Rosh Hashanah Resources
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History
In honor of the New Year I examined ten resources available at the Center (for the ten days of repentance) that reflect on the experience of the High Holidays in the military.
Memoirs
1) Reflections on World War II: Chaplain Jacob Kraft’s Letters to Leah…
by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History
Many things come to the minds of Americans when they think of Abraham Lincoln: the story of the apple tree and the nickname “honest Abe,” the address at Gettysburg, the Emancipation Proclamation. One thing that may not immediately come to mind is the fight for religious freedom that Lincoln fought amidst…
by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History
Today marks seventy years since the attack on Pearl Harbor, the event that hurled America into the Second World War.
According to the Encyclopedia Judaica, Jews’ service to the United States armed forces started with militia duty during the Colonial era. “A considerable number of Jews volunteered for the…