By Reuben Keller, Past Research Intern I was a summer Research Intern at the Center for Jewish History from June to August 2016. This blog post is intended to talk about what I was doing and the really interesting materials I worked with. The focus of my project is a number of rare books donated by Sidney Lapidus to the Center for Jewish History….
Photos from The People and the Book – The World We Make with Words with Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. http://cjh.org/event/2818 Photos taken by Jen Rodewald, Digital Services Manager, Gruss Lipper Digital Lab, Center for Jewish History
Image: Signed First Edition of How to Make it in a Man’s World from the library of The American Jewish Historical Society By Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Librarian for Special Collections, Reference, and Instruction, Lillian Goldman Reading Room, Center For Jewish History Before Sheryl Sandberg told women to Lean In, Letty Cottin Pogrebin (Born June 9, 1939) was giving women the scoop on…
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 categories encompass a strong variety…
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 it…