Out of the Archives: Calendar Art
submitted by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History

This hand-drawn calendar card is from February 1920.  The artist is Lucie Ritter Marcus (1895-1967), wife of German-Jewish lawyer Ernst Marcus.  More information about the Marcuses can be found in the Leo Baeck Institute’s Ernst Marcus (Breslau) Collection, [AR 25006].

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Jews: Part One
by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History

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(This image is from the White House slideshow, “Our Presidents.”)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is considered one of the most popular and accomplished presidents in American history. He pulled the U.S. economy into recovery from the Great Depression, contributed…

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American Presidents Between the Two World Wars
by J.D. Arden, M.L.I.S. candidate, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History

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On this Presidents’ Day, in the wake of one of the most heated political campaigns of recent memory, it is interesting to look back at how the interests of American Jews figured into the presidential scene of three presidents—Warren G….

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