Description | Some of Vivian Gaster's papers relating to the distribution of the estate of his father, Moses Gaster. These papers consist of correspondence, reports, memos, notes, and press cuttings, regarding:
- the sale of c.6,000 Hebrew and Jewish books to 'Messrs Bamberger and Wahrmann', Jerusalem; - the sale of the collection of Romanian books to the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London; - the Gaster Collection at the Manuscript Department, John Rylands Library, Manchester; - a painting of Moses Gaster; - the Azriel and Ethel Gaster Synagogue, Bucharest. |