A nurse saves steps between patients in the tenements by crossing over roofs, 1910, Archives & Special Collections, Columbia University Health Sciences, Courtesy of Visiting Nurse Service of New York.
Yeshiva University Museum presents Trail of the Magic Bullet
Now on view at the Center for Jewish History
Modern medicine emerged in the second half of the 19th century, as innovative technologies…
Out of the Archives: A Jewish Chaplain in Post-Liberation Dachau
by Rachel C. Miller, Senior Project Archivist, Center for Jewish History
One month after the liberation of Dachau, Army Chaplain Max Braude wrote this spirited letter to his wife, Eunice, recounting his day of relief work with 700 women survivors. Eunice Braude passed her husband’s letter on to Philip S. Bernstein, who was then the…
Present this ad and receive complimentary admission for 2 to the new exhibit! Now on view at the Center for Jewish History. 15 West 16th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues.
Over their centuries-long relationship with New York City, Jews have carved out a multitude of public and private spaces as their own, including neighborhood streets, businesses, synagogues and tenement apartments, as well as…
The 16th New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival (presented by the American Sephardi Federation here at the Center for Jewish History) kicks off this Thursday with the film Free Men (Les Hommes Libres).
Perhaps you read about the film in The Forward article “Muslims Who Helped Save French Jews” (January 10th).
Here is more information about it:
Paris 1942: Inspired…