Jewish Studies Blog

Nicholas Murray Butler’s presidency would usher in a new era for Columbia.  Although the move uptown to the present location in Morningside Heights began under President Seth Low (the campus w...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/jewishstudiesatcul/2024/10/30/jews-at-columbia-the-early-butler-years-and-the-trustee-question-1901-1920/

Save the date!  We eagerly await this year’s Norman E. Alexander Celebration of Collections on December 5, which will feature the Inquisition in Bologna, Jews at Barnard in the late 19th centu...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/jewishstudiesatcul/2024/10/09/norman-e-alexander-celebration-of-collections-2024/

Until now, we’ve only been discussing the men’s institution known as King’s College and then Columbia. We’ll now take brief detour across Broadway to learn about the Jewish connections to...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/jewishstudiesatcul/2024/10/01/jews-at-columbia-annie-nathan-meyer-and-the-college-for-women/

In the first hundred years of Jews at Columbia we already saw how Columbia – as an institution in the middle of a major city (unlike its Ivy-draped peers) – took a bit of a different turn whe...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/jewishstudiesatcul/2024/09/13/jews-at-columbia-the-beginnings-of-jewish-studies-1854-1901/

Many of our posts have dealt with Jewish-related material at Columbia, focusing on the importance of the study of Hebrew to its founder and subsequent 18th century instructors, and even about fin...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/jewishstudiesatcul/2024/08/26/jews-at-columbia-the-first-hundred-years-1754-1854/

Over the course of the last year, many books in the Norman E. Alexander Library have been repaired through the excellent conservation work of Abigail Slawik and other experts whose expertise was ...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/jewishstudiesatcul/2024/04/18/new-exhibit-conservation-what-why-who-how/

Noa Tsaushu is a doctoral student of Yiddish Studies at Columbia University, currently working to complete her dissertation titled “Yiddish Art: The Desire for Cohesion among the Soviet-Yiddish...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/jewishstudiesatcul/2024/02/28/guest-post-noa-tsaushu-on-issachar-rybacks-shtetl-mayn-khorever-heym-a-gedekhenish/

One of the most important primary source resources for modern Jewish history is the Jewish Historical Press (JHP) project, hosted by the National Library of Israel.  The goal of the project is t...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/jewishstudiesatcul/2024/02/21/american-jewish-historical-newspapers-available-and-online/

It is a busy time for the Norman E. Alexander Library for Jewish Studies. In addition to our many classes last fall, and new ones coming up in the Spring, we have also been focusing on important ...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/jewishstudiesatcul/2024/02/05/new-and-newly-processed-collections/

This essay was initially printed in the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies’ 2022 Magazine. The full magazine is available here. The Sephardic Jews and their descendants were very proud of ...

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/jewishstudiesatcul/2024/01/23/from-the-stacksexploring-the-sephardic-world-in-amsterdam/