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The 1939 World’s Fair opened in New York with the optimistic theme, “The World of Tomorrow.” The Fair organizers envisioned a future world of 5000 years of tomorrows, earth dwellers of 6939, who would be intrigued by the civilization of their ancestors. The Westinghouse Company took on the challenge of creating a
Yeshiva University Libraries is excited to introduce a new portal for accessing our Digital Collections. This platform enhances the user experience for viewing the Libraries’ rare and unique materials through more robust search and browse functionalities and improved navigation of lengthy textual items. We have also significantly enriched and standardized the descriptive metadata of the […]
Today, it is de rigueur for modern Orthodox student to spend a “gap” year or two studying in yeshivas in Israel after they finish high school, prior to starting their college studies. Ninety years ago, in 1929, two RIETS (Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary) students decided to attend the Knesset Israel (Slabodka) Yeshiva in […]
Tishah B’Av, the ninth day of the month of Av, marks the destruction of the Beit Ha-Mikdash, the Temple in Jerusalem. Over the millennia, Jews have mourned the loss of the Temple in a myriad of ways. One form of memory and memorial is concrete – or in this case fashioned of wood and gold – a model […]
Did you know that even before the moon landing in 1969, Yeshiva had a “moonrock” of its own? In May 1960, Dr. Irvin Rock, chairman of the experimental psychology department of the Graduate School of Education, simulated the moon on the roof of Stern of Stern College. His experiment explained why the moon […]
The Yeshiva University Library mourns the passing of our colleague Leah Adler, who served as Head Librarian of Hebraica and Judaica at the Mendel Gottesman Library for over thirty years. She was a scholar’s librarian who ushered the library into the digital age and who played a key role in the comprehensive renovation of the […]
Israeli stateswoman Golda Meir’s first documented connection with Yeshiva University was in June 1948, only two weeks after the founding of the State of Israel, an event which the students of Yeshiva celebrated and documented in the pages of the Commentator.
A telegram in the Yeshiva University Archives dated June 3, 1948, from Golda Myerson […]
Coffee for Passover: The Maxwell House Haggadah in the American Jewish Home, 1932 and Beyond
Make way for Mrs. Maisel! This year brings a new special edition of the Maxwell House Haggadah, one of the most popular Passover Haggadahs ever published in the United States. The special edition, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Edition, also dubbed […]
Nestled among Yeshiva University’s Special Collections are several shelves of rare works by Walt Whitman, donated to Yeshiva by Charles E. Feinberg. The gift was featured in an article in the New York Times (July 19, 1959, p. 57) where Feinberg was described as “a prosperous Detroit business man who started as a $2.50 […]
“Esther,” the name of the heroine of the Purim story, means hidden. Some of the megillot, the scrolls which tell the story of Esther and Purim, contain hidden blessings. A little known genre of Jewish folk art is the format of the presentation of the blessings recited upon reading the Megillah. Some Megillah scrolls reveal a […]
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