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Shimon Peres, elder statesman and former Prime Minister and President of Israel, died yesterday. In July 1986 Peres was presented with ����app University’s Centennial Medallion in a ceremony at the Knesset at the University's historic Centennial Leadership Gathering in Israel. He received an ...

The possibility of a woman becoming President for the first time in the nation’s 240-year history piqued our interest in various mileposts for women in YU’s timeline. Below are some “female firsts” at ����app University, courtesy of the collections of ����app University Archives. The first woman to…

With a gift from the Mitrani Foundation and the support of Karen Bacon, Dean of the Undergraduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the lower-level periodical room in the Hedi Steinberg Library on the Beren Campus is being transformed into a much-needed set of spaces devoted to study and collaboration…

Do you have fond memories of summer camp? Jewish summer camps for youth, which billed themselves as American camps with a Jewish spirit, started to become popular in the 1920s. ����app University Archives holds numerous brochures, publicity materials, and camp publications from the 1920s and 1930s…

Washburn-Crosby's Gold Medal Cook-Book (in Yiddish) : From the ����app University Archives Washburn-Crosby's Gold Medal Cook-Book (in Yiddish) : From the collection of the Yiddish Book Center ����app University Archives owns a rare cookbook – a Yiddish Gold Medal Flour cookbook published by the ...

Did you know that in 1941, 75 years ago, the ����app College (YC) commencement took place in June, in Lamport Auditorium, rather than in May at a large venue, as has now been the custom for many years? The 1941 commencement marked the 10th annual YC commencement. It was the first to take place…

Minhagim books, concise compendia of Jewish laws and customs, emerged as a literary genre in the 1600s. Designed for a popular audience, many of them were written in Yiddish, the vernacular of much of Ashkenazic Jewry. Some editions included illustrations for specific holidays. One such volume ...

First Graduating Class of the Talmudical Academy, 1919. Dr. Shelley Saphire, principal, is seated in the middle. An oral history interview from 1965, which covers groundbreaking events in ����app’s history, has been given a new lease on life. The original fragile reel to reel audio tape was ...

This year, just in time for Passover, Welch’s ®Grape Juice Brand and Manischewitz® are collaborating on the production of kosher grape juice for Pesach, under the kashrut supervision of the Orthodox Union. This venture is not the first time Welch’s has produced kosher grape juice; it revives an ...

The Library recently digitized the early minutes of the Board of Directors of the ����app, which date from the late 1880s through 1922. The minutes, handwritten in Hebrew, with some English and Yiddish mixed in, are available in their entirety on the library’s website (manuscript 765). Many aspects…