Leonore Lanfer
Artist: unknown
Medium: black and white photograph
Date: circa 1900
Repository: Yeshiva University Museum
The Center’s Genealogy Institute & Reading Room
by Anna Khomina, Research and Special Projects Intern, Center for Jewish History
Visitors to exhibits at the Center for Jewish History sometimes discover the Ackman and Ziff Genealogy Institute and the adjacent Lillian Goldman Reading Room, and they wonder what these serene and light-filled research oases are. This post serves as a basic introduction to these two rooms, based on inquiries I have…
Jacob Stein and the Bakery Band Puppets
Sunday, July 15th from 11:30-12:30: Join Jacob Stein and his hilarious puppet friends for a musical journey through Jewish culture! The lively Bakery Band Puppets are guaranteed to get your family out on the floor and dancing. For event information, go to: http://cjh.org/summersundays/. Tickets are $5, (free for kids 2 and under,) and…
From the Collections: Jewish Nurses
by Susan Woodland, Senior Archivist, American Jewish Historical Society
Jenna Weissman Joselit recently wrote a thoughtful column in The Jewish Daily Forward entitled, “Where Have All the Nurses Gone? Jews Flocked to Every Helping Profession But One.“
The column ruminates on nurses, why there have always been so few Jewish nurses, and the importance of Jewish nurses in the professional life of…