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University Libraries Mini-Symposium

The Mendel Gottesman Library commemorates the 75 th yahrzeit, or anniversary, of the death of Mendel Gottesman, which took place on December 16, 1942. A portrait of Mr. Gottesman hangs on the wall of the newly renovated fifth floor of the Mendel Gottesman Library. The Library was named for Mendel鈥�

Parisian Views: Instagram Discoveries by Yeshiva College Students is newly installed in the second-floor Pollack Library gallery. Professor Rachel Mesch鈥檚 students lent their smartphone photographs, taken in the course of the same title, offered under the 鈥淚nterpreting the Creative鈥� rubric of the鈥�

Eighty years ago, beginning on Hanukkah 1936 and culminating on Hanukkah 1937, Yeshiva 鈥� the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and Yeshiva College - celebrated its jubilee. Yeshiva Etz Chaim, the initial constituent body of the Yeshiva, had been founded in 1886-1887. The year of festivities鈥�

This week marks thirty years since nearly 250,000 American Jews and non-Jews gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The cause was Soviet Jewry, and the rally held that frigid Sunday in December 1987, called Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews, was the largest rally of American Jews to ever ...

Innovative Trends in Academic Libraries: A Mini-Symposium

Library Book Talks, 2017-2018

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 ...