In Honor of Yom Yerushalayim: five selections concerning Jerusalem from each of the five partners.
Compiled by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History
Yom Yerushalayim commemorates the reunification of Jerusalem and Israeli control over the Old City. The victory in the Six-Day War resulted in the first time Jews took control of the city since the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans nearly 1,900 years before the 1967 watershed event.
American Jewish Historical Society
- National Council of Jewish Women, mosaic map of Jerusalem, undated
- The history of the Jews from the destruction of Jerusalem to the nineteenth century : in two volumes [ 1812]
- A journey to Jerusalem : containing the travels of fourteen Englishmen in 1667 [i.e. 1669], to the Holy Land, and other memorable places noted in Scripture : to which is prefixed / collected by R. Burton. [1796]
- Jerusalem in Bible times[1908]
- Elvis in Jerusalem : post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel
American Sephardi Federation
- Jerusalem has many faces : [Poems]
- Jerusalem : With an introd. by Daniel Frisch
- Dr. Hesky from Jerusalem [Sound Recording]
- In the courtyards of Jerusalem : short stories
- Hebrew illuminated manuscripts from Jerusalem collections : [exhibition]
Leo Baeck Institute
- Print, engraving Ancient Jews in Jerusalem : Das Jüdische Synedrium
- Theodor Herzl Collection 1761-1903
- Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem Collection 1956-1989
- Banner of Jerusalem; the life, times, and thought of Abraham Isaac Kuk, the late Chief Rabbi of Palestine
- Eichmann in Jerusalem
Yeshiva University Museum
- Panorama of Jerusalem, Painting by Ludwig Blum
- Postcard album: Bezalel Art Center created by Yaakov Ben Dov originating from Jerusalem, Israel 1926
- Amulet Jerusalem, Israel 1910 – 1950
- Jerusalem in history and vision : [exhibition] : the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, summer 1968
- Photographing Jerusalem : the image of the city in nineteenth century photography
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
- The battle for Jerusalem / Vladimir Jabotinsky, Col. John Henry Patterson, D.S.O., Col. Josiah Wedgewood, M.P., Pierre Van Paassen explains why a Jewish army is indispensible [!] for the survival of the Jewish nation and preservation of world civilization.
- Discovering Jerusalem
- The midshipmen’s trip to Jerusalem and cruise in Syria [1871]
- The voice of Jerusalem
- The streets of Jerusalem : who, what, why
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For more resources, see this blog entry: “In celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day): two books and an archival collection, relating to Israel, from each of our five partners.”