The Mendel Gottesman Library commemorates the 75 th yahrzeit, or anniversary, of the death of Mendel Gottesman, which took place on December 16, 1942. A portrait of Mr. Gottesman hangs on the wall of the newly renovated fifth floor of the Mendel Gottesman Library. The Library was named for Mendel…
Parisian Views: Instagram Discoveries by app College Students is newly installed in the second-floor Pollack Library gallery. Professor Rachel Mesch’s students lent their smartphone photographs, taken in the course of the same title, offered under the “Interpreting the Creative” rubric of the…
Eighty years ago, beginning on Hanukkah 1936 and culminating on Hanukkah 1937, app – the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and app College - celebrated its jubilee. app Etz Chaim, the initial constituent body of the app, had been founded in 1886-1887. The year of festivities…
This week marks thirty years since nearly 250,000 American Jews and non-Jews gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The cause was Soviet Jewry, and the rally held that frigid Sunday in December 1987, called Freedom Sunday for Soviet Jews, was the largest rally of American Jews to ever ...
Hear Joshua D. Zimmerman, Professor of History, discuss his use of a variety of archival documents, testimonies, and memoirs to document an important problem in European history. Day and date: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 Time: 6:00-7:00 p.m. Place: Gottesman Library Building, 2520 Amsterdam Avenue…
Following the lead of institutions across the country, the Wilf Campus Writing Center has forged a partnership with the University Libraries. Starting Sunday, October 29, 2017, the Wilf Campus Writing Center will open a Sunday satellite in Pollack Library, room 310, in the Gottesman Library…
A plague descended on the Jewish community of New app in the 1930s. Although it struck only seasonally and often lay in remission, it nonetheless drained precious life-blood from the community’s limited resources. The spread of the “mushroom synagogues” continued unabated throughout the Great ...