“The Radical Jewish Movement Wants You!”— Counter Culture Collections at the American Jewish Historical Society
By Nicole Greenhouse, Archivist
The
American Jewish Historical Society and the Center for Jewish History are proud
to highlight the AJHS Counter Culture Collections, a set
of over 170 linear feet of 25 smaller collections documenting Jewish involvement
in left politics, the Jewish Renewal movement, the Peace movement, and Jewish
student activism in the 20th century. Materials in…
“We must do our share in thecommunity of mankind”—the voice of Bayard Rustin in the American Soviet Jewry movement
By Andrey Filimonov
Audio recording: Public Service Announcements urging support for Soviet Jewry by Rita Moreno, Bayard Rustin, Sam Levenson and Alan King, recently digitized at the Center for Jewish History. Link to digital audio file: http://digital.cjh.org/4552838
Originally found on an open-reel tape, in the Records of National Conference on Soviet Jewry, I-181A, Box 369, Tape number M15.
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The Grand Street Boys’ Association, “headquarters of those who really love New York”
By Patricia Glowinski, Archivist at the Center for Jewish History
Processed in the Shelby White & Leon
Levy Archival Processing Laboratory at the Center for Jewish History (CJH) are
the Grand Street Boy’s Association Records, just one of the many archival collections
of the American Jewish Historical Society, one of the five partner institutions
comprising CJH. The…