Uniquely situated within a Divinity school community in Nashville, Tennessee, the "Athens of the South," Vanderbilt’s Judaica collection offers patrons and internet visitors the opportunity to familiarize themselves with a wealth of Judaic materials. Vanderbilt Divinity Library staff welcomes you to browse our Judaica collection, and we hope that you will find the selective bibliographies helpful.
Vanderbilt University’s Divinity Library boasts a prestigious Judaica collection the main part of which resides in an adjoining, spacious room just beyond divinity reference. The Judaica stacks are flanked by beautiful paneled walls containing recessed shelves for oversized and non-circulating reference materials; the room also houses many periodicals associated with Jewish institutions of higher learning, publishing houses, and periodicals published in Israel.
The collection includes, in addition to written materials, a 76 roll micro-film (Wiener) holocaust library (including 4 printed guides); CD’s containing virtually all of the extant rabbinic lore from Midrash to Responsa, the 16 volume Encyclopaedia Judaica, and Ginzberg’s Legends of the Jews; videocassettes on topics from the Dead Sea Scrolls to Modern Hebrew instruction to Jewish-Christian-Islamic relations to Elie Wiesel’s 297 minute, 6 videocassette series "Great figures of the Bible"; sui generis, rare documents and memorabilia, (see, e.g., The Franz Rosenzweig Essay and Exhibit by Arnold Betz, and more.