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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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“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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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New Acquisitions: Travels of Moise Vita Cafsuto

In 1733, a man from Firenze, in Italy, named Moise (Moses) Vita (Hayyim) Cafsuto (Cassuto) set off on a journey to the Holy Land.  He kept a diary of his travels throughout the Middle East, where he noted interesting sites (specifically Jewish ones, like graves and synagogues) and scenes along his journey.   We recently acquired […]

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