I’m Jaime Taylor, the Center for Jewish History’s systems librarian. My
job has two components: I administer the catalog software, and I also do
strange things with the catalog records themselves. As such, by chance I see records
for all sorts of interesting items that I might not otherwise realize the
Center holds.
Some months ago I read a title,…
By Andrey Filimonov, Archival Services Manager at
the Center for Jewish History
Screenshots from “Civil Disobedience—Demonstration and Clergy Arrest
at Soviet Consulate, November 18, 1985.” Original archival material found in
the Records
of the Bay Area Council for Soviet Jews and Bay Area Council for Jewish Rescue
and Renewal, I-505; box 100;…
By Andrey
Filimonov, Archival Services Manager at the Center for Jewish History
“Zions Captives”: documentary on Ida
Nudel (watch online: http://digital.cjh.org/4585693)
Original archival material found
Houston Action for Soviet Jewry Records I-500; box 35; VHS tape 022; American
Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY; PID http://digital.cjh.org/798129
…
The Center for Jewish History in New York City illuminates history, culture, and heritage.The Center provides a collaborative home for five partner organizations: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
The partners’ archives comprise the world’s largest and most comprehensive archive of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel. The Center’s experts…
by Andrey Filimonov
View digital materials online at http://digital.cjh.org/2658842
Folder with information for the American Soviet Jewry movement activists traveling to meet Jews in the Soviet Union. Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry Records, I-507, American Jewish Historical Society
Thanks to generous support from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC), the Center…