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We are saddened to announce the passing on Shabbat Parashat Balak (June 26, 2010) in Israel of Rabbi Dr. Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger, Professor Emeritus of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University. He was born into an Orthodox family in Budapest on April 7, 1908 but spent his childhood in Transylvania ...

Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue : Essays in Jewish-Christian Relations, by David Berger. Academic Studies Press, 2010. Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue collects many of Professor David Berger's important studies on the subject of Jewish-Christian relations in the medieval and modern periods ...

Jewish Thought in Dialogue: Essays on Thinkers, Theologies, and Moral Theories , by David Shatz. Academic Studies Press, 2009. Prof. Shatz’s new book is a collection of previously published essays which address many different critical areas of interplay between philosophy and Jewish thought, such…

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Nahmanides on Genesis : the Art of Biblical Portraiture, by Michelle J. Levine. Brown University, 2009. Nahmanides on Genesis is a development and expansion of Dr. Michelle Levine's doctoral dissertation. In this volume Dr. Levine ulitizes modern scholarship on literary theory to delve into ...

We are pleased to announce that off campus access to the Otzar HaHochma database of 42,000 traditional Hebrew volumes is once again available through the Library. Click on Otzar HaHochma Online on the Library’s Jewish Studies Databases web page, or, if you are an alumnus, go to the Alumni Services…

Did you know that the Mendel Gottesman Library at Yeshiva University houses several hundred collections with many thousands of original documents in its Archives? If so, did you ever wonder how you could find information about those documents? All this is now easily available to you with the…

The Library schedule for Hedi Steinberg Library has been updated for Purim and Midterms. Click Library hours for service hours.

We are pleased to announce the addition of Roper Public Opinion Archives to the Libraries’ online resources. This includes access to iPOLL, a comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935, and to on-demand datasets via RoperExpress. The resource includes data ...

An Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew : Etymological-Semantic and Idiomatic Equivalents with Supplement on Biblical Aramaic, by Hayim Tawil. KTAV Publishing House, 2009. Prof. Hayim Tawil’s An Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew is the fruit of many years of intensive effort…