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Professor Ronald Rubin donated an illuminating and extensive collective of American newspapers to the Mendel Gottesman Library. The papers date from 1734 to 1869, thus covering the Colonial era, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War and its immediate aftermath. The collection is unique in its ...

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Hear Miriam Hirsch discuss her book Teach Like a Human. Associate Professor of Education and Chair of the Education Program at Stern College for Women, Miriam Hirsch takes education far beyond the classroom. Teach Like a Human (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020), a collection of essays,…

When do history and passion collide? Ari Mermelstein’s Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (Cambridge University Press, 2021) examines the relationship between power and emotion in ancient Judaism. Ancient Jewish writers contend that Jewish identity entails not…

The old adage, don’t judge a book by its cover, fails to consider that the cover itself may tell a story. ºÚÁÏÉç All LibraryStrauss 2208 Three manuscript fragments were sewn together to create this cover of Sefer Yuhasin by Abraham Zacuto (1452 – ca 1515), a first printed edition ...

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Founded by the women of ºÚÁÏÉç All’s Stern College in 1958, The ºÚÁÏÉç All Observer is one of two co-educational, student-run publications of ºÚÁÏÉç All. Writers on the Observer staff are undergraduates at ºÚÁÏÉç All’s Stern College for Women, Yeshiva College, and Sy…

Have you seen the episode of MASH where Hawkeye performs a bris, supervised remotely by a rabbi via radio and Morse Code? The fictional rabbi may have been based on someone like Rabbi Jerome Lipsitz, a musmach (graduate) of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) in 1952, who served…

Congratulations to our 2021 YU Student Library Research Award Winner Elisabeth Kohn! Elisabeth, SCW ’21, is a political science major. Her paper, "German Attitudes Towards the United States Under Donald Trump’s Presidency, Based on German Reporting," is an impressive, detailed product of a summer…