Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

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

Today marks seventy years since the attack on Pearl Harbor, the event that hurled America into the Second World War. 

According to the Encyclopedia Judaica, Jews’ service to the United States armed forces started with militia duty during the Colonial era. “A considerable number of Jews volunteered for the…

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From the partners’ collections: Yiddish theater poster for “The Reverend’s Lady” at the Lawrence Opera House in Lawrence, Massachusetts

Creator: Unknown
Medium: Color poster
Date: 1918 April 18
Persistent URL: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=1214218
Call Number: 1967.001.044
Collection:Yiddish Theater Posters
Repository: American Jewish Historical Society
Rights statement: Click here. 

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From the partners’ collections: Goetz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand

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Description: Limited edition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Goetz von Berlichingen, illustrated with woodcuts by Bruno Goldschmitt (1881-1925), a German-Jewish artist from Nuremberg.
Creator: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Creator: Goldschmitt, Bruno, 1881-1925
Object Origin: Hellerau bei Dresden, 1923
Persistent URL: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=797483

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