What are the vacant spaces: precise, deliberate incisions reminiscent of a Purim face mask, which gaze up from this manuscript fragment? This remnant of a manuscript page mysteriously made its way from 15th century Spain to the Mendel Gottesman Library’s rare book room in New York. The parchment piece probably originated in pre-Expulsion Spain, either […]

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

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 […]

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 […]