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The American Nazi Party’s Abduction of a Jewish Boy in 1961

By Andrew Sperling, Leon Levy Fellow

The American Nazi Party’s Abduction of a Jewish Boy in 1961

On a humid summer’s night in July 1961, thirteen-year-old Ricky Farber and his friends bounced around their suburban neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia. There, they stumbled upon an odd and frightening house draped in massive Nazi battle flags. What happened next would be a source of contention: Farber and…

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An Unlikely Journalist: Emile Bocian in Chinatown, Part 3: ACTIVISM

By Lauren Gilbert (co-curator)
Senior Manager for Public Services, Center for Jewish History

An Unlikely Journalist: Emile Bocian in Chinatown, Part 3: ACTIVISM

This is a series of blog posts about the upcoming exhibition An Unlikely Photojournalist: Emile Bocian in Chinatown, a joint project of The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) and Center for Jewish History. For an overview of the exhibition and its…

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An Unlikely Journalist: Emile Bocian in Chinatown, Part 2:
A NEIGHBORHOOD IN TRANSITION

By Lauren Gilbert (co-curator)
Senior Manager for Public Services, Center for Jewish History

An Unlikely Journalist: Emile Bocian in Chinatown, Part 2
A NEIGHBORHOOD IN TRANSITION

This is a series of blog posts about the upcoming exhibition An Unlikely Photojournalist: Emile Bocian in Chinatown, a joint project of The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) and Center for Jewish History. For…

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UPCOMING EXHIBITION | An Unlikely Photojournalist: Emile Bocian in Chinatown

By Lauren Gilbert (co-curator)
Senior Manager for Public Services, Center for Jewish History

UPCOMING EXHIBITION | An Unlikely Photojournalist: Emile Bocian in Chinatown

Emile Bocian (1912-1990), son of Eastern-European Jewish immigrants, was perhaps the only non-Asian resident of Chinatown’s iconic Confucius Plaza apartment complex at the intersection of Bowery, Doyers Street, and Division Street in the 1970s and 80s. Through…

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