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The Central Relief Committee (CRC) issued a combined Thanksgiving and Chanukah fundraising brochure in 1915. The CRC was founded by the Union of Orthodox Congregations of America on October 14, 1914, three months after the outbreak of the First World War, to provide aid to “Jews in Eastern Europe…

Join us for a talk by Benyamim Tsedeka, director of A-B Center for Samaritan Studies in Holon, Israel, on the history and traditions of the Samaritans. Hear about the traditions of these descendants of the northern tribes of Israel and their connection to manuscripts housed in the library’s Special…

Thursday, December 13, 2018, 7:00 p.m. Gottesman Library, Wilf Campus, room 507. Library Book Talk with Ronnie Perelis, Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies. Identity, family, and community unite three autobiographical texts by New World…

Jewish National Fund manifesto¶¶Ňőapp University ArchivesIsraeli Broadside Collection A century ago, in the fall of 1918, the Jewish National Fund (JNF, Keren Kayemet L’Yisrael), issued a manifesto from its headquarters in The Hague. The organization, founded in 1901, was assessing its mission and…

Welcome back to our campuses—with good wishes to all for a productive year in 5779 from the University Libraries. Watch this Office Hours video, produced by Marketing & Communications and featuring librarians Wendy Kosakoff and Rina Krautwirth. New! Online group study room bookings for Hedi ...

A century ago, Rosh Hashanah in 1918 for Jews in the United States was different than any prior ones during the First World War. Until April 1917, American Jews had only been involved in the war as onlookers who worried about their fellow Jews suffering in the midst of the war in Eastern Europe ...

Camp Machanaim, “the American Camp With Jewish Spirit” for girls and boys was established in 1929 near Monticello, New ¶¶Ňőapp. The name Machanaim was consciously adopted from the biblical verse in Genesis, “And Jacob said when he saw them: `This is God’s camp.’ And he called the name of that place ...

Tu B’Av (15 th day of the month of Av), the ancient holiday when young single women of Jerusalem danced in the vineyards hoping to find their mates, is historically a festive day when thoughts of young men and women turned to marriage. Today, Tu B’Av is a popular time for weddings, which are ...

The New Lamentations = Megilat Ekhah ha-ḥadashah = Di Naye Megilas Ekhah, a small, trilingual booklet in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish by Israel Fine, was published a century ago in 1917 as a fund-raising effort for the Central Relief Committee. Immediately after the outbreak of World War I, urgent…

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