Trying to Save Iran’s Last Public Jewish Star – Tablet Magazine New from Tablet Magazine. (Diarna – an organization you’ll read about in the above article – presented at the Center’s international digital humanities conference, “From Access to Integration.” Click here to read our post about their presentation.)
From the partners’ collections: An Idyl Creator: Meir Gur-Arie and L. ZeidmanDate: 1933Medium: printedPersistent URL: http://museums.cjh.org/Display.php?irn=14336Repository: Yeshiva University MuseumAccession number: 2005.141Rights statement: Click here. Visit our Flickr photostream for more from the partners’ collections.
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by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History Hanukkah Lamp. Galicia or Ukraine, ca. 1800. Silver: cast, filigree, engraved. The Max Stern Collection, Yeshiva University Museum. This lamp is of the Ba’al Shem Tov type, named after the founder of Hasidism, who, tradition tells us, owned a Hanukkah lamp of this type. This made it very popular in the…