Gershwind-Bennett Isaac Leeser Digital Repository
Gershwind-Bennett Isaac Leeser Digital Repository

The first Jesselson-Kaplan American Genizah project initiative took as its subject the dispersed corpus of Isaac Leeser’s correspondence, the entire run of the Occident, and his publications. Thanks to a start-up grant from the Gershwind-Bennett Families, we began transcribing and scanning the correspondence, ultimately creating the Gershwind-Bennett Isaac Leeser Digital Repository.


Project Team and Advisors:
  • The American Jewish Archives (Cincinnati, OH)
  • American Jewish Historical Society (New York, NY)
  • Michael Jesselson
  • Jesselson-Kaplan American Genizah Project Advisory Board Member and Board Member of the American Jewish Historical Society (New York, NY)
  • Arnold Kaplan
  • Member of the American Jewish Archives Ezra Consortium, Jesselson-Kaplan American Genizah Project Advisory Board Member, and Board Member of the American Jewish Historical Society (New York, NY)
  • Abraham J. and Deborah Karp
  • Scholars; Collectors
  • Collection of Judaica Americana at the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (New York, NY)
  • Dr. Gary Zola
  • Executive Director of the American Jewish Archives (Cincinnati, OH)
  • Oren Weinberg
  • Director, National Library of Israel
  • Dr./Rabbi Lance Sussman
  • Congregation Keneseth Israel (Elkins Park, PA)
  • Naomi Steinberger
  • Director of Library Services, Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary (New York, NY)
  • Dr. Jonathan D. Sarna
  • Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University and Director of its Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program (Waltham, MA)
  • Eric Kingsley
  • Executive Director, American Jewish Historical Society (New York, NY)
  • Dr. David Kraemer
  • Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at The Jewish Theological Seminary (New York, NY)