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StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelFile
Reference Number GASTER/2/D/2/13
TitleVivian Gaster: Correspondence re. sale of Moses Gaster's library
Date1950-1953
DescriptionSome 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.
Extent4 folders
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
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