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Yeshiva University ArchivesStudent Struggle for Soviet JewryBox 9, folder 9 Half a century ago, in 1972, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry (SSSJ) organized “From Potma to Purim Vigil and Fast,” a demonstration on behalf of Sylva Zalmanson and other prisoners of conscience in Potma, a notorious…

A round table of historians and political scientists discussed the unfolding situation in Ukraine. Opening remarks by President Ari Berman. Contributors included Jess Olson, Associate Professor of Jewish History, Revel Graduate School; Joshua Karlip, Herbert S. and Naomi Denenberg Chair of Jewish…

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Gabriel Goldstein has been appointed Interim Director and Chief Curator of the Yeshiva University Museum and began in that role on January 18, 2022. Mr. Goldstein currently consults with the museum as Project Director for the upcoming exhibition Becoming the Rambam: Highlights from The Robert…

Hear Professor of English Emerita Joan Gluckauf Haahr discuss her book Prisoners of Memory: A Jewish Family from Nazi Germany with William Stenhouse, Professor in the Robert M. Beren Department of History. Growing up in a family of Holocaust survivors, Joan Haahr was aware from an early age of the…

Composed by Stephanie Gross, Electronic Reserves and Scholarly Communication Librarian

The Institutional, April 30, 1926 A new, large set of synagogue bulletins has been added to the Libraries’ existing digital collection of historic bulletins from Modern Orthodox synagogues in the New York City area. This new set adds over 1,400 issues to the current collection of bulletins from the…

The exhibit, “Judah David Eisenstein, Encyclopedist par Excellence,” is now on the fourth floor of the Mendel Gottesman Library. J.D. [Judah David] Eisenstein was known as the Ba’al Ha-Otsarot, Master of the treasuries, for his compendia of Jewish law, lore, and literature. Eisenstein was born in…