As the nation commemorates the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Yeshiva University Archives provides two offerings from its holdings documenting initiatives by or relating to the University from that dark time.

First, we remember with great pride and gratitude the students of Stern College for Women who, for months after the attacks, covered the Shabbat rotation […]

The old adage, don’t judge a book by its cover, fails to consider that the cover itself may tell a story.

Three manuscript fragments were sewn together to create this cover of Sefer Yuhasin by Abraham Zacuto (1452 – ca 1515), a first printed edition (Constantinople, 1566), held in Yeshiva University’s rare book room.  The […]

The holiday of Hanukah, the Festival of Lights, celebrates the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Maccabees after its desecration by King Antiochus Epiphanes and the miracle of a day’s worth of oil burning for eight days. Hanukah in 1946 was only the second time the holiday was celebrated after the devastation and […]

This colorful greeting for Rosh Hashanah, the New Year, was published by the “Defus Even A.L. Monzon” press in Jerusalem in the 1920s. “Defus Even,” stone print, is the Hebrew term for lithography, a specialty of the Monzons. A famed and historic printing house in Jerusalem, the press was founded in 1892 by the brothers […]