“From Budapest to Jerusalem: Ignaz Goldziher’s Library and the Founding of Islamic Studies in Israel”
Hosted By: The National Library of Israel (NLI)
As soon as Hungarian-Jewish scholar Ignaz Goldziher died in 1921, governments across the world began scheming how to get a hold of his personal library.
For decades, Goldziher was the leading European authority on Islam, a founding father of the modern field of Islamic Studies.
His collection numbered some 6,000 volumes in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, German, French, English, and a host of other languages on all aspects of Islamic civilization, as well as linguistics, Judaica, Hebrew literature and more.
Why was this extraordinary collection so important to the Zionist movement and how did it wind up in Jerusalem, where it remains at the core of the National Library of Israel’s Islam and Middle East Collection?!
“From Budapest to Jerusalem: Ignaz Goldziher’s Library and the Founding of Islamic Studies in Israel”
With Dr. Samuel Thrope, curator of the Islam and Middle East Collection at the National Library of Israel
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