From the partner’s collections: In ṿald, L. Ḳṿiṭḳo ; tseykhenungen Y. Ribaḳ / אין װאלד, קװיטקא ; צײכענונגען י. ריבאק Description: A little boy, Itsi, dreamt that he went to the forest, where he met many different animals: a fox, a tiger, a lion, a wolf, a bear, a monkey etc.To read the entire book, click here.Illustrator: Ryback, Issachar, 1897-1935.Author: Kvitko, Leib, 1890-1952Object Origin:…
From the partners’ collections: Poster for the Jewish Relief Campaign Artist: Burke; printed by Sackett & Wilhelms Corp.Date: 1917Persistent URL: http://museums.cjh.org/Display.php?irn=15835Repository: Yeshiva University MuseumAccession number: 2008.046 Visit our Flickr photostream for more from the partners’ collections.
The American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) here at the Center is home to the original manuscript of “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus–the poem that graces the Statue of Liberty. Perhaps the poem’s most famous lines are “Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” This New York Times article (“How a Sonnet Made a Statue the ‘Mother…
From the partners’ collections: Die Pleite Description: Satirical political expressionist periodical, published shortly after World War I by Wieland Herzfelde, the founder of the Malik-Verlag. Many illustrations by expressionist artists George Grosz and Otto Dix among others. Wieland Herzfelde fled to Prague in 1933, then to London and finally New York, where he founded the Aurora Press, which he ran together with 11 authors….