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Fascists Get the Boot

“Fascists Get the Boot!”: A Hebrew cartoon from 1943!

Karikatūrah
Mipaām
קָרִיקָטוּרָה מִפַּעַם

Today’s cartoon in Hebrew first appeared on August 6, 1943 in the
newspaper Al Hamishmar, accompanying an article about the overthrow of
Mussolini. This newspaper and others are made available online by the National
Library of Israel on the website Historical Jewish Press –…

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Tracing the Past: Deciphering Handwriting in Yiddish and Hebrew

By J.D. Arden, Reference Services Librarian, Genealogy Specialist, Center for Jewish History

Here at the
Center for Jewish History in the Ackman and Ziff Family
Genealogy Institute
, researchers in genealogy often
discover or bring in old postcards, letters, manuscripts or vital statistics
records. These old documents are notoriously difficult to read! Some are in
Yiddish,…

Shared Sorrow, Shared Survival: International Romani Day at the Center for Jewish History

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By J.D. Arden, M.L.I.S., Reference Services Librarian, Genealogy Specialist, Center for Jewish History 

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Image: Street Scene [Bucharest]

Collection of  Leo Baeck Institute

http://access.cjh.org/867447

Wednesday, April 8th is International Romani Day,celebrating and raising awareness of the Romani people, an ethnic minority with
roots in Northern India who, like the Jewish…

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