New from Research and Reference Services: Book a Librariansubmitted by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History The Center for Jewish History is happy to assist you in discovering resources! You can arrange one-on-one research appointments with library professionals who will help further your research. Thirty-minute sessions are limited to one research topic appropriate to the collections housed at…
Meet the author: The Aleppo CodexThursday, June 27th at 7pmCenter for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, NYC Author Matti Friedman will join the Center for Jewish History’s 16th Street book club for a discussion of his book The Aleppo Codex: In Pursuit of One of the World’s Most Coveted, Sacred, and Mysterious Books. All 16th Street book club sessions are free and open…
NYT: Italian Praised for Saving Jews Is Now Seen as Nazi Collaborator Information about Giovanni Palatucci, celebrated for saving Jews, is being removed from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in light of evidence that the tales may be untrue. Centro Primo Levi here at the Center for Jewish History “stated that a research panel of more than a dozen scholars who reviewed nearly…
Out of the Archives: Early Collaborationsubmitted by Michael D. Montalbano, M.A., M.L.I.S., Institutional Archivist / Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History Some 25 years before the American Jewish Historical Society, Leo Baeck Institute and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research came together as three of the five partners of the Center for Jewish History, they were meeting to discuss potential for institutional collaboration on different…