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…
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 origins, read this…
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 an overview of…
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 a series of chance encounters,…
Yiddish Wall Newspapers “Wall newspapers”—large, hand-lettered or typed newsletters posted in a shared communal space—have their roots in Soviet propaganda. Among the rich historical resources available through the Center for Jewish History’s digital collections are wall newspapers that form a portion of YIVO’s Displaced Persons Camps and Centers Poster Collection, RG 294.6. Created in the aftermath of World War II, these fragile documents provide…
