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In addition to general collections and online subscription databases, journals, and ebooks, the Library holds more than 500 named collections which are distinguished by their specialized subject matter, age, uniqueness, or value. Most of the listed collections on this page are located in the John Hay Library. To locate digitized collections, see the list available at the Center for Digital Scholarship site and search the Brown Digital Repository.
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Wandering Jew Collection
The gift of W. Easton Louttit, Jr., Class of 1925, this collection includes plays, poems, novels, and stories, and prints, as well as critical, philosophical, and scholarly studies of the archetypical story of men shut out from the human community and doomed to wander eternally. Possibly the finest accumulation of books on this theme to be found outside the Bibliotheque Nationale. It contains over 1,500 volumes featuring works by Goethe, Schiller, Shelley, Feuchtwanger, Edwin Arlington Robinson and especially Eugene Sue.
Format(s): Books, Manuscripts, Broadsides, Sheet Music
Library: John John Hay
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Access to the collection:
Online Catalog (BruKnow):
General description of the collection available on BruKnow
Wandering Jew Collection (Brown University
Other Online Access:
Non-brown Web Page: Jewish Encyclopedia (1906): Wandering Jew
Non-brown Web Page: Encyclopedia Mythica: Wandering Jew