Do you have fond memories of summer camp? Jewish summer camps for youth, which billed themselves as American camps with a Jewish spirit, started to become popular in the 1920s.  Yeshiva University Archives holds numerous brochures, publicity materials, and camp publications from the 1920s and 1930s thanks to the pioneering involvement […]

Yeshiva University Archives owns a rare cookbook – a Yiddish Gold Medal Flour cookbook published by the Washburn-Crosby Co. in 1921 – currently celebrating its 95th birthday. The cookbook is probably the first commercially produced Yiddish cookbook for the immigrant American Jewish community by a major American non-Jewish company, and illustrates the growing economic acculturation and […]