by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
This post is part of the Jews and Social Justice Series. To read the introduction to the series, click here.
The Jewish Labor Bund was a unique and memorable force in European Jewish communal and political history. Established in Vilna in 1897, the General Jewish Labor Bund was originally conceived as…
Young men and women working on writing for publications at Camp Wel-Met, 1948. Photograph by Heinz H. Weissenstein. National Jewish Welfare Board Records. American Jewish Historical Society.
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16th Street book club
Join us for our upcoming discussion of a graphic novel!
Tuesday, August 20 at 7pm
at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, NY, NY
All book club sessions are free and open to the public. Please try to bring your books or e-reading devices with you.
About the book:
Unterzakhn by Leela Corman
A mesmerizing, heartbreaking…
Profiles of select Jewish organizations from the second half of the 20th century
by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
In March 2012, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the American Jewish Historical Society, partner organizations of the Center for Jewish History, co-hosted a two-day symposium on “Jews and the Left” featuring scholars from many different fields to discuss…