Every October, when the Nobel Prize in Literature is announced, readers unfamiliar with the laureate’s work often wonder whether they would enjoy the author’s writings, and which book to start with. This blog introduces readers to this year’s laureate, Hungarian novelist and screenwriter László Krasznahorkai, whose books and films are well represented in the Woodruff Read More …
so we settled on America, one by one we settled on America, man and woman Joshua Gottlieb-Miller, Chain Migration (excerpt) History of the Jewish American Heritage Month This year we celebrate Jewish American Heritage Month for the 20th time in the US. Following President George W. Bush’s proclamation designating May 2006 as Jewish American Read More …
Whereas the regulation of how food is grown, sourced, prepared, and consumed has formed Judaism’s core and longest evolving set of rules, Jewish cookbooks—that is collections of recipes including the author’s personal food memories and/or information related to the history or the cultural and religious significance of the listed dishes, or, in general, cooking, housekeeping, Read More …
Woodruff Library invites all members of the Emory community to take a Nowruz-themed quiz. This is an opportunity to showcase your knowledge and to learn about the Persian New Year, celebrated from the Balkans, through the Caucasus, to Central Asia. To enter the prize drawing, simply answer the quiz questions correctly between March 20 and Read More …
Dear Emory undergraduate students, It is our pleasure to invite your applications for the Elizabeth Long Atwood Award. This award celebrates undergraduate researchers with outstanding library research skills, scholarly vigor, creativity, and sophistication. Emory Libraries sponsors four $1,000 prizes for original research papers, digital projects, or posters. A panel of judges composed of faculty members Read More …
The database PressReader was launched in 1999 as an overnight print-on-demand service to hotels wishing to provide global news to their guests. That year was memorable for other things, too, for example, the airing of the last season of the television show “Early Edition.” In each episode, for an inexplicable reason, the following day’s edition Read More …
In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (now known as International Holocaust Remembrance Day). Sixty years earlier, on that day in 1945, Soviet troops entered the Auschwitz concentration camp and began to organize assistance for the survivors whom the Read More …
Emory Libraries is one of the ten institutions in the world to hold the full run of the Jewish magazine Pee-pee-fox, also known as Pipifoḳs (transliteration) and in Hebrew script פיפיפאקס—according to Worldcat.org. At the beginning of 2024, the acquisition of this periodical was made possible through Emory Libraries’ Davis III Humor Endowment. As of Read More …
At the beginning of May 2024, when we installed the exhibition “From Right to Left: Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian Study Resources at Woodruff Library” on level 2 of Woodruff Library, we did not foresee that this space would become a classroom just in a few months. Next to classroom 215, on the righthand side of Read More …
As we mark Jewish American Heritage Month in May, we reflect on the path to this recognition. The histories of Jews and the Americas have intertwined since 1492. On July 31 of that year, Spain expelled its non-Catholic subjects, and three days later Columbus departed on the voyage leading to the European “discovery” of the Western Read More …
The breeze of Nowruz is blowing from the land of the beloved Ask this wind to help delight your heart Hafiz, poem 454 of the Divan They were to observe them as days of feasting and merrymaking, and as an occasion for sending gifts to one another and presents to the poor. Book of Esther Read More …
Dear Emory undergraduate students, Emory Libraries invites your applications for the Elizabeth Long Atwood Undergraduate Research Award. Four $1,000 prizes will be granted for original papers, digital projects, or posters exhibiting outstanding library research skills, scholarly vigor, and originality. You are eligible to apply if: You are a currently enrolled undergraduate student at Emory College Read More …
