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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 Yeshiva 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 Yeshiva 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…

Shi’ure Yesamah Av, by Eli Baruch Shulman. Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press, 2013. Shi’ure Yesamah Av on the Talmudic chapters Keitsad Mevarkhin, Kol Sha'ah and Arvei Pesahim is a collection of insights and essays by Yeshiva University’s Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Eliahu ...

The Polish parliament recently re-affirmed a bill banning kosher slaughter (shehitah). The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Michael Schudrich, has said he will resign if shehitah is not legalized in Poland. This is not the only time ritual slaughter has been under attack in Poland. In February 1936, a bill…

Index of References Dealing with Talmudic Literature, colloquially known as The Lieberman CD, is now available via the Internet. The Index, developed by the Saul Lieberman Institute of Talmudic Research at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, includes the Mishna, Tosefta, Jerusalem Talmud…

Nathan Birnbaum and Jewish Modernity : Architect of Zionism, Yiddishism, and Orthodoxy, by Jess Olson. Stanford University Press, 2013. In this volume, Dr. Jess Olson, Associate Professor of Jewish history at Yeshiva University, presents us with a study of Dr. Nathan Birnbaum’s involvement in ...

This year, the holiday of Shavuot falls adjacent to Mother’s Day, a fitting tribute to Naomi and Ruth, matriarchs of the lineage of King David. A century ago, in the United States, Jewish educators emphasized the connection of mothers and children in the cycle of Jewish continuity. The Bureau of ...

The Bibliography of the Hebrew Book is a bibliography of all types of Jewish literature published in Hebrew characters, including different Jewish languages such as Hebrew, Yiddish and Ladino. During the last 400 years individual scholars compiled bibliographies of Hebrew and Jewish literature. In…