In Honor of Veterans Day 2012
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History
The need to document those in our communities is a longstanding tradition in Judaism. Beginning in Biblical times there was the half-shekel annual accounting of all Jews where “the rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less” (Exodus 30:15).
In…
Dear Friend of the Center,
I hope that this message finds you well in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. After being forced to close for the past week because of the storm, the Center for Jewish History is now open to the public once again, and we hope that you will visit us soon. Our phones, email accounts and online resources are…
Happy 126th birthday to the Statue of Liberty! Today also marks the end of a year worth of renovations to the Statue.
The American Jewish Historical Society here at the Center holds the handwritten original of Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” (1883), which is the poem that graces the Statue of Liberty (installed on bronze plaque in 1903). The above image is of the…
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