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On Tuesday, September 13 at 8:00 PM (EDT) via Zoom, Mitchell First will discuss the prayer “Aleinu” with a focus on two passages and the role of the prayer in the larger context of the liturgy:

Who authored the “Aleinu” prayer? Was its origin the Rosh Hashanah service? When and why did “Aleinu” become part […]

Join us on Tuesday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. (EST) when Nechama Price, Director, GPATS, and Senior Lecturer, Bible & Judaic Studies, Stern College, discusses Tribal Blueprints. The Jewish nation begins with twelve brothers and half-brothers, linked through their father, Jacob. From these close familiar beginnings, each develops into a distinct tribe, with unique characteristics […]

In his ambitious recent book, Marnin Young, Associate Professor of Art History, examines certain artists of the late nineteenth century who rebelled against a triumphant Impressionism by reviving Academic Realism within a shifting cultural and political context.

As the late 1870s and early 1880s ushered in economic and scientific progress, French painting […]

The Menorah: from the Bible to modern Israel, by Steven Fine. Harvard University Press, 2016.

Professor Fine’s new book explores the history of the menorah, both in terms of how it was represented and what it symbolized and continues to symbolize for Jews and others. Dr. Fine traces the religious, cultural and […]

Mordecai Paldiel. Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers during the Holocaust. University of Nebraska/Jewish Publication Society, 2017.

Mordecai Paldiel – Adjunct Professor in Jewish History, Stern College for Women – has created a welcome and vital addition to Holocaust scholarship. Saving One’s Own: Jewish Rescuers during the Holocaust debunks the myth of […]

Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi: Prophecy in an Age of Uncertainty, by Rabbi Hayyim J. Angel. Maggid Books, 2016.

Rabbi Angel’s new book explores the role of prophecy and the transition from prophecy to rabbinic authority during the early years of the Second Temple period. He addresses important issues such as […]

Book Talk with Author Jeffrey S. Gurock
Libby S. Klaperman Professor of Jewish History
At the Seforim Sale
Sunday, February 12, 2017 | 4 p.m. | Weissberg Commons
Belfer Hall, 2495 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10033

The Jews of Harlem : The Rise, Decline […]