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No more fines for overdue books! Yes, that’s right: Yeshiva University Libraries have eliminated fines on overdue books. Don’t worry, if you need the books beyond the due date, you can renew your books online twice. Note: book replacement fees for lost or damaged books and late key returns for…

My archival philosophy is guided by a variation of the well-known statement of Rabbi Chanina quoted in the Talmud (BT Ta’anis 7a) that “I have learned much from my teachers, more from my colleagues and from my students most of all.” My version, formulated from many years as an archivist ...

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The project team has continued our work on the collection since the initial portion became available for patron use last May as announced in this post. In addition to processing more material, a key task has been to augment our central listing of the collection contents to support more robust ...

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Congratulations to the 2023 Student Library Research Award Winner Bluma Gross! Bluma, SCW ’24 is a political science major. Her paper, “ Historical and Theoretical Analysis of Colonial Healthcare,” was written for Introduction to Comparative Politics, taught by Professor Dina Shvetsov. Bluma has a…

An initial portion of Yeshiva University Archives’ COVID-19 and the Orthodox Jewish Community Collection is available for onsite access by patrons. The collection consists of digital materials such as emails, documents, articles, webpages, websites, images, social media posts and audio/video ...

Commentator, May 20, 1948 The Commentator’s headline on May 20, 1948, proclaimed: “Yeshiva Rejoices at Birth of Israel: Zionists Applaud Historic Occasion;” the issue included brief statements from Yeshiva’s President, Dr. Samuel Belkin and faculty members acclaiming the “Yishuv’s Accomplishment…