A digitized page from Jewish Cookery Book by Mrs. Esther Levy. Image from the Library of Congress.
Cookbooks of the Collections: An Introduction
by Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Center for Jewish History
The scholarly importance of food studies has exploded as more and more special collections and libraries recognize the value of cookbooks and other such items. Scholars in a…
Mining the Archives: Jews and the Civil Rights Movement
by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History
Remembering Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. on the occasion of his 83rd birthday
At a fundraising event in a northern synagogue, a rabbi asked Dr. King what his sources of strength were. Dr. King responded: “You and I draw living waters from the same spring…from the belief in a God of…
Using the Archives to Reflect on Your Hanukkah Experience
by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History
Hanukkah Lamp. Galicia or Ukraine, ca. 1800. Silver: cast, filigree, engraved. The Max Stern Collection, Yeshiva University Museum. This lamp is of the Ba’al Shem Tov type, named after the founder of Hasidism, who, tradition tells us, owned a Hanukkah lamp of this type. This…
Out of the Archives: The Palestine Pound (1948-1952)
by Rachel Tutera, Project Archivist, Center for Jewish History
This Palestine Pound was found within the Samuel J. Citron Papers, a collection currently being processed for the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History. Born in Poland in 1908, Dr. Citron immigrated to the United States at approximately 13 years old. He studied…