Happy Tu B’Shevat! It is the 15th of Shevat, the “New Year for Trees”–a holiday during which Jews reflect on the importance of respecting and preserving the environment. Pictured above: Tree Planting circa 1934Subjects: Israel; agriculture; childrenCall/Accession Number: 2009.500 | Source: cjh emu
Title page from an 1894 version of David Copperfield published in Vilna. Dickens was frequently published in serial form; this is part four of the novel. “Tsarles Dikens” in the Collectionsby Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Center for Jewish History Today marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birthday, and in the spirit of the day, the reference desk at the Center did some…
Out of the Archives: From Labor to Justiceby Rachel C. Miller, Senior Project Archivist, Center for Jewish History The quotidian cross-out on this letterhead represents a pivotal moment in U.S. immigration history, when, following the outbreak of war in Europe, the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration deemed immigration a security concern over an economic one and transferred the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from the…
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