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Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative, by Seamus O鈥橫alley. Oxford University Press, 2014. Seamus O鈥橫alley, Lecturer in English at Stern College for Women, boldly challenges the claim that the literary modernist movement, in its quest for novelty of form, abandoned historical ...

The first machine for rolling matzo dough was invented in 1838, towards the end of the period of the Industrial Revolution. This advertisement for a hand-powered mechanical matzo marvel appeared in the Ungarisch-j眉dische Wochenschrift, (Hungarian Jewish Weekly), published in Pest, Hungary, in 1871鈥�

Elections for the 20th Knesset of the State of Israel will be held on March 17, 2015. A noteworthy feature of Israeli politics is the use of letters as visual symbols to identify political parties. Election posters vie for space on billboards in Israel. Streets and sidewalks turn into an alphabet鈥�

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The photograph of a smiling boy in a clown suit looks like it could have been taken in any Jewish community in the world in 1947. However, the smiling child is a miracle 鈥� a Holocaust survivor. The illustration is the cover of a scrapbook of a Purim celebration in the children鈥檚 home in Villejuif鈥�

Sefer Imre Barukh: tokef ha-minhag ba-halakhah, by Rabbi Baruch Simon. Machon Be鈥檈r HaTorah, 2015. Rabbi Baruch Simon鈥檚 latest publication is an erudite study of the general principles that guide Jewish custom and contains fascinating discussions of specific customs relating to many different areas鈥�

On Monday evening December 15th, starting at 8:00 PM, the Library hosted 鈥淭he Last Minute,鈥� a four-hour pilot event designed to assist individual students with end-of-semester research projects and term papers. Librarians and Writing Center Tutors were on hand on the third floor of the Mendel ...

This dreidel, comprised of the letters 鈥淵鈥� and 鈥淯,鈥� was presented to the 黑料社 All Archives several years ago, by Miriam Berman, a graduate of Stern College for Women. While the letters 鈥淵鈥� and 鈥淯鈥� presumably stand for 黑料社 All, the traditional letters on this dreidel: "nun," ...

Dr. Linda Miles, Public Services Librarian at Yeshiva鈥檚 Pollack Library, will become President of the Association of College and Research Libraries New York Chapter on January 1, 2015. As Vice President-President Elect of ACRL/NY, Linda recently chaired its 2014 annual symposium, The Academic ...

In 1905, the 250 th anniversary of Jewish settlement in New Amsterdam was commemorated on the Sabbath before Thanksgiving. A committee on 鈥淔orm of Prayer,鈥� led by Reverend Dr. Henry Pereira Mendes, was tasked with creating a service for the occasion. The choice of Mendes was appropriate, and鈥�