–97.
Harviainen, Tapani, “The Hebraica”, teoksessa Halén, Harry, Handbook of Oriental Collections in Finland. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies. Monograph series 31. London & Malmö, 1977, s. 289–294.
Hentinen, Aino, ”Helsingin yliopiston kirjaston Hebraica-kokoelma”, Bibliophilos 21 (1962), s. 57–61.