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