COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY BOOK HISTORY COLLOQUIUM: SPRING 2012 All programs are in Room 523, Butler Library, on the Columbia campus. Start time is 6:00 PM. For more information about the Book History Colloquium, please contact Karla Nielsen (kn2300@columbia.edu) April 19, 2012 Emile Schrijver (University of Amsterdam) "Defining a Field: Jewish Books in the Age of Print" […]
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Important upgrades: RAMBI and Bar Ilan Responsa
Ladies and Gentlemen, drumroll please – we have fantastic news about updates from two of the most important resources in Jewish Studies: 1) RAMBI, the Index to Articles in Jewish Studies, profiled here, sent the below email yesterday: "Subject searching in RAMBI, The Index to Articles in Jewish Studies, is being changed so that searching […]
Hebrew mss @ CUL: Columbus at Columbia
The Hebrew manuscripts at Columbia traverse the globe, from India to Germany and France and many places in between. The Americas are also part of this story, as we see in the manuscript depicted here. This manuscript is called ha-India ha-hadasha, basically translated as “The New India.” It is actually a Hebrew translation and abridgment […]
A Fine Romance: Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910 – 1965
Long Island University is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition “A Fine Romance. Jewish Songwriters, American Songs, 1910 – 1965 on Thursday, March 8 from 5:30p – 8:00p in the Hutchins Gallery of the B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library on the LIU/Post campus. This traveling exhibit is further enriched with a display of original movie […]
Hebrew mss @ CUL: The Whole Megillah
In honor of the upcoming holiday of Purim (March 8), here is a Megilat Esther from Columbia's Smith Collection. Professor David Eugene Smith, a professor at Columbia's Teacher's College from 1901-1926, was a scholar in the History of Mathematics who went around the world collecting manuscripts and rare books related to his topic. He spent […]
More Yiddish…Haynt digitized and online
I wrote last year about the incredible resource that is the Historical Jewish Press. In a further effort to make Jewish newspapers available freely online, the HJP has now digitized its first Yiddish paper,Haynt. Haynt was a seminal Jewish newspaper in Eastern Europe from 1908-1939, and is a critical resource for day to day news […]
Hebrew mss @ CUL: Unpublished Plays from the Yiddish Theatre
Columbia’s Yiddish Studies Program is the oldest in the country, beginning in 1952 under the direction of renowned Yiddish scholar Uriel Weinreich. Weinreich’s student, Marvin Herzog was one of the major figures in the creation of the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ), whose archives are held at Columbia. In terms of historic […]
Lecture @ CUL: J.P. Morgan, German-Jewish Bankers, and the Crisis of the First World War
All sessions take place in 523 Butler Library, 6:30– 8:00 p.m. unless otherwise noted. February 28, 2012 (Tuesday) Susie J. Pak Assistant Professor of History St. John’s University J.P. Morgan, German-Jewish Bankers, and the Crisis of the First World War Pak will present a history of how the First World War created a crisis […]
Harvard’s Judaica Library Publications – available freely online!
Libraries tend to be dedicated to open access, devoted to making their collections available to anyone in need of research. With a recent announcement from a Harvard Judaica Librarian, we see that Harvard is definitely on board with this. The Judaica publications that they have digitized include work on Yiddish language and literature, Israel Studies, […]
Hebrew mss @ CUL: Jews and Privileges in Germany
The Hebrew manuscript collection at CUL is quite wide-ranging, covering space from India to the Carribean, and time from the 10th to the 20th centuries. It has particularly strong coverage of the early modern period, with substantial historical materials from Italy and Amsterdam, Greece (Corfu) and France. One obvious lacuna for our collection was the […]