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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…

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Annette Clarke-Jones, MS, MSW, Ph.D. Candidate Adjunct Field Liaison, Wurzweiler School of Social Work Cheryl McKissack Although the construction business is often seen as a male-dominated sector and most definitely not one controlled by African Americans, I was pleasantly delighted to learn that…

By Kimberly Moore, Director Care Café, Wurzweiler School of Social Work Greetings from Care Cafe! Dr. Mildred “Mit” Joyner This week, we spotlight the life and work of Dr. Mildred “Mit” Joyner, DPS, MSW, LCSW, President of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), a Social Work Pioneer ...

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…

By Kimberly Moore, Director Care Café Greetings Everyone! Wurzweiler Care Café welcomes you to join us in celebrating Black History Month this February. As we recognize the lives and contributions of several transformative pioneers in Black History, we are poised to learn about the foundations of…

Care Café hosted a virtual presentation from our “In the Spirit of Wellness” series entitled “Understanding Wholistic Methods to Enhance One’s Quality of Life.” In partnership with the Williams Institutional CME Church and Rivers of Living Water (Faith) Church in Harlem, an audience of over 40 ...

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…

Dr. Shannon R. Lane, associate professor and associate director of dissertation advising for the Ph.D. program at Wurzweiler School of Social Work has co-published an op-ed on January 26, 2022, in The Connecticut Mirror titled “ Limiting hospital visitations during COVID not in patients’ best ...

Dr. Hanni Flaherty, clinical assistant professor in the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, published “ Using Collaborative Group Learning Principles to Foster Community in Online Classrooms” in Journal of Teaching in Social Work (Jan. 25, 2022). Because “online collaborations are dramatically ...