LBI Archivist in the New York Times
Caring for Albert Einstein’s childhood teacup or Meyer Lansky’s marriage certificate, archivists in New York are assuming a higher profile and doing more networking.
This NYT article features archivist Michael Simonson of the Leo Baeck Institute, one of the 5 partners here at the Center for Jewish History.
Our new microfilm readers await you!
by Zachary Loeb, MSIS, Patron Services Librarian, Center for Jewish History
If you love microfilm (and Jewish history), then the Center for Jewish History is the place for you! Between the collections of the five partners at the Center for Jewish History and the items on extended loan in the Ackman & Ziff Family…
Professor Devin Naar was recently named to the Center for Jewish History’s Academic Advisory Council. This interview with him was originally published on StroumJewishStudies.org, the website for the Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington, and is reposted here with permission.
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Telling Untold Stories: Sephardic Jews & the Holocaust
Prof. Devin Naar,…
Out of the Archives
Priorities
by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History
The first image above is a letter of reference written for Ernst Fleischmann upon his leaving the position of head chemist for BMW’s airplane engine division. He left voluntarily for the United States in 1935 as conditions for Jews in Germany were worsening. The second image is the United…