See the Religious Text the U.S. Government Printed for Concentration-Camp Survivors #YomHashoah #HolocaustRemembranceDay Artifact from The American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) preserved here at the Center in The Werner J. and Gisella Levi Cahnman Preservation Laboratory http://www.cjh.org/p/140
From our friends at the Museum of the City of New York: Event Description: Vintage Theater on a Modern Stage: The Golden Bride Wednesday, May 4 at 6:30 pm at Museum of the City of New York The Golden Bride, a 1923 Yiddish musical comedy, returned to the stage this past winter for the first time in almost 70 years. The New York Times called…
American Culture in Haggadahs from the Collections by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History Last year I reflected on the vast variety and volume of Haggadahs in my blog post “Dayenu: A few Passover Haggadot would have been enough…really?” This year I took a closer look at a handful of Haggadahs in the library of the American Jewish…
By Lauren Paustian, Associate Librarian for Technical Services, Leo Baeck Institute The Center for Jewish History and its partner institutions strive to preserve Jewish history and culture for future generations. As collection stewards and community builders, many staff members of the Center for Jewish History and its partner organizations also make an effort to promote environmental responsibility. Last year, a number of employees from…