Paula Hyman, a leading historian of modern French Jewry and an internationally recognized authority on the history of Jewish women, died on Dec. 15 after a long illness.Paula HymanA funeral will be held Dec. 16 at 11:30 a.m. at Congregation Beth El-Keser...
There will be a memorial service on Friday, Nov. 11, for John Morton Blum, a renowned historian of 20th-century American political history and a pivotal figure on the Yale campus during the social unrest of the late 1960s. Blum died on Oct. 17 in North...
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University has acquired Eugene O’Neill’s “lost” one-act play, “Exorcism” (1919). A studio portrait of Eugene O’Neill inscribed to his eldest son, Eugene, O’Neill, Jr., 1927The play, along with a...
The pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas (1858-1942), who refuted the basic principles of racist ideology in a book once described as the “Magna Carta of race equality,” will be the subject of a symposium at Yale, Sept. 15-17.“Indigenous Visions:...