To learn more about New York City and the Jews, visit the exhibition currently on view here at the Center. Click here to learn more.
The above images are courtesy of the American Jewish Historical Society. They also appeared in a 2009 New York Times blog entry on Passover. Click here to read that article.
Marianne Rein. Click on images for larger views.
Images: Photographs of her in the 1930s; an illustration she did in one of her letters to Jacob Picard; a letter to Jacob Picard; a typed page of her poems; a letter from the National Council of Jewish Women; and a handwritten page of her poems—the second of which is translated below.
Europa
by Marianne Rein
The…
Contemplating Hell
by Bertolt Brecht
Contemplating Hell, as I once heard it,
My brother Shelley found it to be a place
Much like the city of London. I,
Who do not live in London, but in Los Angeles,
Find, contemplating Hell, that it
Must be even more like Los Angeles.
Also in Hell,
I do not doubt it, there exist these opulent gardens
With…
On Sunday, April 15th, the partners of the Center for Jewish History will host a second-hand book sale from 11am to 4pm.
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, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Itzik Manger, Chaim Grade and many…