Yeshiva University
The Yeshiva University (also YU is called) a private Jewish university in New York City in the US state of New York . The college was founded in 1886 . There are currently 6,170 students enrolled. In 2011 it was ranked 68th in the Times Higher Education Ranking of universities in the world. "The Rav" Joseph Ber Soloveitchik is one of the former heads of the university .
Faculties
Undergraduate level
- Judaic Studies
- Economics (Sy Syms School of Business)
- Yeshiva College (Undergraduate)
- Stern College for Women (Undergraduate)
- S. Daniel Abraham Israel Program
Graduate level
- Jewish Education and Administration (Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration)
- Jewish Studies (Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies)
- Medicine ( Albert Einstein College of Medicine )
- Psychology (Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology)
- Law (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law)
- Social Work (Wurzweiler School of Social Work)
- Sue Golding Graduate Division
campus
The university's main campus, the Wilf Campus, is located in Washington Heights in northern Manhattan. In 1928 there was a plan to make a generous expansion in the oriental style , including a number of gardens. However , this was destroyed by the global economic crisis in 1929 . The university was later expanded by purchasing neighboring buildings. The university's facilities are now located in Manhattan ( Washington Heights , Murray Hill , Greenwich Village ), the Bronx , Queens and Israel .
Sports
The university's sports teams are the Maccabees . The university is a member of the Skyline Conference .
Personalities
- Professors see category: University professors (Yeshiva University)
- Paul Greengard - Nobel Prize Medicine / Physiology 2000
- Oliver Sacks - neurologist
- Herman Wouk (former) - author
- Berta Scharrer (deceased) - neuroscientist
- Ruth Kisch-Arndt - musician
- Graduates
- Howard Dean - Politician (Democrat)
- Chaim Potok - author
- Josh Saviano - actor
- Baruch Goldstein - officer in the Israeli army, assassin
literature
- Yashkov Ariel: Yeshiva University. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 6: Ta-Z. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-476-02506-7 , pp. 474–476.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/yeshiva-university-2903
- ↑ Times Higher Education.Retrieved May 15, 2011
- ↑ Building Bust, The unbuilt synagogues of the Great Depression . In: Tablet Magazine . August 20, 2009.
Coordinates: 40 ° 51 ′ 1 ″ N , 73 ° 55 ′ 47 ″ W.