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Marriage Contract Form (Ketubah)

Creator: Chaim Gross
Type: Lithograph on paper
Year: 1979
Repository: Yeshiva University Museum

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Join the 16th Street Book Club for a discussion of The Marriage Artist by Andrew Winer!

Tuesday, August 14th at 7pm

When the wife of renowned art critic Daniel Lichtmann plunges to her death, she is not alone. Lying next to her is Benjamin Wind, the…

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Out of the Archives: From the Department of Lost Irony

by Alyssa Carver, Project Archivist, Center for Jewish History

The Leo Baeck Institute’s newly processed Florence Mendheim Collection of Anti-Semitic Propaganda (AR 25441) contains a variety of American-made, pro-Nazi material from the 1930s, and even among such unpleasant company this publication stands out. On the cover of each issue of the National American Bulletin stands this figure: a muscular, loincloth-clad Native American…

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The Breakers, Atlantic City. Postcard c. 1940. Yeshiva University Museum.

The Breakers was one of many grand hotels lining the Atlantic City coast in the 1940s. The area became a top vacation destination for East Coasters in the 20th century, perhaps propelled by increasing disposable income among the middle class and the adoption of proper swimming outfits by men and women. You can…

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