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
Rights statement: Click here.

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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

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Out of the Archives: From Labor to Justice
by Rachel C. Miller, Senior Project Archivist, Center for Jewish History

The quotidian cross-out on this letterhead represents a pivotal moment in U.S. immigration history, when, following the outbreak of war in Europe, the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration deemed immigration a security concern over an economic one and transferred the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from…

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