MLK “A true brotherhood of man … in our nation”
In June 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. answered a letter from Paula Pappenheim drawing similarities between the struggle for freedom and equality for African Americans and Jews. King entreated Pappenheim to join the struggle to inspire a spirit of connection and humanity among all Americans, if not throughout the world.
Letter from Dr. King to Paula Pappenheim, Atlanta, Georgia, 1964, Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, Gift of Lucy Lang
by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History
Hanukkah Lamp. Galicia or Ukraine, ca. 1800. Silver: cast, filigree, engraved. The Max Stern Collection, Yeshiva University Museum. This lamp is of the Ba’al Shem Tov type, named after the founder of Hasidism, who, tradition tells us, owned a Hanukkah lamp of this type. This…
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At the Sewing Machine (from Songs of the Ghetto)
Poem by Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923) with translation from Yiddish by Berthold Feiwel (1875-1937). Illustration by Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925).
Berlin, Benjamin Harz Verlag ca. 1902.
Collection of Yeshiva University Museum (1996.023). Gift of Michael Cohn.
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From the partners’ collections: New Colony by Reuven Rubin, Israel 1929
Creator/Photographer: Rubin, Reuven, 1893-1974
Medium: Painting
Date: 1929
Persistent URL: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=367340
Repository: Yeshiva University Museum
Call Number: 1986.138
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REUVEN RUBIN’S EARLY TEL AVIV REVIEW
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