Collection Overview | |
Title: | Nir yearbooks |
Dates: | 1925-1971, with gaps |
Size: | 1.5 Linear feet |
Number of Boxes: | 3 manuscript boxes |
Abstract: | The collection consists of Nir, yearbooks of Yeshiva University's Teachers Institute for Men, a training school for Hebrew teachers, which was succeeded by the University's Erna Michael College of Hebraic Studies. |
Languages: | Materials are primariy in Hebrew,with a small amount in English. |
Call No: | YU.1991.011 |
Finding aid encoded February, 2011
Finding aid encoded in English.
The Teachers Institute for Men was a training school for Hebrew teachers founded in 1917 by the Mizrachi Organization of America. In 1921, it was absorbed by The Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, a parent school of Yeshiva University. In 1966, the school was reorganized as the Erna Michael College of Hebraic Studies, a four-year undergraduate Jewish Studies program of Yeshiva University, which was renamed the Isaac Breuer College of Hebraic Studies in 1982.
The collection consists of yearbooks of Yeshiva University's Teachers Institute for Men, a training school for Hebrew teachers, which was succeeded by the University's Erna Michael College of Hebraic Studies. The yearbook ceased publication in the early 1970s. Several volumes contains graduates from two years.
Yearbook title taken from Jeremiah 4:3.
This collection has been indexed under the following terms:
Organizations:Collection is available to researchers deemed to be qualified by the Archivist.
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