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Circa 1942. Text on back of photograph: President Franklin Roosevelt expressing appreciation for the effectiveness of JWB’s [Jewish Welfare Board’s] religious activities program in rallying support of the Jewish community behind war efforts. Photo from American Jewish Historical Society Archives.

U.S. Presidents and Jewish Officials
by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History

With Presidents’ Day approaching, I remembered…

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From the partners’ collections: Interior view of the destroyed Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, Berlin, burned on Kristallnacht during the November Pogroms

Creator/Photographer: Unknown
Medium: Black and white photographic print 
Date: 1938
Repository: Leo Baeck Institute
Parent Collection: Berlin; Jewish Community Collection
Call Number: AR 88
Rights statement: Click here.

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