David B Levy [PhD 2000, MLS 1995 ] became a researcher, librarian, writer, lecturer on youtube. There are listed over 50 publications in the National Library of Israel library catalog by David B. Levy^[1].

David graduated from Gilman high school magna cum laude where David received “the love of learning prize” justified apres la letter in the alumni post about David.^[2].

David’s worked in a variety of libraries:

1. Public: Enoch Pratt where David authored an bibliography of its Yiddish and Hebrew holdings that was acknowledged as a resource for cataloging at the Amherst Yiddish book Center by Naomi Glick:

2. At Pratt David fielded all reference questions and selected books in religion, philosophy, languages, and other areas as noted by Head of the Humanities Department Bob Burke:

3. While working at Pratt and earning a PhD David published articles including one in Drobitsky Yar Kharkov noted below:

4. While working at Pratt David helped patrons and organizations. David's assistance was noted in many letters, including one from Beth El Congregation:

While David’s dissertation related to Suffering, Catastrophe, Evil in Jewish History: The moral and ethical implications of rabbinic theodicy David was made to more narrowly focus when writing and defending his dissertation. David was in the graduate program at the BHU which like Spertus institute of Jewish Studies, Cleveland College of Jewish Studies, Boston Hebrew College, Gratz College, which emphasized in their foundation classes taught in Hebrew and the option of taking exams in Hebrew, thereby attracting many Israeli students.

While working at the Enoch Pratt public library David earned a PhD in Jewish Studies and was a recipient of the Gedaliah and Rosa Cohen prize and Sidney Breitbart prizes while serving as a driver for Kosher Meals on Wheels out of Sinai Hospital. One of David’s teachers (Rabbi Dr. Joseph Baumgarten) bellow notes “David is among the most distinguished students we have ever had at the University. His work in biblical literature and philosophy is characterized by thorough research, facility with foreign languages including German, French, Latin, ancient Greek, and Hebrew, and a breadth of interest which one rarely finds among contemporary students.”

Dr A. Udoff also wrote, “In the whole of my teaching experience I have never encountered anyone with David’s reverential love of books and devotion to study. This profound feeling for literature takes the form of a remarkably generous culture of interests. Virtually the whole of the liberal arts and Jewish traditions is represented in these interests- traditions that Dr. Levy knows intimately and in many instances in the original languages of their composition.”

While a graduate student, David gave papers at venues such as Association of Jewish studies, Association of Jewish libraries (AJS), and American Philosophical Association, as noted by the letter from AJS below:

While David served 10 years in the public library, he was also sought out by University Professors for graduate research testified by this letter from a Professor of the history of medicine at Boston University below:

After serving two years at Ner Israel Henry Beren library, David left Baltimore by accepting the head Judaica library position at Touro College and subsequently worked as Head Librarian of Lander College for Women. CEO Dr A. Kadish thanked David for his assistance on research:

David authored an article on reference work^[3] and, while serving as head librarian, he published in a wide variety of peer reviewed journals, book reviews, and about 50 books.

A tincture of David’s publications on the Touro site are listed on (1) faculty publications Touro University Libraries ^[4] and (2) Touro scholar ^[5] and (3) library blogs ^[6] more extensively listed in 98 page bibliography of publications at linkedin ^[7].

A large scope across many interdisciplinary academic fields such as (a) classics, (b) philosophy, (c) musicology, (d) sociology, (e ) jewish studies, (f) Education, (g) library science, (h) folklore, (i) film studies, (j) history, (k) history of science, (l) comparative religion, as noted by the diversity of academic journals David published in including but not limited to project Muse’s enumeration: (1) Classical World, (2) Techne: Research in Philosophy, (3) The Review of Higher Education, (4) La Revue canadienne des sciences de l’information et de bibliothéconomie , (5) Portal: Journal of Libraries and Archival Science, (6) The library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society,, (7) The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, (8) Journal of Jewish Identities, (9) Jewish Film and New Media, (10) Film and History, (11) Revue canadienne d'études cinématographiques, (12) Shofar, (13) The Journal of the history of medicine and the Allied Sciences,(14) Magic-Ritual-and Witchcraft, (15) Journal of History (formerly the Canadian Journal of history), (16) Information and Culture: a Journal of History, Configurations, (17)( Notes (a journal of the Musicology pubished by Harvard University), (18) Journal of Religion and Culture, (19) H-Judaic. See Project Muse for more details^[8].

David’s interests indeed are the whole gamut of humanities. And within the discipline of Jewish studies, David cast a wide net as demonstrated by his 2 volumes set Some Early writings Biblical Exegesis, Jewish Philosophy, Jewish History, Hebrew Linguistics, Rabbinics, and Jewish Literature, among others.

While at BHU David also while working full time took courses in an exchange program with BHU and Johns Hopkins in the both the Ancient Near Eastern Studies Department and German studied Department with emphasis on German Jewish thought. While at JHU David also loved to sit in on Philosophy of Science courses (see David’s book noted by the Philosophy documentation center as a positive contribution, Essays in the History and Philosophy of Science) although David’s knowledge in this the history of science is primarily autodidactic and learned from his father’s love and interest in the field of history of science. In fact David’s book on History of Science was written piecemeal while visiting David’s father in Baltimore and listening to David’s father’s vast knowledge of the subject and drawing on David’s fathers thousands of books in this academic field. In fact in 2017 David edited a five volume set of his father (Zl) in the area of history of medicine and science.

David was also able to publish an article in the prestigious, peer reviewed journal Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences^[9].

In recent years, David authored several books, including an exploration of Jewish mysticism and a compilation of essays detailing the history of philosophy.

Additionally, David completed several interviews, including one conducted by Heidi Rabinowitz wherein David discussed Jewish geneology. ^[10]

As one can see from the chronological summary of David’s career in librarianship and publishing, David’s early references written on his behalf at the pratt library became a clarion fulfilling prophecy for accomplishments in the field of librarianship ^[11][12].

2) Link/citation for Youtube ch (included int he Gillman citation).

Bibliography of David B. Levy