Out of the Archives: Calendar Art submitted by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History
This hand-drawn calendar card is from February 1920. The artist is Lucie Ritter Marcus (1895-1967), wife of German-Jewish lawyer Ernst Marcus. More information about the Marcuses can be found in the Leo Baeck Institute’s Ernst Marcus (Breslau) Collection, [AR 25006].
“Yo Quiero” Sephardic Matzah Cookies! by J.D. Arden, M.L.I.S. candidate, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
This Passover season, I invite you to try your hand at some sweet recipes from the Sephardic community of Turkey. For over 500 years since the expulsion from Spain, the Sephardic Jewish community in Turkey has maintained a cultural heritage of Ladino language, music—and tasty cookies…
By Jackie Brettschneider, Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
As early as high school, Regina Jonas talked about becoming a rabbi. At the time not one woman was ordained to the position. Jonas’s pursuit came with many hardships and obstacles because she was a woman. Jonas, however, pursued ordination whole-heartedly because of her dedication to Jewish…