Sidney Franklin (11 July 1903 – 26 April 1976) -the first Jewish American to become a successful bullfighter
From the Sidney Franklin Collection (Call number P-894) in the archives of the American Jewish Historical Society.
There is an electronic finding aid for the collection here: http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=635255
From the finding aid: “…In 1922, after a violent dispute with his father, Franklin ran away…
This image is from the first Jewish queer zine – it is preserved in the Jewish Counter Culture collection (Call number I-504) in the archives of the American Jewish Historical Society here at the Center.
This artifact will be part of a special display during an upcoming program presented by the American Jewish Historical Society on June 23rd: Changing Lives, Making History: CBST…
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Take a minute to access one of the thousands of digitized Holocaust artifacts including over 300 oral histories and over 200 memoirs. Access.cjh.org
A few selections:
American Jewish Historical Society’s Photograph: Markers for graves of 80 victims found dead of Nazi brutality in the concentration camp at Ludwigslust http://access.cjh.org/210628
Leo Baeck Institute’s National Socialism…
By David P Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History
With the Armenian Genocide back in the news I looked into the Raphael Lemkin collection at the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History.
Raphael Lemkin coined the term “genocide.” Some of his papers and research materials are held by the American Jewish Historical Society including many index…