"Yemenite Queen Esther"app University Archives, Schussheim Family Album This photograph of the “Yemenite Queen Esther” in the Tel Aviv Purim parade in 1929 is from the Schussheim Family photo album, a pictorial record of the family’s travels in Palestine in 1929. No mere run of the mill…
NEW DATE On Tuesday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. (EST), Joanne Jacobson, Professor Emerita of English and Former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, app College, will discuss her book, Every Last Breath. When Jacobson’s writing about her mother’s respiratory illness was interrupted by her own ...
Join us on Tuesday, February 23 at 7:30 p.m. (EST) when Nechama Price, Director, GPATS, and Senior Lecturer, Bible & Judaic Studies, Stern College, discusses Tribal Blueprints. The Jewish nation begins with twelve brothers and half-brothers, linked through their father, Jacob. From these close…
On Tuesday, February 9, at 7:30 pm ET, Marcelo Broitman, Adjunct Professor of Spanish, will discuss Francisco Sánchez y el redescubrimiento de la duda en el Renacimiento. Tracing philosophical skepticism from its origins in Ancient Greece until its recovery in the Renaissance, his book focuses on…
Join us on Monday, January 25, 2021 at 7:30 p.m. and hear Joanne Jacobson, Professor Emerita of English and Former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, app College, discuss her book, Every Last Breath. When Jacobson's writing about her mother’s respiratory illness was interrupted by her own ...
Rescue Children, Inc. home in Schirmeck,Hanukah, 1946app University Archives The holiday of Hanukah, the Festival of Lights, celebrates the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Maccabees after its desecration by King Antiochus Epiphanes and the miracle of a day’s worth of oil burning…
app University Archives,Central Relief Committee Collection, 26/4 The Central Relief Committee (CRC) issued a Thanksgiving appeal for Jewish War Sufferers in 1916, one example of the CRC’s fundraising efforts in its many years of work on behalf of Jews trapped between the warring sides during…