Laramie, WY – The University of Wyoming has purchased two historical Jewish scrolls for the Toppan Rare Books Library at the American Heritage Center.
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Rare books curator Anne Marie Lane says the books were purchased through the Heritage Center’s Edmund I. Woodbury Fund.
1 of the books is a Jewish Torah scroll from the late 19th or early 20th century that is probably from Lithuania.
The second book is a Jewish Book of Esther scroll from around 1900 from Yemen that’s made of gazelle skin.
Heritage Center Director Mark Greene says the new books help make the “Toppan Library a vibrant part of the university’s curriculum, rather than a cloistered museum with limited access.”
Nebach. For these sifrei Kodesh to be locked away in a museum, rather than used by Yidden for Mitzvos, is a tragedy.
Can we redeem it from their hands?
There are already dozens of sifrei torah in museums around the world.
Dovid does that make it ok?
Are there any Yidden in Wyoming? I passed through Univ. of Wyoming ten years ago on a business trip. It is a nice campus, but are there Yidden? I don’t even know if there is a Chabad !!! Why do they need a Sefer Torah ? Ich ves nicht !!!
They probably need to be buried
A different question is why a “19 or early 20 century Lithuanian” s/t is considered ‘historic’???
There is chabad in wyoming, but there wasn’t 10 years ago. I think they are only there 4 or 5 years. My friend’s brother is the shliach there.
We should do all we can to rescue the Sefer.
It is nothing historical or rare what they had bought. Most Sifrei Torah’s in the world are over a hundred years old. Doik Vetishkach.