1927 groundbreaking ceremony for Yeshiva College. Left to right: Morris Asinoff, Samuel Kamlet, Meyer Vessel, Nathan Roggen, Louis Roggen, Fabian.
1927 cornerstone-laying ceremony for Yeshiva University’s original main building, Joseph and Faye Tannebaum Hall, in Washington Heights.
Bidding farewell in 1929 to the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary on 301 East Broadway on the Lower East Side, rabbis transfer sifrei Torah (scrolls) to today’s Wilf Campus site. First Row: holding Torah scrolls, left to right: Rabbi Moses S. Margolies; center, first row: Dr. Bernard Revel, Harry Fischel; holding Torah scrolls, to the right on lower two steps: Rabbi Sholom Rackovsky, Rabbi Benjamin Aronowitz, Rabbi Jehudah Weil, Rabbi Samuel Gerstenfeld, Rabbi Ephraim M. Steinberg, Rabbi Chaim Shunfenthal, Rabbi Moses Aaron Poleyeff.
Yeshiva College celebrates its first graduating class in 1932. Top row, from left to right: Max Hoch, Harry A. Steinberg, Joseph Kaminetsky, Hugo Mantel, Max Hirschman, Julius Washer, Joe Lief, David Golovensky, Chaim Golden; front row, left to right: Eli Levine, Joshua Matz, Louis Izenstein, Louis Engelberg, Hyman Muss, Dr. Shelley R. Saphire (Dean), Dr. Bernard Revel (President), Israel Upbing, Alex W. Nissenbaum, Morris S. Penkower, Mendel H. Lewittes, Jacob I. Hartstein.
YU President Bernard Revel confers honorary doctorate in 1935 upon Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, namesake of YU’s law school established in 1976.
Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt receives an honorary doctorate in 1952 from YU President Samuel Belkin
In 1953, Albert Einstein views a model of YU’s medical school, which bears his name and is located on Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus in the Bronx. Left to right: Max J. Etra, Dr. Samuel Belkin, Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Dr. Marcus D. Kogel, and Max Stern.
In 1953, former governor of Illinois and Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson receives an honorary doctorate from YU President Samuel Belkin.
YU President Samuel Belkin and Israel UN Ambassador and future Foreign Minister Abba Eban in 1955.
