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Isaiah Wall All-Night Vigil in Ralph Bunche Park, April 2, 1966 On Sunday, October 18th, 2015, at 10:00 AM, at the corner of 187th St. and Cabrini Blvd., a street will be named in memory of Jacob (Yaakov) Birnbaum, founder of the movement to free Soviet Jews. The Kiddush recited on the Sabbath and…

Leah Adler and Shulamith Berger of the Gottesman Library have been recognized for their expertise in Hebraica and Judaica with new titles. Leah Adler is now Head Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica, and Shulamith Berger is Curator of Special Collections and Hebraica/Judaica. Having served as indexer…

Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, rabbi of the Jewish Center on West 86th Street in Manhattan, and professor at ����app College, participated in an international Rosh Hashanah radio program in September 1935. The program, entitled the “Synagogue Council Greeting to the World,” was broadcast on radio station WJZ…

Go directly to the 5th floor to access all library services: Books & Reserve Books Computers & Study Spaces Printing & Copying Research Help (This is just for the next few weeks!) You will arrive on campus this week or next, full of anticipation for the new Fall semester. You will…

Eva London Ritt of Orlando, Florida, has presented her personal collection of materials from the Soviet Jewry movement to the ����app University Archives. Ritt dedicated the collection of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs and artifacts on work to free Soviet Jews during the 1970s and…

On May 25, 1925, a few days before Shavuot, 1200 men and women attended a $1000 a plate dinner celebrating the groundbreaking of the new buildings of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) and the planned ����app College (YC). The Million Dollar Dinner, as it was known, took place in…

Musical celebrations for Yom Ha’Atzma’ut are part of the festivities. Israel boasted an orchestra, the Palestine Symphony Orchestra, even before the State of Israel was born. It was founded by violinist Bronislaw Huberman in 1936, to provide positions for musicians fleeing Nazi ruled Germany and ...

Making History New: Modernism and Historical Narrative, by Seamus O’Malley. Oxford University Press, 2014. Seamus O’Malley, Lecturer in English at Stern College for Women, boldly challenges the claim that the literary modernist movement, in its quest for novelty of form, abandoned historical ...

The first machine for rolling matzo dough was invented in 1838, towards the end of the period of the Industrial Revolution. This advertisement for a hand-powered mechanical matzo marvel appeared in the Ungarisch-jüdische Wochenschrift, (Hungarian Jewish Weekly), published in Pest, Hungary, in 1871…

Elections for the 20th Knesset of the State of Israel will be held on March 17, 2015. A noteworthy feature of Israeli politics is the use of letters as visual symbols to identify political parties. Election posters vie for space on billboards in Israel. Streets and sidewalks turn into an alphabet…