Elkan Nathan Adler
Elkan Nathan Adler (24 July 1861 in
Adler was particularly interested in the history of Persian (Iranian) Jews. He traveled to Tehran and Bukhara in 1896 and 1897, where he purchased various Hebrew and Judeo-Persian manuscripts and later published descriptive lists of their contents. These publications provided Western scholars with critical insight into the cultural, literary, and intellectual endeavors pursued by the Jews of Iran. The manuscripts collected by Adler include both religious and secular works on various topics, including stories, folklore, calendars, biblical and Talmudic dictionaries, prayer books, liturgical hymns, discourses on Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), and chronicles of religious persecution. In his 1921 summary, Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Collection of E. N. Adler, Adler described over 4,500 manuscripts in his collection.[1]
Overall, Adler collected some 30,000 printed books in
During a visit to Egypt in 1924, Adler acquired a recently discovered jar that contained the private archive of an Egyptian mercenary, Horos son of Nechoutes (c. 145-88 BC), and he personally contributed to the edition of the documents which were published as The Adler Papyri.
Adler published many books about his travels and on his extensive collections, including About Hebrew Manuscripts (1905), A Gazetteer of Hebrew Printing (1917); Jews in Many Lands (1905);
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External links
- Works by or about Elkan Nathan Adler at Internet Archive
- Jewish Encyclopedia
- The Library of The JTS
- Works by and about Elkan Nathan Adler in University Library JCS Frankfurt am Main: Digital Collections Judaica
- Bookplate of Elkan Nathan Adler Rare Books of the Shimeon Brisman Collection in Jewish Studies, Washington University
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