Second-hand Book Sale
October 21 and 22, 11am-4pm
at the Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY (between 5th & 6th Avenues)
 
The sale will include duplicate copies and “out-of-scope” work from the partners’ collections. Discover used books about Jewish and general history, literature, art, biographies, religion and other related topics. Authors include Sholem Aleichem, Marc D. Angel,…

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Part 3 – LBI and the Day of Digital Archives

Weekend at Scharmützelsee – 1935

This is an example of an archival collection that takes on an entirely new meaning in the context of information provided by the donors.  This footage of summer vacationers in Germany in the 1930s contains few clues about the identity of the subjects or their historical circumstances. In…