É. Apor (ed.): A Scheiber-könyvtár katalógusa / Catalogue of the Scheiber Library.

Menahem Schmelzer: Scheiber professzor szeretett könyvei

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8, particularly the appearance of the earliest illustrated printed Haggadah

9. Scheiber perused catalogs and bibliographies with the kind of excitement that other people experience when they read mystery novels. The fact that he regarded them as the most essential tools of scholarship is manifested in the large number of review articles which he devoted to them . He was also attracted to the great Jewish bookmen and librarians. Accordingly, we have from his pen admiring portraits of Alexander Marx, Elkan Nathan Adler, Solomon Schiller-Szinessy and Salman Schocken

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1. Hungarian Judaica and Hebraica were, of course, a special concern to him. He wrote about the fate and state of Jewish libraries in Hungary

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2 and contributed to the bibliography of Hungarian Jewish periodical literature

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3. His lifelong interest in the recovery of Hebrew manuscripts and manuscript fragments in Hungarian libraries and archives is attested to in a long series of articles and culminated in his well-known and often-consulted book on the subject

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4. Finally, mention should be made of Scheiber's widely quoted contributions on illuminated Hebrew manuscripts, especially his work on the Kaufmann Haggadah 1

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6. Alexander Scheiber's library, his scholarship, his leadership, and his teachings were inseparably intertwined. Undoubtedly, his great library will continue to serve generations of eager students and scholars. Thus, together with the rich scholarly and literary heritage that he left behind, the library will be a living memorial to a towering scholar, inspiring teacher, courageous leader, and a great lover of books and of people. Me nahem Schmelzer The Jewish Theological Seminary of America New York 8. ib., nos. 112, 748, 997. 9. ib., nos. 776, 1481. 10. ib., nos. 13, 849, 1171-1174, 1316-1317, 1349, 1357, 1351-1352, 1359, 1400-1441, 1439-1440, 1476, etc. 11. ti., nos. 426,291,585,940. 12. ib., nos. 165, 235, 1009, 1127,1168,1263. 13. ib., nos. 389,491, 597, 660, 772. 14. ib., nos. 263, 289, 310-311, 427, 429, 448, 452, 501, 590, 665, 945 (his book), 1383. 15. ib., number 487. 16. See: Occident and Orient: a tribute to the memory of Alexander Scheiber, edited by Róbert Dán. Budapest-Leiden, Akadémiai Kiadó and R J. Brill, 1988., p. 331, note 2.