Title
Alliance
Israélite Universelle Library
Description
The Alliance Israélite Universelle was founded in 1860. Its library, which dates
from 1904, was looted by the Germans in 1940. They removed 700 crates of books
and manuscripts; some were recovered by the Allies after the war and stored at
their depot for books and manuscripts at Offenbach, before being returned to the
Alliance. In 1992 archives belonging to the library of the Alliance Israélite
Universelle were found in Moscow. These were restituted in May 2001.
The library's collection has three strands: Hebrew (the acquisition of books and manuscripts which are important for Jewish heritage); sources for rabbinical and Jewish studies; and documents on the daily life and history of Jewish communities around the world. The library's archives cover the period 1860-1940 and comprise materials on the history of the Alliance, its schools in many countries, and traditional life in the ghettos of the Orient and the mellahs of North Africa.
Contact
Information
Alliance Israélite Universelle
45, rue La
Bruyère
75428 Paris Cedex 09
Tel: +33 (0)1 53 32 88 55
Fax: +33 (0)1
48 74 51 33
Email: info@aiu.org
http://www.aiu.org
Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 1pm-6pm , Wednesday 1pm - 7.30pm
Source
Alliance
Israélite Universelle, <http://www.aiu.org>, accessed 25 November
2002