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Lubetski Presents Paper at World Congress of Jewish Studies

By On November 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Professor Edith Lubetski, head librarian of Stern College for Women‘s Hedi Steinberg Library, delivered a paper at the 16th World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem on August 1. The paper was titled “Database Searching for Biblical Studies.”

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Shawn Collaborates with Researchers at Gathering of Oral Historians

By On August 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Karen Shawn, visiting associate professor of Jewish education at Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, presented and participated in a morning-long session focusing on research about the oral testimonies of child Holocaust survivors during the World Congress of Jewish Studies on August 1. The session was sponsored by the Oral […]

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Shires Publishes Essays on Color Theory, Thomas Hardy

By On August 27, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Dr. Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor and Chair of the English Department at Stern College for Women, has recently had essays on color theory and on Thomas Hardy accepted for publication.

“Color Theory–Charles Lock Eastlake’s 1840 Translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Zur Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours),” published in BRANCH: Britain, […]

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Brander Visits with Australian Jewish Community Institutions

By On August 26, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Rabbi Kenneth Brander, Vice President for University and Communal Life at Yeshiva University, spent close to three weeks visiting Australian Jewish community institutions in Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, delivering inspirational talks and meeting with communal leaders to strengthen ties between Australia and YU, better understand the needs of Orthodox communities in Australia, and find new ways […]

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Three-Volume Work Co-Edited by Mareleyn Schneider Available as Institutional Set

By On August 19, 2013 · Leave a Comment

A three-volume set of books co-edited by Dr. Mareleyn Schneider, associate professor of sociology at Yeshiva University, has been made available as an institutional set.

Titled “Jews: A People’s History of the Lower East Side” (Clayton Books LLC),  the 1,349-page set addresses the social history of Judaism in the neighborhood and follows it into modern […]

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