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Meyer London’s matzo bakery’s Jewish almanac for 1930-1931 proudly portrays four generations of men lavishing praise on the sixty year old company’s matzo. At first glance, the ad with the cartoon style sketches of four faces evokes traditional Haggadah illustrations of the four sons of the Seder;…

In this issue: • Re-designed libraries home page • YouTube channel launched • Student library research award • New social media presence Re-Designed Libraries Home Page The newly designed home page for the libraries is ADA-compliant, features current hours, a toolbar on every page, and a tab for ...

Library Book Talk with Art Historian Marnin Young and Painter Mary Creede

In his ambitious recent book, Marnin Young, Associate Professor of Art History, examines certain artists of the late nineteenth century who rebelled against a triumphant Impressionism by reviving Academic Realism within a shifting cultural and political context. As the late 1870s and early 1880s ...

The Book of Esther, the Purim Megilah, describes many forms of communication: dialogues, conversations, commands, pleas, reading aloud, eavesdropping, letters and decrees sent by messenger, among others. Perhaps based on this theme, the Jewish Welfare Board (J.W.B.) issued a Purim postcard during…

February 2018 marks the centennial of The Jewish Forum, a monthly magazine founded in February 1918 by Dr. Solomon T. H. [Theodor Ha-Levy] Hurwitz. The Jewish Forum served as the voice of the emerging modern Orthodox, English speaking Jewish community in New York and beyond. A column in the…

Library Book Talk with Professor Mordechai Cohen

University Libraries Mini-Symposium

The Mendel Gottesman Library commemorates the 75 th yahrzeit, or anniversary, of the death of Mendel Gottesman, which took place on December 16, 1942. A portrait of Mr. Gottesman hangs on the wall of the newly renovated fifth floor of the Mendel Gottesman Library. The Library was named for Mendel…

Parisian Views: Instagram Discoveries by Yeshiva College Students is newly installed in the second-floor Pollack Library gallery. Professor Rachel Mesch’s students lent their smartphone photographs, taken in the course of the same title, offered under the “Interpreting the Creative” rubric of the…