Yom Yerushalayim: Selections

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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

American Sephardi Federation

Leo Baeck Institute

Yeshiva University Museum

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

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.”

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