President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Jews: Part Twoby Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History Official Presidential portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1947. by Frank O. Salisbury. Continued from part one: Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1935-1945 (available here at the Center for Jewish History) brings to light the writings of James McDonald (the…
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Jews: Part Oneby Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History (This image is from the White House slideshow, “Our Presidents.”) Franklin Delano Roosevelt is considered one of the most popular and accomplished presidents in American history. He pulled the U.S. economy into recovery from the Great Depression, contributed to orchestrating the defeat of the Nazi/Axis…
American Presidents Between the Two World Warsby J.D. Arden, M.L.I.S. candidate, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History On this Presidents’ Day, in the wake of one of the most heated political campaigns of recent memory, it is interesting to look back at how the interests of American Jews figured into the presidential scene of three presidents—Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert…
Out of the Archives: “A Love Story in One Act” (October 1944)Submitted by Leanora Lange, Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History Just in time for Valentine’s Day, this “Love Story in One Act” was discovered among pages of correspondence in the freshly-processed Lucie Blau Family Collection (Leo Baeck Institute).