From time to time, books appear for sale that have come from the Jews College Library, in London, and I have occasionally bought these and previously written about them.
Jews College was founded in 1855 as a Rabbinical College in London. It was a college of the University of London until recent years, and has been renamed the London School of Jewish Studies and moved to Hendon (a suburb of North-West London). Presumably my books came from one of the sales from the Library to raise funds in approximately 2004.
I have a copy of Ein Yaakov, printed in Amsterdam in 1742, from the Jews College Library.
In 1948, Rev. M. Elton was designated Librarian of the College, and a young Miss Ruth P. Lehmann, a propective student of librarianship, was employed as Assistant Librarian. She was born in Altona, near Hamburg, in 1930, and came to London in 1939. She was appointed Acting Librarian in 1954 and Chief Librarian in 1955. In 1973, on her marriage to Josef Goldschmidt, a Member of the Knesset, she moved to Jerusalem.
The booklet reproduced below, was written by Ruth Lehmann. It was printed in Whitechapel, at the Narod Press.





















2 thoughts on “Jews College, London, The Library, A History, by Ruth P. Lehmann, London, 1967.”