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Subject Guide: Holidays

Archival and library highlights found at the Center relating to major national and Jewish holidays

Yom Kippur. Postcard. 1976.130. Yeshiva University Museum.

Artist drawing of men praying at a Yom Kippur prayer service

Library Highlights

A Cultural Yom Kippur Observance / compiled and edited by Joanne Borts. New York: Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring, 2008.

The form of prayers for the Day of Atonement, according to the custom of the German and Polish Jews / with an English translation, carefully revised by Samuel Summer. Vienna: Published by Jos. Schlesinger, I., Seitenstettengasse 5, 1900. [Digitized]

Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One / Mark Kurlansky. New Haven: Yale University Press, c2011.

Ladino hymns for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur / compiled by Rev. David J. Behar. Seattle, WA: Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, 1963.

Maḥzor Lev shalem: for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur / New York, NY: Rabbinical Assembly, 2010.

The Yom Kippur Anthology / Philip Goodman. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1971.

Yom Kippur: Yom Kippur, Its Significance, Laws and Prayers: a Presentation Anthologized from Talmudic and Traditional Sources / overview by Nosson Scherman; laws by Hersh Goldwurm; insights and prayers by Avie Gold. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Mesorah Publications, c1989.

Yom Kippur. 2004.225. Yeshiva University Museum.

Still life oil pointing featuring a skull and a book

Visual Materials & Museum Objects

Wall hanging commemorating Yom Kippur service, Metz, 18702006.12 [Digitized]

Yom Kippur. Oil Painting. 2004.225. [Digitized]

Yom Kippur Al Heyt. Painting. 1992.085. [Digitized]

Yom Kippur services at Great Lakes, Illinois, circa 1942. Photograph. I-337.B10.F016.0207. [Digitized]

Baseball & Yom Kippur

Live From The Archives: Yom Kippur & Hank Greenberg

What does baseball have to do with the High Holidays? And what do Hank Greenberg, Sandy Koufax, and the 1986 New York Mets have in common? Dr. Jeffrey Gurock of Yeshiva University and Melanie Meyers, our Director of Collections of Engagement, discuss baseball, religious observance and more, including the AJHS baseball memorabilia collection.