Isaac Edward Kiev

In 1924, Kiev entered the Jewish Institute of Religion under the tutelage of Stephen Wise, and was a bibliographer and cataloger until he was made chief librarian in 1943.^[2] After World War Two, Kiev worked with the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, an organization that distributed heirless Jewish books and artifacts after the Holocaust. He was also president of the Jewish Librarians Association (1951–1959), worked extensively with the Jewish Book Council throughout his career, and served as editor for Library Trends and Studies in Bibliography and Booklore. He also translated the Kafra Haggadah (1949).

• I. Edward Kiev Judaica Collection at George Washington University
• Partial Guide to the I. Edward Kiev Papers at George Washington University