by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History This post is part of the Jews and Social Justice Series. To view all posts in the series, click here. The Jewish Labor Committee is the longest existing prominent pro-civil rights Jewish labor organization. It was founded in 1934 as a union between the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA), the International Ladies Garment Workers…
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Jews: Part Oneby Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History (This image is from the White House slideshow, “Our Presidents.”) Franklin Delano Roosevelt is considered one of the most popular and accomplished presidents in American history. He pulled the U.S. economy into recovery from the Great Depression, contributed to orchestrating the defeat of the Nazi/Axis…
American Presidents Between the Two World Warsby J.D. Arden, M.L.I.S. candidate, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History On this Presidents’ Day, in the wake of one of the most heated political campaigns of recent memory, it is interesting to look back at how the interests of American Jews figured into the presidential scene of three presidents—Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert…
by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History The pamphlet “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” an anti-Semitic forgery that outlined alleged plans for Jewish world domination, appeared with disturbing regularity throughout the 20th century, and unfortunately is sometimes cited even today as an authentic document. The work has been thoroughly debunked many times, perhaps most famously at the so-called Bern trial…