By the CJH/AJHS Expanding Access to American Jewish Archival Collections Project Team
The Center for Jewish History (the Center) and the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) have completed the first phase of a multi-step collaborative endeavor to expand access to American Jewish archival collections at local Jewish historical societies and museums, as well as within academic special collections…
Michelle McCarthy,
M.S.L.I.S., Reference Services Assistant, Center for Jewish History
On
Wednesday, March 11th, the 64th Annual Jewish Book Awards
for 2014 were held at the Center for Jewish History. The awards are distributed
each year in 15 categories by the Jewish Book Council to promote the “reading,
writing, and publishing of modern Jewish content in American literature.” These
By Zachary Loeb, M.S.I.S. Reference Services Librarian – Patron Services
Libraries and archives contain a heck of a lot of paper, and oftentimes getting access to that paper requires (you guessed it) even more paper. For years, visitors to the Center for Jewish History’s Lillian Goldman Reading Room needed to grab a stack of paper call slips if they wanted to…
Science of Judaism (Wissenschaft des Judentums)
In 2011 the Center for Jewish History and the Leo Baeck Institute, one of its five partners, embarked on a project with Goethe University Frankfurt am Main to digitize nearly 1,000 books that went missing from the university library’s Judaica collection during the devastation of World War II. The goal of the project was to digitally recreate the Freimann Judaica Collection as…