Above, a boy stands before the oldest surviving synagogue building in New York City, located at 172 Norfolk Street. What was then a neighborhood fixture brimming with debates about Jewish identity and rite has, like many other Lower East Side synagogues, since faced…
To celebrate the exhibition Nourishing Tradition: Jewish Cookbooks and the
Stories They Tell, the Center for Jewish History is excited to welcome Bonnie Slotnick,
owner of Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks. Bonnie will share
some of her
experiences
with Jewish cookbooks over many years of selling rare and
out-of-print cookbooks, and bring…
This post was written by Kat Fanning,
conservation technician, Center for Jewish History
A cookie, a memento of a past special event, was brought to
the conservation lab from the American Sephardi Federation (ASF) to see if anything
could be done in order to preserve it so that it could be kept in the
collection. The cookie had originally…
Remembering Kristallnacht
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History
November 9th -10th marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a series of attacks on Jews in Germany and Austria that was a turning point for the Nazi Party. Kristallnacht is often looked at as the beginning of the Holocaust.
Each of the five partners of the Center for Jewish History has material on Kristallnacht…
by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History
Above image: Hanukkah services for soldiers, circa 1917. National Jewish Welfare Board Records. c/o American Jewish Historical Society.
Quizzes
Prakim, a 1953 monthly program manual for synagogue activity, was published by the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. Before Hanukkah questions, it has a passage…
