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Join the Center for Jewish History and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for a Research Sprint!

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 helps the USHMM to discover…

cjh-blog-admin March 15, 2018

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In Plain Sight: The Marvelous, Unlikely History of Bard Professor Justus Rosenberg

By James Benjamin Nadel, Research Intern You might not expect a 95 year old literature professor to emphasize youth when discussing his life. But that is exactly how Justus Rosenberg described his upcoming talk at the Center for Jewish History to me. “I will do it from the perspective of a teenager…it is for someone like you.” Next Wednesday, Justus will be discussing his…

cjh-blog-admin July 26, 2016

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See the Religious Text the U.S. Government Printed for Concentration-Camp Survivors

See the Religious Text the U.S. Government Printed for Concentration-Camp Survivors #‎YomHashoah‬ ‪#‎HolocaustRemembranceDay‬ Artifact from The American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) preserved here at the Center in The Werner J. and Gisella Levi Cahnman Preservation Laboratory http://www.cjh.org/p/140

cjh-blog-admin May 5, 2016

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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. Take a minute to access one of the thousands of digitized Holocaust artifacts including over 300 oral histories and over 200 memoirs. Access.cjh.org A few selections:American Jewish Historical Society’s Photograph: Markers for graves of 80 victims found dead of Nazi brutality in the concentration camp at Ludwigslust http://access.cjh.org/210628 Leo Baeck Institute’s National Socialism Collection http://access.cjh.org/355965 Yeshiva University Museum’s Poster:…

cjh-blog-admin April 16, 2015

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On Display at the Center for Jewish History

Illuminated Manuscript Presented in Thanks after the HolocaustJuly 1945Tangier, MoroccoVellum, Gouache and Silk Ribbons, Bound in LeatherFrom the Collection of the American Sephardi Federation On display through November 3rd Hungarian Jews stranded in Morocco during World War II created this lavish thank-you note for Lorna Gascoigne (1887-1979), the second wife of Alvary Douglas Frederick Trench-Gascoigne (1893-1970), the wartime British consul-general at Tangiers. Lorna was…

cjh-blog-admin October 30, 2014

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