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Happy 126th birthday to the Statue of Liberty! Today also marks the end of a year worth of renovations to the Statue.

The American Jewish Historical Society here at the Center holds the handwritten original of Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” (1883), which is the poem that graces the Statue of Liberty (installed on bronze plaque in 1903). The above image is of the…

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Second-hand Book Sale
October 21 and 22, 11am-4pm
at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
 
The sale will include duplicate copies and “out-of-scope” work from the partners’ collections. Discover used books about Jewish and general history, literature, art, biographies, religion and other related topics. Authors include Sholem Aleichem, Marc D. Angel,…

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