Hear Joshua D. Zimmerman, Professor of History, discuss his use of a variety of archival documents, testimonies, and memoirs to document an important problem in European history. Day and date: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 Time: 6:00-7:00 p.m. Place: Gottesman Library Building, 2520 Amsterdam Avenue鈥
Following the lead of institutions across the country, the Wilf Campus Writing Center has forged a partnership with the University Libraries. Starting Sunday, October 29, 2017, the Wilf Campus Writing Center will open a Sunday satellite in Pollack Library, room 310, in the Gottesman Library鈥
A plague descended on the Jewish community of New York in the 1930s. Although it struck only seasonally and often lay in remission, it nonetheless drained precious life-blood from the community鈥檚 limited resources. The spread of the 鈥渕ushroom synagogues鈥 continued unabated throughout the Great ...
Introduction 鈥 Tomorrow, when your child asks you, 鈥榃hat is this?鈥欌 you will answer, 鈥渂ecause of what God did when he took us out of Egypt.鈥 These biblical verses are invoked at the Passover Seder, where children are encouraged to question, adults to respond and discuss; an event where family ...
Renovated 5th floor of Gottesman Library Building featuring curtain wall along Amsterdam Avenue, refinished table tops with integral power, new caster chairs, and improved lighting. In time for the start of the fall 2017 semester, renovation of levels 5 and 5A of the Gottesman Library Building is鈥
Have you ever seen a marriage certificate in Aramaic, English, and German - in several different scripts and typefaces? To mark the holiday of Tu B鈥橝v, the ancient holiday when unmarried women danced in the vineyards hoping to find their mates, it seems fitting to feature a ketubah from Yeshiva ...
YU librarians were a vital presence at the Association of Jewish Libraries annual conference, held at Hebrew Union College in New York in June. Shulamis Hes, Electronic Resources and Reference Librarian, served on the Conference Committee. Shulamith Berger, Curator of Special Collections and ...
Learn about the renovation of the Mendel Gottesman Library of Hebraica-Judaica (levels 5 and 5A) scheduled for this summer. Architects Ran Oron and James Driscoll of ROART will present the schematic design for the project on Monday, May 8, 2017 at noon in the Mendel Gottesman Library Building, 2 nd鈥