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Tales from the Catalog : Is This Radioactive?
I’m Jaime Taylor, the Center for Jewish History’s systems librarian. My
job has two components: I administer the catalog software, and I also do
strange things with the catalog records themselves. As such, by chance I see records
for all sorts of interesting items that I might not otherwise realize the
Center holds.
Some months ago I read a title,…
By Pulpit & Press: German Reform Comes to America
Exhibition on view through October 25, 2014
at the Center for Jewish History (15 West 16th Street, NYC)
(Above image fabricated with maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection: www.davidrumsey.com.)
In the mid-to-late 19th century, many German-born rabbis left Germany to practice their faith in the United States. Isaac Leeser, Isaac Mayer Wise, David Einhorn, Max Lilienthal, and Bernard…
Today in History: King David Hotel Bombing
By Emily Burack, Research Intern
Seventy years ago, on July 22, 1946, the bombing of the King
David Hotel occurred in Mandatory Palestine. The Irgun Zvai Leumi (Irgun), a
group that played a key role in the Jewish underground, orchestrated the attack
in response to a day known as “Black Sabbath,” June 29, 1946, when British
officials arrested nearly 3,000…