Dear Safranim: I am pleased to announce the publication of "My Yeshiva College: 75 Years of Memories," a collection of essays that I have recently co-edited celebrating the past seventy-years of Yeshiva College, written from the perspective of former students and faculty members-many of whom still teach at and are involved with Yeshiva today. The book is an important contribution to the literature about Judaism in the 20th century and gives a real feel for how Yeshiva College has impacted its students and the broader American community.
The volume follows the course of Yeshiva College's history, beginning with the nascent years under founder and first president Rabbi Dr. Bernard Revel, into the years of rapid growth under Rabbi Dr. Samuel Belkin, and into the last two and half decades of leadership under Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm. "My Yeshiva College: 75 Years of Memories" includes autobiographical memoirs by some of Yeshiva College's most prominent graduates and faculty members, including Ruth A. Bevan, Michael J. Broyde, Hillel Furstenberg, Irving Greenberg, Lawrence Grossman, Joan G. Haahr, Nathaniel Helfgot, Jerry Hochbaum, Nathan Kamenetsky, Barry J. Konovitch, Eugene Korn, Norman Lamm, B. Barry Levy, Aharon Lichtenstein, Moses Mescheloff, Yehudah Mirsky, Emanuel Rackman, Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff, Marvin Schick, Alvin Schiff, Abraham D. Sofaer, Fred Sommers, Chaim I. Waxman, Leon Wildes, Efraim Zuroff and dozens of others! The book includes an introduction by President Richard Joel of Yeshiva University, an afterword Dr. Jonathan Sarna of Brandeis University and appendix by Dr. Chaim Waxman of Rutgers University. The back cover includes a never-before-published passage from Mr. Herman Wouk, Pulitzer Prize winner and a professor at Yeshiva College during the mid-1950s. The publisher advises that the books can be bought from local bookstores, Baker & Taylor, and YasharBooks.com (ISBN 1-933143-12-6). Menachem Butler, (Yeshiva College '06) President, Student Organization of Yeshiva (SOY), Yeshiva University Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
