Israel. Black and white photograph. Albert Salomon Collection, Leo Baeck Institute.
In celebration of Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel Independence Day):two books and an archival collection, relating to Israel,from each of our five partners.compiled by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish HistoryAmerican Jewish Historical Society:
An Introduction to Researching the First Zionist Congress at the Center for Jewish History
120 years ago, on August 29, 1987, Theodor Herzl convened the first
Zionist Congress in the city of Basel with 200 participants from 17 countries.
“If I were to sum up the Basel Congress in a single phrase—which I
would not dare to make public—I would say:…
Seventy years ago, on July 22, 1946, the bombing of the King
David Hotel occurred in Mandatory Palestine. The Irgun Zvai Leumi (Irgun), a
group that played a key role in the Jewish underground, orchestrated the attack
in response to a day known as “Black Sabbath,” June 29, 1946, when British
officials arrested nearly 3,000…
