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Library Receives Gift From
Denmark
The University Library recently was given
a 590-page illustrated book titled "Danish Jewish Art - Jews
in Danish Art," a gift from the Royal Danish Ministry of
Education and Denmark's International Study Program (DIS). WIU's
Travel and Study Abroad program and the DIS signed a reciprocal
exchange agreement in 1998, allowing Western students to study
a variety of liberal arts programs taught in English at the University
of Copenhagen.
"Both the Danish Ministry of Education
and DIS have long been committed to the promotion of international
education and understanding," wrote the organizations' administrators
Dinah Bechshoft and Anders Uhrskov in a letter accompanying the
book. "It is our hope that your institution may use this
large and magnificently illustrated book as a resource for students,
faculty, and other scholars to gain a deeper understanding of
an important part of Danish and Jewish history and culture."
The book, edited by Mirjan Gelfer-Jorgensen,
represents the cooperation between 12 Danish and international
researchers and art historians throughout the past eight years,
with much of the research and most illustrations published for
the first time.
"This history of Danish Jews is known
to many in the U.S. because of the escape of the vast majority
of the Danish Jews from the Nazi-occupied Denmark to Sweden in
October 1943," Bechshoft and Uhrskov wrote.
The gift places WIU among 14 libraries,
including the Library of Congress and the National Gallery of
Art, to have a copy of this reference book.
"We are honored to receive this beautiful
book and to donate it to the WIU Library for use by members of
the University and surrounding communities," said Linda
Stickney-Taylor, extended and continuing education.
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