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JEWISH BOOK ANNUAL
the major developments to have taken place in the years since
the merger.
While the Library has grown considerably to some 130,000
volumes since its founding , it has con tinued to build upon the
heritage o f those who served the JIR . These men were an in
tegral pa r t o f the train ing o f a generation o f liberal rabbis who
served innum erab le communities in the United States and
a round the world as chaplains du r ing World War II. T h e d i
rection which they set by the ir acquisitions has allowed the Li
brary to continue to grow physically and add to the fields they
established early on as its strengths. Still in use for some o f
the o lder materials is the catalog tha t Rabbi Kiev developed.
The founda tion established before the m erge r gave the Library
an adm irable heritage upon which to build for its fu tu re .