Consulting Jewish Cookbooks for ThanksgivingCompiled by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History Jewish cookery book, on principles of economy: adapted for Jewish housekeepers, with the addition of many useful medicinal recipes, and other valuable information, relative to housekeeping and domestic management was the first Jewish cookbook published in America. It has instructions on how to boil and…
Thanksgiving Sermonsby David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History On April 30th, 1789 George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of the United States of America. On October 3rd, he declared “Thursday the Twenty-sixth Day of November next” as a day of thanksgiving. On that day, the first Thanksgiving sermon was given by the Reverend Gershom Seixas…
Happy Birthday, Robert Louis Stevenson!by Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Center for Jewish History Robert Louis Stevenson was born yesterday in the year 1850 in Scotland. He was a prolific and popular author in his time, enjoying a great deal of success until he fell out of critical favor after World War II. In the latter part of the 20th century, his…
In Honor of Veterans Day 2012by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History The need to document those in our communities is a longstanding tradition in Judaism. Beginning in Biblical times there was the half-shekel annual accounting of all Jews where “the rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less” (Exodus 30:15). In the…