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Preserving and Housing of a Cookie from an American Sephardi Federation Gala

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 been stored in a plastic…

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Sephardic Journeys: Rome’o i Zhuliyet The rare books and artifacts in this exhibit, Sephardic Journeys, reflect a rich tradition of scholarship and culture shaped by migrations, and they invite, in turn, reflection upon the physical, emotional and spiritual journeys of Jewish history.  Item above:Rome’o i Zhuliyet (רומיאו אי ז’ולייטה)William Shakespeare(Salonika, 1922) Ladino This translation comes from the Balkans, which hosted a lively Ladino literary…

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Sephardic Journeys: Tsemah David: Dittionario Novo The rare books and artifacts in this exhibit, Sephardic Journeys, reflect a rich tradition of scholarship and culture shaped by migrations, and they invite, in turn, reflection upon the physical, emotional and spiritual journeys of Jewish history.  Item above: Tsemah David: Dittionario NovoDavid ben Isaac de PomisIoannem de Gara (Venice, 1587)Hebrew, Aramaic, Italian, Latin Dedicated to Pope Sixtus…

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Sephardic Journeys: Sefer Chesed L’Avraham The rare books and artifacts in this exhibit, Sephardic Journeys, reflect a rich tradition of scholarship and culture shaped by migrations, and they invite, in turn, reflection upon the physical, emotional and spiritual journeys of Jewish history.  Item above:Sefer Chesed L’Avraham (ספר חסד לאברהם)Avraham ben R. Shalom TubianaṾalansi (Izmir, 1764)Hebrew A truly Sephardic item, the first imprint of this…

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Sephardic Journeys: Seder Ta’aniyot The rare books and artifacts in this exhibit, Sephardic Journeys, reflect a rich tradition of scholarship and culture shaped by migrations, and they invite, in turn, reflection upon the physical, emotional and spiritual journeys of Jewish history.  Item above:Seder Ta’aniyot (סדר תעניות)Girard Yohan Yanson Uve-Vet Yisra’el Mondovi (Amsterdam, 1771)Hebrew, Spanish Beginning in the late 17th century, Amsterdam emerged as one…

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Sephardic Journeys: Sefer Shulchan HaPanim The rare books and artifacts in this exhibit, Sephardic Journeys, reflect a rich tradition of scholarship and culture shaped by migrations, and they invite, in turn, reflection upon the physical, emotional and spiritual journeys of Jewish history. Item above: Sefer Shulchan HaPanim (ספר שלחן הפנים)Joseph ben Ephraim KaroMosheh ben Shelomoh Ashkenazi (Venice, 1712)Hebrew, Ladino While intending to write a…

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Sephardic Journeys: Bar Mitzvah Speech The rare books and artifacts in this exhibit, Sephardic Journeys, reflect a rich tradition of scholarship and culture shaped by migrations, and they invite, in turn, reflection upon the physical, emotional and spiritual journeys of Jewish history.  Item above:Bar Mitzvah SpeechMorris Tarragano(New York, 1933)Ladino, English Morris Tarragano’s family, as many Sephardim after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, immigrated…

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Sephardic Journeys now open in The David Berg Rare Book Room The rare books and artifacts in this exhibit, Sephardic Journeys, reflect a rich tradition of scholarship and culture shaped by migrations, and they invite, in turn, reflection upon the physical, emotional and spiritual journeys of Jewish history. Item above: Sefer Tikkun Sofrim u-Mikra Sofrim (ספר תקון סופרים ומקרא סופרים)Isaac ben Abba Mari, Ya’aḳov…

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Using the Archives to Reflect on Your Hanukkah Experience

by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History  Hanukkah Lamp. Galicia or Ukraine, ca. 1800. Silver: cast, filigree, engraved. The Max Stern Collection, Yeshiva University Museum. This lamp is of the Ba’al Shem Tov type, named after the founder of Hasidism, who, tradition tells us, owned a Hanukkah lamp of this type. This made it very popular in the…

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Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!Detective fiction from the Partner Collectionsby Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Center for Jewish History “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.” –from “The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes” (1892)  May 22, 1859 was the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes: the most celebrated sleuth…

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Yom Yerushalayim: Selections

In Honor of Yom Yerushalayim: five selections concerning Jerusalem from each of the five partners. Compiled by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History  Yom Yerushalayim commemorates the reunification of Jerusalem and Israeli control over the Old City. The victory in the Six-Day War resulted in the first time Jews took control of the city since the destruction of the…

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