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Category: German

Magnus Hirschfeld & sex reform

Posted on 27 February 2023 by Special Collections

Post by Alina Wanitzek (Assistant Librarian, Department of Psychology) In October 2022, San Francisco–based queer public historian and book dealer Gerard Koskovich came to Cambridge […]

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German, Rare Books, Special Collections

Arthur Schnitzler digital: new resources. Guest post by Andrew Webber

Posted on 30 October 2017 by Special Collections

The leading Austrian Modernist writer, Arthur Schnitzler, died on 21 October 1931. Marking the anniversary of the author’s death, the digital portal constructed for the […]

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Anniversaries, Archives, Digital Resources, German

A book from J. S. Bach’s library

Posted on 31 March 2015 by Liam Sims

On 31 March 1685 was born Johann Sebastian Bach, widely regarded as one of best composers the world has ever known. The Library is fortunate […]

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Collectors and collecting, German, Music, Rare Books, Special Collections

The cyclist as hero: Harry Graf Kessler and private press books

Posted on 7 July 2014 by Special Collections

This guest post, written by Dr Jaap Harskamp (formerly Curator of Dutch & Flemish collections at the British Library, who is now working on the […]

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German, Rare Books, Special Collections

A very individual artist: Arthur Szyk and his world

Posted on 20 January 2012 by Catherine Ansorge

The Library has recently received a generous donation of a copy of the very fine Passover ‘Haggadah’ illustrated by Arthur Szyk, the 20th century Polish […]

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German, Near and Middle Eastern, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

“The most interesting objects”

Posted on 24 August 2011 by Jill Whitelock

Two recent acquisitions enhance our strong collections in natural history, anatomy and the history of collecting. The first is a catalogue of the natural history […]

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French, German, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

Eighteenth-century English erotica for a discerning German wartime audience

Posted on 28 June 2011 by Ed

The Rare Books Department has just purchased a rather unusual piece of First-World-War printing. John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, or Fanny Hill […]

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German, Rare Books, Recent acquisitions

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