Out of the Archives: Agnon Poemby 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 his Bar Mitzvah in 1935. …
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 was created by…
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 collection in…
Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!Detective fiction from the Partner Collectionsby 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 celebrated sleuth…