YU News

Yeshiva University Archives wishes you a Happy and Healthy New Year. Enjoy this sampler of Rosh Hashanah greetings and calendars from the 1920s and 1930s.

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 ...

Your bookmarked links to services provided by the YU Library may no longer be working. Most of our web page addresses are changed in the new Yeshiva University website. Please go to Yeshiva University Libraries to find the desired pages and update your bookmarks.

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…

A Biblical Translation in the Making : the Evolution and Impact of Saadia Gaon’s Tafsir, by Richard C. Steiner. Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, 2010. R. Saadia Gaon (882-942), one of the greatest Jewish sages of the Middle Ages, composed a translation of the Torah into Arabic, which…

 Palaces of Time : Jewish Calendar and Culture in Early Modern Europe, by Elisheva Carlebach. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. In her new book Prof. Elisheva Carlebach focuses on the role manuscript and printed calendars (sifre evronot) played in the life of pre-modern and ...

 Festivals of Faith : Reflections on the Jewish Holidays by Norman Lamm; edited by David Shatz. RIETS Yeshiva University Press & OU Press, 2011. Rabbi Norman Lamm's latest collection of sermons, Festivals of Faith, focuses on different themes of the Jewish holidays throughout the year. Who is…

 Creating Space Between Peshat and Derash : a Collection of Studies on Tanakh by Rabbi Hayyim J. Angel. Ktav, 2011. Rabbi Angel’s new book is a collection of essays dealing with different episodes and events in the Bible, focusing on the clashes between peshat and derash in biblical…

 The Laws and Concepts of Niddah by Rabbi Zvi Sobolofsky. The Michael Scharf Publication Trust of Yeshiva University Press; Maggid Books, 2010. The first installment of the RIETS Practical Halakhah Series, The Laws and Concepts of Niddah based on the lectures of RIETS Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Zvi ...

Next time you’re on the fifth floor of the Mendel Gottesman Library, be sure to stop and look at the painting ‘Talmud Students / " בבית המדרש by Leopold Pilichowski. Pilichowski (1869-1933), a well-known painter of Jewish life, is most famous for his monumental painting of the opening of the Hebrew…