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Happy New Year from the Center for Jewish History!

Happy New Year from the Center for Jewish History. We’ve dug into our partners’ vast collections to find a wonderful selection of vintage Rosh Hashanah greeting cards to celebrate the Jewish New Year of 5773, which begins at sundown on Sunday, September 16, 2012.

The colorful cards date from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and offer nostalgic greetings in English, Hebrew and…

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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,…

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Israel Independence Day

16thstreet:

Israel. Black and white photograph. Albert Salomon Collection, Leo Baeck Institute.

In celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day):
two books and an archival collection, relating to Israel,
from each of our five partners.
compiled by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History
 

American Jewish Historical Society:

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