Columbia University Libraries/Information Services (CUL/IS) has received an award of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize field notes and linguistic surveys from the Language and Culture Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry (LCAAJ) archive. The LCAAJ archive is an extraordinary resource for research in Yiddish studies that can shed much valuable light on […]
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Free resources on Hebrew language and Israeli elections
In preparation for the elections in Israel, to be held next week on March 17, I’d like to highlight two new freely available resources. The first, created by the National Library of Israel, relates directly to the upcoming elections. The NLI has created an online portal to the “Election Chronicles,” an online exhibit and information […]
Eight early American Jewish Newspapers, now available digitally!
I am pleased to announce that the following Early American newspapers are now available digitally through the following links. With the exception of the American Israelite and American Hebrew and Jewish Messenger, all newspapers are freely available through the Historical Jewish Press website Columbia is very proud to have been involved, with New York University […]
Recent rare acquisitions in Judaica @ CUL
The past few months have been busy for us, as we’ve acquired a number of new rare books and manuscripts for the Columbia RBML: 1. Divre Rivot – A compilation of various disputes and discussions relating to customs that took place in Mantua in the late 16th and 17th centuries. The wealthy members of the […]
James Kugel will give the Norman E. Alexander lecture on November 19!
We look forward to seeing you there! Details below: […]
New Aquisitions: Rav Milim Dictionary
I am please to announce the acquisition of the premier online Hebrew Dictionary, Rav Milim, now available to the Columbia community. This comprehensive dictionary “includes all strata of the Hebrew language, from the Biblical to current Israeli slang. It also includes linguistic tools that can find and retrieve any of Hebrew’s 70 million inflected forms, […]
“Researchathon” on Jewish book provenance, November 14
We are pleased to announce that there will be a Researchathon at the Studio@Butler focusing on the movement of printed Judaica throughout the centuries. “This researchathon is part of a series for the Center for Jewish History’s Working Group on the Jewish Book. The coordinators will update the group on the progress of our Hebrew […]
New Electronic Resources: Hebrew-language journals and dictionaries
I am very pleased to announce that we have recently purchased some very important electronic collections for Jewish Studies research at Columbia. Two collections of journal archives, including many Hebrew journals in the fields of art, Bible, history, folklore, philosophy, and many other topics, are now available through JSTOR via the Jewish Studies Collection and […]
New Acquisitions: All this has come upon us…
We are very pleased to announce the recent acquisition of a haunting and beautiful portfolio of exhibition prints entitled All this has come upon us…, created by Dr. Mark Podwal. This series of images was created for an exhibition at the Terezin Ghetto Museum from April to July 2014. The series includes images relating to […]
Adventures in the Rare Book Stacks
Hannah Vaitsblit, a Barnard freshman, has been doing cataloging work with the rare printed Judaica collection for the past few months. Only about 1/3 of our rare printed Judaica are accessible in CLIO, but now, thanks largely to Hannah’s painstaking work, many more books have been (and continue to be) added to our online catalog. […]