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Library Book Talk | Joan Haahr on Prisoners of Memory: A Jewish Family from Nazi Germany

By On February 9, 2022 · Leave a Comment

Hear Professor of English Emerita Joan Gluckauf Haahr discuss her book Prisoners of Memory: A Jewish Family from Nazi Germany with William Stenhouse, Professor in the Robert M. Beren Department of History.

Growing up in a family of Holocaust survivors, Joan Haahr was aware from an early age of the devastation wrought by the Nazis […]

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Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, Z”L

By On June 1, 2020 · Leave a Comment

 

Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm, Yeshiva University’s long-time Rosh Yeshiva, President (1976-2003), and Chancellor (2003- 2013), died on May 31, 2020.

Rabbi Dr. Lamm was born in Brooklyn in 1927, just as the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary was moving uptown from the immigrant neighborhood of the Lower East Side, its home since 1886, to […]

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