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This woodcut is from a Yiddish Minhagim book (book of customs) published in Amsterdam in 1723 by Herts Levi Rofe. It depicts prayers in the synagogue on the fast of Tish’ah be-Av (9 th day of Av), the day of mourning for the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. Note the flames…

The Tragedy of a Generation : the Rise and Fall of Jewish Nationalism in Eastern Europe, by Joshua M. Karlip. Harvard University Press, 2013. This book explores a serious attempt at an alternate, non-religious expression of Jewish identity that took place in the last 150 years. Today the chief…

May 1958 was a month of “firsts” at four-year-old Stern College. The inaugural issue of the First Step, the College’s fledgling journalistic endeavor, was published. The paper reported on Stern’s first graduating class of twenty-six students, Eleanor Roosevelt’s “Stern College Month” fireside chat…

Dr. Jacob Birnbaum passed away on April 9, 2014, after this was posted. May his family be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. המקום ינחם אותם בתוך שאר אבלי ציון וירושלים On Passover, Jews celebrate the Exodus from slavery in Egypt. May 1, 2014 marks the 50th anniversary of the birth…

Have you ever looked for items in the Library catalog, only to find that one was “available” in Pollack, the next was “in Library use” in the Rare Book Room, the third was “non-circulating” in Gottesman Reference, and the last was “on reserve” in Stern? “Now what,” you asked yourself, “how am I…

Mordechai’s ceremonial ride in regal regalia on a royal horse through the town of Shushan, heralded by Haman at the command of King Ahashverosh, marks a turning point in the story of Purim. The scribe Binyamin Ze’ev (Wolff Jacob) ben Elyakum Getsel Kats of Kempen, depicted the scene in a manuscript…

The YU Libraries have just launched an upgraded version of the YULIS catalog. With its new look and its enhanced functionality, YULIS now more closely resembles web search engines that are familiar to you from your online activities such as shopping and, of course, using the ubiquitous Google. The…

Yeshiva University Libraries are proud to announce the addition of the JSTOR Hebrew Journals Collection to our Judaic Studies resources. Students and faculty at Yeshiva University now have access to important Hebrew journals in Jewish Studies, among them: Atiqot עתיקות Cathedra קתדרה: לתולדות ארץ…

You may now access the Responsa Online database on your tablet or smartphone through the Yeshiva University library’s subscription. To find the new Responsa On-The-Go interface go to Library's Jewish Studies Databases webpage, click on “Bar Ilan Online Judaic Responsa” and choose עבור לגירסת טבלט…

The Judaica Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University is a collection of digitized Judaica sound recordings found on tapes, CDs and phonograph records. The Archives’ collections include recordings in Yiddish, English and Hebrew as well as several other Judaic languages such as Ladino. The ...