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,…
In collaboration with #HistoryUnfolded: U.S. Newspapers and the Holocaust, a program of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), CJH will be hosting a ‘Research Sprint’– a day for Citizen Historians to conduct research in newspaper collections and investigate U.S. press coverage for specific Holocaust events in 1938 on March 18, 2018.
Data that is uncovered for this project…
By Nicole Greenhouse, Archivist at the Center for Jewish History
Currently, I am working on a project to arrange and
describe a 100 linear foot accretion to the American Jewish Congress Records
(I-77) at the American Jewish Historical Society. As I work through the
collection, I was struck by a run of the “Anti-Nazi Bulletin” that I found in a
…
By David Myers, President/CEO of the Center for Jewish History
The final song of the smash Broadway hit Hamilton asks with great poignancy: “Who will tell
your story?” The line is a telling
reminder that those who lack power or fail to live long enough, such as
Alexander Hamilton, often don’t get to leave…