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On Sunday, October 17, 2021, Curator Shulamith Berger represented ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ in a recorded panel discussion on Confronting Anti-Semitism. Participants represented each of the Center for Jewish History partners, and Shuli launched the discussion with a history of the Student Struggle for ...

On February 1, 2020 ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Libraries welcomed Mendel Gottesman Library’s new Head Librarian, Tina Weiss. Tina comes to us from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, where she served as Senior Associate Librarian, as well as Acting Head Librarian. Tina served on…

On August 30, 2021, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ welcomed Pollack Library’s new Public Services and User Experience Librarian, Jay Rosen. Jay comes to us as a recent graduate of Pratt Institute’s School of Information, where he served as a Graduate Assistant in Pratt Libraries’ Public Services department. In…

As the nation commemorates the 20 th anniversary of 9/11, ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓƵ Archives provides two offerings from its holdings documenting initiatives by or relating to the University from that dark time. First, we remember with great pride and gratitude the students of Stern College for Women who…

Professor Ronald Rubin donated an illuminating and extensive collective of American newspapers to the Mendel Gottesman Library. The papers date from 1734 to 1869, thus covering the Colonial era, the Revolutionary War, and the Civil War and its immediate aftermath. The collection is unique in its ...

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Hear Miriam Hirsch discuss her book Teach Like a Human. Associate Professor of Education and Chair of the Education Program at Stern College for Women, Miriam Hirsch takes education far beyond the classroom. Teach Like a Human (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020), a collection of essays,…

When do history and passion collide? Ari Mermelstein’s Power and Emotion in Ancient Judaism: Community and Identity in Formation (Cambridge University Press, 2021) examines the relationship between power and emotion in ancient Judaism. Ancient Jewish writers contend that Jewish identity entails not…