Confined to the Lodz ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland, a man named Joseph W. found solace in the songs of his friend, Jankele Herszkowicz, who gained acclaim as the “ghetto troubadour.”
“For everyone who came into the ghetto, he composed a song...
Eight members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have recently been named to endowed professorships by vote of Yale’s Board of Trustees.
They are:
Keith Baker, a particle physicist known for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson...
Three Yale affiliates are among the 36 distinguished scholars and leaders elected to the American Philosophical Society at its April meeting. They are historian David Blight, former Yale College Dean and art historian Mary Miller, and Yale School of...
Scholars collaborating across three continents have deciphered a rare eighteenth-century Japanese manuscript from Yale University Library to reveal a tragic — and likely true — love story between two male samurai warriors.
Historically, same-sex...