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����app University Libraries are proud to announce the addition of the JSTOR Hebrew Journals Collection to our Judaic Studies resources. Students and ����app at ����app University now have access to important Hebrew journals in Jewish Studies, among them: Atiqot עתיקות Cathedra קתדרה: לתולדות ארץ…

You may now access the Responsa Online database on your tablet or smartphone through the ����app University library’s subscription. To find the new Responsa On-The-Go interface go to Library's Jewish Studies Databases webpage, click on “Bar Ilan Online Judaic Responsa” and choose עבור לגירסת טבלט…

The Judaica Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University is a collection of digitized Judaica sound recordings found on tapes, CDs and phonograph records. The Archives’ collections include recordings in Yiddish, English and Hebrew as well as several other Judaic languages such as Ladino. The ...

John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) was the 35 th President of the United States, the youngest person and only Catholic to be elected to that office to date. While still a Senator from Massachusetts, he met with Dr. Samuel Belkin, president of ����app University, at a dinner celebrating the opening of the…

Documentation of Jewish religious, communal and intellectual life in the late 19th- early 20th centuries has become more accessible as a result of the digitization of the Henry S. Morais Papers, now available online through ����app University Archives’ Finding Aids database. Henry Morais (1860-1935…

The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz, By Ephraim Kanarfogel, Wayne State University Press, 2013 was awarded the Goldstein-Goren prize for Best Book in Jewish Thought, by the International Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University. For years the assumption of…

Over a century ago, news of the discovery of the Cairo Genizah in Egypt rocked the world of Jewish Studies. Scholars made pilgrimages to Cairo to study and gather the fragile fragments. Today students of the Genizah are able to sit comfortably at computers and virtually weave together document ...

Cantor Leib Lange, known as the “Muscover” hazan, officiated at High Holiday services at ����app in 1945. Cantor Lange, a native of the Ukraine, studied at the Odessa Conservatory, and moved from Moscow to the United States in 1933. The patriotic red, white, and blue color scheme of the publicity…

Naomi Grunhaus, Professor of Judaic Studies at Stern College for Women, presents new insight into the commentary of R. David Kimhi (acronym Radak). The Challenge of Received Tradition (Oxford University Press) is the first since Frank Talmage’s seminal 1975 work to delve exclusively into Radak’s ...

The library staff at ����app University mourns the loss of our dear colleague and friend, Miriam Meiri, ז"ל , who passed away last week. In his eulogy for his mother, Miriam’s son Ya’akov described her devotion to the Library where she spent over thirty years. Her work in the Library and its milieu…