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,…
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…
Part 2 – LBI and the Day of Digital Archives
FC Bayern München vs. Eintracht Frankfurt
In 1932, FC Bayern München faced Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Championship football match on June 12, 1932 at the Städtisches Stadion in Nuremberg. The game was a repeat of the southern-German title game that spring, in which Eintracht Frankfurt won 2:0. Munich turned the tables…
The Leo Baeck Institute and the Day of Digital Archives
by David Brown, Leo Baeck Institute
Leo Baeck Institute is home to nearly 4,000 linear feet of archival collections, 25,000 photographs, and thousands of artworks related to the history of German-speaking Jews. Today, the Institute is finished digitizing nearly all of it, plus hundreds of books from the Library collection.
Since 2007, the…