Archive for January, 2009
Attention All YU Faculty and Students!
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009New books from our faculty
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009Two new books written by our own faculty have recently been added to the Mendel Gottesman Library book collection: Ha-Yayin bi-Yeme ha-Benayim – Wine in Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages, by Prof. Haym Soloveitchik. Jerusalem : Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2008. In Hebrew. In the Middle Ages, wine played a much greater role [...]
Auras
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009Feast your eyes on the latest addition to the library’s digital projects page. A visual treat and a historic artifact, the Memorbuch is an example of the renaissance of the art of manuscript decoration in Central Europe in the 18th century. The Memorbuch was written and illustrated by Binyamin Ze’ev (Wolff Jacob) of Kempen in [...]