Month: August 2019
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Back to School
Written by Donna Brandolisio Heading off to college? You might want to take a peek at this once helpful guide for women published in Philadelphia by the John C. Winston Company in 1949. Off to College by Suzanne Gould Emerson provided young women with helpful advice. “In this indispensable guide book she tells you how…
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CAJS Rare Ms 484 – The Tiḳun Ḥatsot of Casale Monferrato
CAJS Rare Ms 484 is part of the Moldovan Family Judaica Collection at Penn Libraries and was gifted to the library in 2018. There is a custom for Jews to pray at midnight remembering the Temple in Jerusalem; the specific ritual prayer is called Tiḳun Ḥatsot. Tiḳun means “a fixing” literally, while in this context…
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Can You Guess What This Soviet Poster Is Trying To Tell You?
Early Soviet posters aimed to end the Old Regime in every way, and that included religion. The poster above is a part of the collection of 48 Soviet propaganda posters from the 1920s and 1930s. This fascinating collection includes anti-religious and anti-capitalist messages, as well as instructional posters on the new ways of Soviet childcare…
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Blue Skies to Red Seas
[Ed. note: Today’s post is by Penn Libraries intern Akasya Benge. Many thanks to Akasya for her painstaking work in inventorying recently acquired Japanese Naval Collection magazines (Kaigun, Kaigun Gurafu, Umi to Sora, and Teikoku Kaigun) and reflecting on what she found within. Come check the magazines out for yourself in Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center!]…