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Jewish National Fund manifestoYeshiva University ArchivesIsraeli Broadside Collection A century ago, in the fall of 1918, the Jewish National Fund (JNF, Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael), issued a manifesto from its headquarters in The Hague. The organization, founded in 1901, was assessing its mission and…

Welcome back to our campuses—with good wishes to all for a productive year in 5779 from the University Libraries. Watch this Office Hours video, produced by Marketing & Communications and featuring librarians Wendy Kosakoff and Rina Krautwirth. New! Online group study room bookings for Hedi ...

A century ago, Rosh Hashanah in 1918 for Jews in the United States was different than any prior ones during the First World War. Until April 1917, American Jews had only been involved in the war as onlookers who worried about their fellow Jews suffering in the midst of the war in Eastern Europe ...

Camp Machanaim, “the American Camp With Jewish Spirit” for girls and boys was established in 1929 near Monticello, New York. The name Machanaim was consciously adopted from the biblical verse in Genesis, “And Jacob said when he saw them: `This is God’s camp.’ And he called the name of that place ...

Tu B’Av (15 th day of the month of Av), the ancient holiday when young single women of Jerusalem danced in the vineyards hoping to find their mates, is historically a festive day when thoughts of young men and women turned to marriage. Today, Tu B’Av is a popular time for weddings, which are ...

The New Lamentations = Megilat Ekhah ha-ḥadashah = Di Naye Megilas Ekhah, a small, trilingual booklet in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish by Israel Fine, was published a century ago in 1917 as a fund-raising effort for the Central Relief Committee. Immediately after the outbreak of World War I, urgent…

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Online Database Features Publications, Research and Creative Works by Faculty, Students and Staff The Yeshiva University Libraries recently launched YAIR: the Yeshiva Academic Institutional Repository. Inspired by the open-access movement, institutional repositories showcase all manner of scholarly…

On May 9, 1958, Mayor Robert F. Wagner proclaimed “Stern College Month,” a month of celebration in honor of the first commencement of Stern College for Women. Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Max Stern, Shirley Pasternak The announcement inaugurated a month-long series of events leading up to commencement…

Robert F. Kennedy and Samuel Belkin June 6 marks the 50th anniversary of the tragic, violent, death of Robert F. Kennedy, at the hands of assassin Sirhan Sirhan, who shot Kennedy on June 5, 1968. Kennedy, a New York State Senator at the time of the shooting, was murdered while campaigning for the…