Browsing tag

facebook

Highlight from Recently Digitized American Soviet Jewry Movement Collections: Joel and Adele Sandberg Papers—Letter from Sheryl Sandberg to her “Bat Mitzvah twin” Kira Volovsky

image

by Andrey Filimonov

View digital materials online at http://digital.cjh.org/2873290

Letter from 12-year old Sheryl Sandberg to her Bat Mitzvah twin Kira Volovsky—a Refusenik girl in the Soviet Union. Joel and Adele Sandberg Papers, P-872, American Jewish Historical Society

Thanks to generous support from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC),…

2676 0

Writing Contest Now Open

Your writing could be selected to appear in the Center for Jewish History’s March 2012 custom issue with the Jewish Week, a publication that will reach some 85,000 people.

To enter the contest, draw on your own experience and write a response to the following: 

“The themes from Jewish history combine the wide-ranging facts of creativity and courage, and of…

842 0