American Presidents Between the Two World Wars
by J.D. Arden, M.L.I.S. candidate, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
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….
YIVO, National Library of Israel team to acquire Chaim Grade collection
The Chaim Grade collection will reside with YIVO here at the Center for Jewish History.
Out of the Archives: “A Love Story in One Act” (October 1944)
Submitted by Leanora Lange, Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, this “Love Story in One Act” was discovered among pages of correspondence in the freshly-processed Lucie Blau Family Collection (Leo Baeck Institute).
Out of the Archives: “Read and Decide!”
by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History
Jakob Altmaier was a German-Jewish parliamentarian in the Federal Republic of Germany. After spending World War Two in north Africa attached to the British army, he returned to Germany. In 1949, he ran for and won a seat in the German Parliament (the Bundestag) representing Hanau-Gelnhausen as…