War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914, by Cynthia Wachtell. Louisiana State University Press, 2010 Long before the twentieth century, the meaning of the battlefield was questioned. Exploring the span of American literature between the Civil War and World War I, Cynthia…
Two new research guides that focus on Jewish Studies were recently published by YU librarians. In “Finding an article for Jewish Studies,” Moshe Schapiro explains how to use the catalog and databases to identify articles on a Jewish Studies topic and how to find the texts of the articles. Zvi…
Opening the Gates of Interpretation: Maimonides’ Biblical Hermeneutics in Light of His Geonic-Andlusian Heritage and Muslim Milieu, by Mordechai Z. Cohen. Brill, 2011. Prof. Mordechai Cohen's study of Maimonides' method of biblical interpretation has at its heart an exacting analysis of each…
Beyond Expulsion : Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg, by Debra Kaplan. Stanford University Press, 2011. This book represents a study of the Jewish influence in Strasbourg in the Middle Ages and the early modern era. All Jews were expelled from Strasbourg in 1390, and were only readmitted…
The marriage of twenty-first century technology, the Israel Museum, Google, and philanthropist George Blumenthal has enabled access to the two thousand year old Dead Sea Scrolls to anyone with an internet connection. Five of the scrolls are currently available at http://dss.collections.imj.org.il…
From Aharon Appelfeld to Natan Zach, Jewish Fiction.Net , the latest addition to YU’s e-journal collections, offers an A to Z of contemporary Jewish writers. Now in its fifth issue, this quarterly is dedicated to Jewish fiction published in the English language. Novel, short story, poem, novella ...
The full texts of תרביץ from 1929 to 2006 and of ציון from 1926 to 2005 are now available online to YU authenticated users, thanks to the Library’s participation in JSTOR’s Hebrew Journals Pilot Project. These journals, along with מגמות and אופקים בגיאוגרפיה , were digitized in a collaboration ...
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Are you a Social Work student just getting started with your research project? Have you been assigned a term paper in psychology or are you interested in exploring the field? Check out the new Research guides recently published by YU librarians. The Guides offer helpful support and receive hundreds…