The New York Times review of the exhibit \”Precious Possessions: Treasures from the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary.\”
The library [houses] 375,000 volumes, including the largest collection of Hebraica and Judaica in the Western Hemisphere. . . they date from the 11th to the 20th century and come from all over the map: Persia, Italy, Egypt, Brooklyn. Almost every item has a story to tell or a name to drop. Want to see Maimonides\’s signature? Sigmund Freud\’s bookplate? A score written by Leonard Bernstein? They\’re here. And, of course, fragility is part of their allure: books and manuscripts are sensitive to light, which means they should not be on view for long.
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