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Dorot Jewish Division

The "bitter herb" of the Passover Haggadah

The "bitter herb" of the Passover Haggadah,
magnified and glorified by the decorator of the
Padua Mahzor
Dorot Jewish Division, NYPL

The Dorot Jewish Division has moved to a new location: room 111, on the first floor of the building, accessible through the Periodicals reading room, room 108. The Division is now open six days a week, with the addition of Monday service, 11:00-6:00.

  • The Joy Gottesman Ungerleider Lecture
    The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Sixty Years On

Please note new date: Thursday September 18 at 7 p.m.
The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street

Leading land of Israel archaeologist Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and currently a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, provides an illustrated retrospective of 60 years of excavation and interpretation

Free program. Please register by e-mail: freidus@nypl.org, or phone: 212-930-0601.

The annual Joy Gottesman Ungerleider Lecture is made possible by the Dorot Foundation as part of its support for the
Dorot Jewish Division of The New York Public Library.

The Dorot Jewish Division is one of the great collections of Judaica in the world and the most accessible for both scholarly and personal use. While the collection offers commentary on all aspects of Jewish life it also includes Hebrew and Yiddish-language texts on general subjects. More