" Johns Hopkins has been awarded a $500,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities that will provide the Sheridan Libraries an endowment for collections and a librarian to support the university's Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies Program."

"The Stulman Jewish Studies Program was established in 2002 to coordinate the many academic activities at Johns Hopkins dedicated to the study of Jewish history, literature, language, politics and religion. Drawing on faculty from nearly every department in the humanities and social sciences, the program gives students the opportunity to explore more than three millennia of Jewish culture, ranging from biblical to contemporary. The creation of this interdisciplinary program has brought with it a rapid expansion of research and teaching in Jewish studies, an expansion that has in turn placed new demands on the libraries' collections."

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