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Do you have fond memories of summer camp? Jewish summer camps for youth, which billed themselves as American camps with a Jewish spirit, started to become popular in the 1920s. Yeshiva University Archives holds numerous brochures, publicity materials, and camp publications from the 1920s and 1930s…

Washburn-Crosby's Gold Medal Cook-Book (in Yiddish) : From the Yeshiva University Archives Washburn-Crosby's Gold Medal Cook-Book (in Yiddish) : From the collection of the Yiddish Book Center Yeshiva University Archives owns a rare cookbook – a Yiddish Gold Medal Flour cookbook published by the ...

Did you know that in 1941, 75 years ago, the Yeshiva College (YC) commencement took place in June, in Lamport Auditorium, rather than in May at a large venue, as has now been the custom for many years? The 1941 commencement marked the 10th annual YC commencement. It was the first to take place…

Minhagim books, concise compendia of Jewish laws and customs, emerged as a literary genre in the 1600s. Designed for a popular audience, many of them were written in Yiddish, the vernacular of much of Ashkenazic Jewry. Some editions included illustrations for specific holidays. One such volume ...

First Graduating Class of the Talmudical Academy, 1919. Dr. Shelley Saphire, principal, is seated in the middle. An oral history interview from 1965, which covers groundbreaking events in Yeshiva’s history, has been given a new lease on life. The original fragile reel to reel audio tape was ...

This year, just in time for Passover, Welch’s ®Grape Juice Brand and Manischewitz® are collaborating on the production of kosher grape juice for Pesach, under the kashrut supervision of the Orthodox Union. This venture is not the first time Welch’s has produced kosher grape juice; it revives an ...

The Library recently digitized the early minutes of the Board of Directors of the Yeshiva, which date from the late 1880s through 1922. The minutes, handwritten in Hebrew, with some English and Yiddish mixed in, are available in their entirety on the library’s website (manuscript 765). Many aspects…

“… So that each man may speak the language of his people” is a translation of an excerpt of a verse from Megilat Esther [Chapter 1:22]. Minhagim books, concise compendia of Jewish laws and customs, emerged as a literary genre in the 1600s. Designed for a popular audience, many of them were written…

YC pennant Main Building 1956 Yeshiva University Archives recently acquired three new perspectives on Zysman Hall, which shed light on different periods in the building’s life since its cornerstone laying in 1927. Main Building, 1928 A black and white photograph of the edifice, taken for a news ...

With the arrival and operation of a mobile digitization lab to scan archival materials on site, it was hardly business as usual in the Special Collections Office for two weeks this past January. This project was part of the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) Culture in Transit initiative…