Yeshiva University Libraries have created a new fellowship, named for the late Herman Prins Salomon, for the 2024-2025 academic year in conjunction with the donation of his personal library, which includes rare books and a focus on the Western Sephardi Amsterdam Jewish community. Professor Salomon, a polyglot and researcher of the Jewish communities of Amsterdam and other Spanish-Portuguese communities, taught in the Department of Languages, Literature and Cultures at the University at Albany, State University of New York, for over forty years. He also served as co-editor of the Yeshiva University publication American Sephardi. The Herman Prins Salomon Fellowship will allow for deep exploration of the Western Sephardi community and its successor communities by inviting scholars to employ Professor Salomon’s rich collection along with the Yeshiva University Libraries’ world renowned Hebraica-Judaica materials and rare books for a period of four to six weeks. The fellow will also present a lecture at Yeshiva University on the research conducted. For more information about fellowship, please visit the fellowship website.

Submit specified application materials to tina.weiss@yu.edu.