Mining the Archives: Jews and the Civil Rights Movement

by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History

Remembering Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. on the occasion of his 83rd birthday

At a fundraising event in a northern synagogue, a rabbi asked Dr. King what his sources of strength were. Dr. King responded: “You and I draw living waters from the same spring…from the belief in a God of…

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MLK “A true brotherhood of man … in our nation”

In June 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. answered a letter from Paula Pappenheim drawing similarities between the struggle for freedom and equality for African Americans and Jews.  King entreated Pappenheim to join the struggle to inspire a spirit of connection and humanity among all Americans, if not throughout…

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Contest deadline extended

New Deadline: February 1, 2012

Your writing could be selected to appear in the Center for Jewish History’s March 2012 custom issue with The Jewish Week, a publication that will reach some 85,000 people.

To enter the contest, draw on your own experience and write a response to the following: 

“The themes from Jewish history combine the wide-ranging facts of creativity and courage, and of…

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