The Amsterdam University Library has an impressive stock of approximately four million volumes, and special collections of rare manuscripts, letters and maps. One of the collections is The Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana, which houses the majority of the collections of the University Library in the field of Jewish culture and history. The foundations for the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana were laid by Leeser Rosenthal (1794–1868), who left a collection of some 6,000 volumes when he died. The Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana has since developed from a German library of enlightenment to a general library on Jewish history and culture with works in all of the languages that Jews have used over the centuries. Today the library contains approximately 120,000 works, including 1,000 manuscripts and around 80 archives.
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