An exhibition in the Proscholium
Bodleian Library
University of Oxford
12 FEBRUARY – 27 MARCH 2011
THE EXHIBITION WILL BE INAUGURATED ON 14 FEBRUARY 2011
BY DR PIET VAN BOXEL
HEBREW CURATOR - BODLEIAN LIBRARY
FELLOW LIBRARIAN – OXFORD CENTRE FOR HEBREW AND JEWISH STUDIES
The manuscripts and books on display are selected from the library of David Oppenheimer (1664-1736), Chief Rabbi of Prague, now at the Bodleian Library, and from the collection assembled by the famous nineteenth-century scholar Leopold Zunz, acquired by the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies with the support of the Foyle Foundation. They tell the story of the emergence of Jewish Enlightenmnet in Germany with special attention to its most famous figure, Moses Mendelssohn.
