Brad Sabin Hill assumes the role of Curator of the I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection as of January 14, 2007.   In the two week period prior to that date, Mr. Hill will be working on a variety of projects related to the collection.

Mr. Hill comes to GWU with extensive knowledge and experience in Hebraic and Judaic bibliography and librarianship.  Before serving as Dean of the Library and Senior Research Librarian at the YIVO Institute in New York (2002-2007), he held positions in Britain and Canada, as Librarian and Fellow in Hebrew Bibliography at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (1996-2001), as Head of the Hebrew Section of the British Library (1989-1996), and as Curator of Rare Hebraica in the National Library of Canada in Ottawa (1979-1989).  The author of a number of books and articles in the field of Hebrew bibliography and booklore, including Incunabula, Hebraica & Judaica (1981) and Hebraica from the Valmadonna Trust (1989), Hill has published studies on Hebrew typography and Hebrew libraries, as well as on Yiddish manuscripts and Yiddish bibliography.  He has curated exhibitions of rare Hebraica in Ottawa, London and New York, among them a display of early Hebrew printing at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, and most recently on Spinozist writings in Yiddish at the YIVO Institute.  Formerly a member of the Oriental Faculty of the University of Oxford, Hill is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and a Senior Associate of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. 

Once Mr. Hill takes over as curator of the collection, the I. Edward Kiev Judaica Reading Room will resume its normal schedule of being open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.