From the partners’ collections: Interior view of the destroyed Fasanenstrasse Synagogue, Berlin, burned on Kristallnacht during the November Pogroms
Creator/Photographer: Unknown
Medium: Black and white photographic print
Date: 1938
Repository: Leo Baeck Institute
Parent Collection: Berlin; Jewish Community Collection
Call Number: AR 88
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Happy Tu B’Shevat!
It is the 15th of Shevat, the “New Year for Trees”–a holiday during which Jews reflect on the importance of respecting and preserving the environment.
Pictured above: Tree Planting circa 1934
Subjects: Israel; agriculture; children
Call/Accession Number: 2009.500 | Source: cjh emu
Title page from an 1894 version of David Copperfield published in Vilna. Dickens was frequently published in serial form; this is part four of the novel.
“Tsarles Dikens” in the Collections
by Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Center for Jewish History
Today marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birthday, and in the spirit of the day, the reference desk at…