Dear Safranim:
Now viewable on-line via the Penn Libraries' website is the Moldovan
Family Holy Land Map Collection:
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/moldovanmaps/index.cfm
The physical collection was built over several decades by Dr. Alfred
Moldovan and his family. It consists of 94 discrete maps dating from
1480-1797, printed in 23 distinct locations across Europe. The majority
of the maps were printed in the 17th and 18th centuries in Amsterdam,
Antwerp, Basel, Lyon, Paris, Rome, Strassburg, Tuebingen, and Venice.
There are over fifty cartographers and engravers represented, including
Adrichem, Bunting, Calmet, Hole, Mercator, Munster, Ortelius, Visscher,
Wit, and Ziegler. It also features the unique surviving copy of Antonio
De Angelis’s map of Jerusalem, printed in Rome in 1578. These digital
facsimiles were presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Alfred Moldovan
before his death in 2013. Dr. Moldovan was one of the world’s foremost
Judaica collectors over the last half-century, an expert on the
authenticity of Jewish ceremonial art, and a hero of the Civil Rights
movement. As a founding member of the Medical Committee for Human
Rights, Dr. Moldovan attended the famous March on Washington, D.C. in
August 28, 1963 and provided a medical presence at Selma, Alabama on
"Bloody Sunday," March 7, 1965. We are grateful to the late Dr.
Moldovan, to his son Joseph Moldovan, Penn C'76, and to the entire
Moldovan family for their support for our Judaica collections and programs.
Thanks,
Arthur
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Arthur Kiron, Ph.D.
Schottenstein-Jesselson Curator of Judaica Collections
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
3420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206
T. (215) 573-7431
F. (215) 898-0559
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/judaica/
Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
420 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
T. (215) 238-1290 ext 202
F. (215) 238-1540
Wednesday and Friday
http://www.library.upenn.edu/cajs/
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