“The First Jewish Feminist:” Ernestine Rose
By Jackie Brettschneider, Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
Ernestine Rose is popularly known as the first Jewish feminist. It didn’t take her long to realize that women weren’t treated the same way as men. Her views were extremely progressive even from a young age, and she stated that, “I was a rebel at the age of five.”….
Consulting Jewish Cookbooks for Thanksgiving
Compiled by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish HistoryJewish cookery book, on principles of economy: adapted for Jewish housekeepers, with the addition of many useful medicinal recipes, and other valuable information, relative to housekeeping and domestic management was the first Jewish cookbook published in America. It has…
Thanksgiving Sermons
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish HistoryOn April 30th, 1789 George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America. On October 3rd, he declared “Thursday the Twenty-sixth Day of November next” as a day of thanksgiving. On that day, the first Thanksgiving sermon was…
Albert Einstein presented his theory of relativity to the Prussian Academy of Science 100 years ago today. 1 2
The Leo Baeck Institute has an Albert Einstein Archival collection (http://search.cjh.org/beta:CJH_ALEPH00020218)
In honor of the centennial here is a small selection of the digitized material available.
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