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Eighty years ago, beginning on Hanukkah 1936 and culminating on Hanukkah 1937, Yeshiva – the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Yeshiva College - celebrated its jubilee. Yeshiva Etz Chaim, the initial constituent body of the Yeshiva, had been founded in 1886-1887. The year of festivities…

This week marks thirty years since nearly 250,000 American Jews and non-Jews gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The cause was Soviet Jewry, and the rally held that frigid Sunday in December 1987, called Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews, was the largest rally of American Jews to ever ...

Innovative Trends in Academic Libraries: A Mini-Symposium

Library Book Talks, 2017-2018

Hear Joshua D. Zimmerman, Professor of History, discuss his use of a variety of archival documents, testimonies, and memoirs to document an important problem in European history. Day and date: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 Time: 6:00-7:00 p.m. Place: Gottesman Library Building, 2520 Amsterdam Avenue…

Following the lead of institutions across the country, the Wilf Campus Writing Center has forged a partnership with the University Libraries. Starting Sunday, October 29, 2017, the Wilf Campus Writing Center will open a Sunday satellite in Pollack Library, room 310, in the Gottesman Library…

A plague descended on the Jewish community of New York in the 1930s. Although it struck only seasonally and often lay in remission, it nonetheless drained precious life-blood from the community’s limited resources. The spread of the “mushroom synagogues” continued unabated throughout the Great ...

Introduction “ Tomorrow, when your child asks you, ‘What is this?’’ you will answer, “because of what God did when he took us out of Egypt.” These biblical verses are invoked at the Passover Seder, where children are encouraged to question, adults to respond and discuss; an event where family ...

Renovated 5th floor of Gottesman Library Building featuring curtain wall along Amsterdam Avenue, refinished table tops with integral power, new caster chairs, and improved lighting. In time for the start of the fall 2017 semester, renovation of levels 5 and 5A of the Gottesman Library Building is…

Have you ever seen a marriage certificate in Aramaic, English, and German - in several different scripts and typefaces? To mark the holiday of Tu B’Av, the ancient holiday when unmarried women danced in the vineyards hoping to find their mates, it seems fitting to feature a ketubah from Yeshiva ...