Out of the ArchivesForesightSubmitted by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History From the Leo Baeck Institute’s Helen Ollendorff Curth Collection ([AR 25004]). Excerpt from the above June 1933 letter: “I doubt whether I can really give you authentic information on the German-Jewish doctor question. I happen to know, because I have a married sister in Cork, that the Irish Free State…
LBI Archivist in the New York Times Caring for Albert Einstein’s childhood teacup or Meyer Lansky’s marriage certificate, archivists in New York are assuming a higher profile and doing more networking. This NYT article features archivist Michael Simonson of the Leo Baeck Institute, one of the 5 partners here at the Center for Jewish History.
Our new microfilm readers await you!by Zachary Loeb, MSIS, Patron Services Librarian, Center for Jewish History If you love microfilm (and Jewish history), then the Center for Jewish History is the place for you! Between the collections of the five partners at the Center for Jewish History and the items on extended loan in the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute, the Center has…
Professor Devin Naar was recently named to the Center for Jewish History’s Academic Advisory Council. This interview with him was originally published on StroumJewishStudies.org, the website for the Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington, and is reposted here with permission. ———— Telling Untold Stories: Sephardic Jews & the Holocaust Prof. Devin Naar, whose interest in Sephardic Holocaust history led him on…