Feb 9, 2021 | Cover to Cover
Dates: February 18, March 18, and April 15, 2021 “In an age when everything is never fast enough, the chapbook is a small anchor to the moment; it is a pause to read and relish,” says Kimiko Hahn, poet, professor, and one of the festival organizers. The...
Jan 23, 2021 | Cover to Cover
In 1999, photographer Vincent Giordano made an unplanned visit to the small Kehila Kedosha Janina (KKJ) synagogue on New York’s Lower East Side. He knew little about Judaism or synagogues, and even less about the Romaniote Jewish tradition of which KKJ, built in 1927,...
Oct 18, 2020 | Cover to Cover
On October 6, Norka Blackman-Richards, Director of the Percy E. Sutton Seek Program at Queens College, moderated Fighting for the Future: Political Engagement and Student Leadership, a passionate and intellectually vibrant conversation...
Oct 18, 2020 | Cover to Cover
Victoria Fernandez has been named the library’s first Social Justice and Civil Rights Archive Fellow, funded by the Freda S. and J. Chester Johnson Endowment. She is a Dual Master of History and Library Science (MLS/MA)...
Oct 7, 2020 | Cover to Cover
Did you know that the Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library is home to a collection of over 2000 rare books and manuscripts, the scope of which reflects the history of print culture over the past 600 years? Due to an unfortunate flood in the storage room...
