Photo of the day: A family portrait at the double wedding ceremony of the Heimann and Rosenfelder families in August 1909. From The Leo Baeck Institute.
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New energy in the archives: Reflections on the Archival Fellowship Program
by Leanora Lange, Processing and Institutional Archivist and Digitization Projects Liaison, Center for Jewish History
The summer 2014 Archival Fellows and the Center archivists who ran the program. From top left to bottom right: Katalin Rac, Martha Stellmacher, Martina Ravagnan, Rachel Miller, Jessica Parker, Aleksandra Kubica, Leanora Lange, Isaac Moore, Sarah Ponichtera, and Rachel Harrison.
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