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The Dorot Jewish Division is responsible for administering, developing and promoting one of the world’s great collections of Hebraica and Judaica. Reference and research services are available in a dedicated Jewish studies reading room on the first floor of the Library’s landmark Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.

You can contact us with your research questions at freidus@nypl.org. (The Jewish Division's reference email is named after Abraham Solomon Freidus [1867-1923], the first Chief Librarian of the Division).

 Tel Aviv, 1929<br />
Dorot Jewish Division, NYPLHebrew goes Deco for The Divine Woman, Greta Garbo's last silent film. Poster: Tel Aviv, 1929
Dorot Jewish Division, NYPL

Primary source materials are especially rich in the following areas: Jews in the United States, especially in New York in the age of immigration; Yiddish theater; Jews in the land of Israel, through 1948; Jews in early modern Europe, especially Jewish-Gentile relations; Christian Hebraism; antisemitism; and world Jewish newspapers and periodicals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.