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The Otzar Hahochma administration is introducing a new version of the Otzar with updated software and enhanced tools and options. In conjunction with this upgrade they are terminating their relationship with the web services provider that enables the Yeshiva University Library to offer the Otzar to…

The Yeshiva University Archives is pleased to announce the inception of the Zoltan Erenyi Memorial Collection of Hungarian Judaica. The collection is named after the late Mr. Zoltan Erenyi, a”h, who was an author and social worker with a long time interest in the study of the Holocaust and in his…

Wireless (laptop) printing service is now offered at the Wilf and Beren campus libraries. Laptop printing operates with the same account system as printing from the Library’s wired PCs and Macs. For installation and printing instructions click on ** Printing from laptops ** on the Library’s main…

Dr. Jacob I. Dienstag, ז"ל, served as the Librarian of Yeshiva University’s Mendel Gottesman Library of Hebraica/Judaica for thirty years, from 1940 to 1970. In a ceremony held recently at the Library, within a few days of his first yahrzeit, the office of the Head Librarian was dedicated in his ...

Yeshiva University Archives has just published guides to the following archival collections from our holdings: * The Gertrude Hirschler Papers, documenting the publishing career of this editor/translator of literary works. * The Irving I. Herzberg Photograph Collection, containing thousands of ...

Two new books written by our own faculty have recently been added to the Mendel Gottesman Library book collection: Ha-Yayin bi-Yeme ha-Benayim – Wine in Ashkenaz in the Middle Ages, by Prof. Haym Soloveitchik. Jerusalem : Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2008. In Hebrew. In the Middle Ages…

Feast your eyes on the latest addition to the library’s digital projects page. A visual treat and a historic artifact, the Memorbuch is an example of the renaissance of the art of manuscript decoration in Central Europe in the 18th century. The Memorbuch was written and illustrated by Binyamin Ze’…