New York, NY (December 11, 2015) – The Center for Jewish History preserves and offers access to the original evidence of a thousand years of Jewish experience. Long the targets of intolerance and bigotry, the Jewish people are especially sensitive to prejudice directed against others, and we oppose it without qualification. The toxic virus of Islamophobia now threatening to infect American politics and society…
Jewish Populations in Europe, 1750 – 1950: Maps for Your Research Monday, December 14 6:30pm With the frequently changing borders of European countries in the 18th – 20th centuries, it can be a challenge to understand the locations of Jewish communities of interest within those countries. On behalf of the International Institute for Jewish Genealogy, Sandy Crystall developed a series of digital maps that…
16thstreet: 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…
16thstreet: by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History Today marks seventy years since the attack on Pearl Harbor, the event that hurled America into the Second World War. According to the Encyclopedia Judaica, Jews’ service to the United States armed forces started with militia duty during the Colonial era. “A considerable number of Jews volunteered for the colonialist…