Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Letters from the desert
Other Name
Mikhtavim min ha-midbar. English (Alternate title)
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
Sharon Books, Inc.
Place
Date
1945
Physical Description
Language
Hebrew
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Provenance Details
Bookplate: Ex libris Hyman and Rose Morrison. Image of Moses holding the Ten Commandments looks down on a panorama of modern Israel. A caduceus is placed in the lower right corner. Text in Latin and Hebrew.
Another example of this bookplate and description above on Duke University Medical Center website:
https://medspace.mc.duke.edu/bookplate-hyman-and-rose-morrison (accessed 20/5/2016)
[Biographical notes from Harvard website: Hyman Morrison (1881-1963), A.B., 1905, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; M.D., 1908, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, was a visiting physician at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, a clinical professor of medicine at Tufts College Medical School in Medford, Massachusetts, and Chief of Medicine at Boston State Hospital, Massachusetts.]
http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~med00132
Public Access Text
[Keywords: World War Two; Second World War]
Translation of: Mikhtavim min ha-midbar.
Collection Type
Reserve Collection
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
Language Description
Translated from the Hebrew
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