Chaim Grade’s Library
Inna Hecker Grade, the wife of the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade, recently died. As a result of her death, a number of libraries are examining the many books and manuscripts that Grade left behind. There is an interesting article in the New York Times about the library and his papers which can be found here. The picture of Grade and his wife in their library caught my eye. It can be found here and you can zoom in a little bit. I was trying to identify the books on his shelf and I think that I was able to identify: Mirken’s edition of Midrash Rabbah, Salo Baron’s Social and Religious History of the Jews, maybe Ha-Encyclopedia ha-Ivrit, a possible volume of Mossad ha-Rav Kooks’s Rambam la-Am. Is anyone able to identify anything else?
