Brandeis University

How did Europe’s Jews cope with a 17th-century plague? This 350-year-old memoir offers a glimpse.

Glikl Hamel’s writings, now available in a new English translation, is a rare surviving example of a female-authored memoir from the 1600s.

By Penny Schwartz July 27, 2020 12:14 pm

Brandeis acquires archives of Jewish group that supported Soviet Jews

Project Kesher was established in 1989 to help Jews who chose to remain in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.

October 25, 2019 1:33 pm

Photos of Brandeis students and professors posted on white nationalist website

The university said in a letter addressed to the campus community that it does not believe that there is a threat to campus safety or to the people in the photos.

August 22, 2019 11:40 am

Brandeis president condemns vandalism against Israel Week temporary art installation

By Marcy Oster May 19, 2019 9:51 am

A history of the radical Jewish feminists and the one subject they never talked about

By Penny Schwartz December 7, 2018 1:55 pm

Brandeis fires men’s basketball coach for discriminatory behavior

April 9, 2018 12:20 pm

How to land your first job after college

By Ben Harris February 5, 2018 3:25 pm

Jonathan Sarna, scholar of American Jewish history, to receive rare honor from Brandeis

November 28, 2017 12:07 pm

Brandeis residence hall vandalized with swastikas

September 28, 2017 3:04 pm

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