Out of the Archives: Agnon Poem
by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History
The Ofra D. Core Collection of Center partner the Leo Baeck Institute contains a handwritten Hebrew poem by Nobel laureate Shmuel Yosef Agnon. It was written for Ofra’s husband David Core (born Uriel Bergmann, son of noted philosopher Hugo Bergmann) on the occasion of…
Out of the Archives: Birthday Card for a “Wanderer”
by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History
This birthday card, found in the Leo Baeck Institute’s Margaret Rothenberger Family Collection (AR 25465), is part of a scrapbook documenting the Rothenberger family’s two years in France, 1933-1935, after they fled Germany and before they immigrated to the United States.
It…
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History
As a continuation of the series dedicated to digging deeper into the collections here at the Center in honor of Jewish Heritage Month, I’m going to explore finding aids and other tools that can help demystify archival research.
Often, I refer to the finding aid of a…
Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!
Detective fiction from the Partner Collections
by Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Center for Jewish History
“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.” –from “The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes” (1892)
May 22, 1859 was the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes: the most…