Ed Koch, Bess Myerson, and Henry Kissinger at Stephen S. Wise Award Dinner, 1977. c/o American Jewish Historical Society (American Jewish Congress Collection).
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Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19, 1943) On its Seventieth Anniversary by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History
In April of 1943, news of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising reached the Vilna Ghetto, and Hirsh Glick wrote the song “Zog Nit Keyn Mol”(“Never Say”). It soon spread not only throughout the Vilna Ghetto, but also to other ghettos…
The American Jewish Historical Society series “American Jewish Portraits” has over 100 digitized daguerreotypes, photographs and paintings of Jewish individuals from the 18th to 20th centuries. Most are of the well-to-do, and they are clad in the latest fashions of the time period. Interestingly enough, it is impossible to discern them as Jewish, as the portraits give no clues to their religion.