Mapping the Offenbach Archival Depot: A Collaborative Endeavor
by Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Services Librarian, Special Collections, Center for Jewish History
Click here to view a map that shows how books looted by the Nazis traveled across Europe.
As a reference librarian at the Center for Jewish History, one of my favorite items to show when I…
New at the Center for Jewish History
Opening Sunday, October 6, 2013
The David Berg Rare Book Room is a new state-of-the-art space presenting exhibitions and collections of rare books, first editions, illuminated manuscripts and letters dating back hundreds of years. It provides for the first time a shared exhibition space for the Center partners’ treasures. Visitors can virtually turn the pages of digitized…
Judisches Ceremonial
This German book contains illustrated explanations to numerous Jewish rituals spanning from birth to death, including circumcision, presentation of the first born, prayer at the synagogue, a wedding procession, purification of the bride, the washing of the brother-in-law’s feet, the feast of reconciliation, death rites, burials, and celebrations of the Sabbath, Passover, and the New Year. Published in 1716, a copy…