By Emily Burack, Research Intern Bruce Hoffman’s Anonymous Soldiers is a comprehensive study of the Jewish underground during Mandatory Palestine. The book won the National Jewish Book Award Prize for Jewish Book of the Year, and it is well deserving of that title. Hoffman, a professor whose expertise is rooted in terrorism studies, approaches the story of the Jewish underground with a fine analytical…
by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History This post is part of the Jews and Social Justice Series. To view all posts in the series, click here. Since Israel’s emergence as an independent Jewish state, there have been few organizations to come out of Jewish communities in the United States that openly challenge Zionism or modern-day Jewish nationalism. Some ultra-Orthodox Jews, such…
In Memory of Rabbi Ovadia Yosefby David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History Above image: President Reagan with Ovadia Yosef, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel. Early 1980s. AMIT records, I-521, from the collections of the American Jewish Historical Society. The partner organizations of the Center for Jewish History have many works penned by Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, including: Sefer Ḥazon ʻOvadyah : Yom ṭov. Yerushalayim : Mekhon “Maʼor…
by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History This post is part of the Jews and Social Justice Series. To view all posts in the series, click here. At the same time that they were coordinating post-war refugee relief in Europe, Jewish Labor Committee members began to take an active role in supporting African-American-led efforts to advocate for civil rights legislation. According to…