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Jewish Heritage Month

Exploring Finding Aids

by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History

As a continuation of the series dedicated to digging deeper into the collections here at the Center in honor of Jewish Heritage Month, I’m going to explore finding aids and other tools that can help demystify archival research.  

Often, I refer to the finding aid of a…

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Using Family History Databases to Trace Your Roots
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History

In honor of Jewish Heritage Month, I am embarking on a small series of posts that expand on different ways of exploring and digging deeper into the collections here at the Center. This post discusses the Family History Databases currently…

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Celebrating Jewish Heritage

In honor of Jewish Heritage Month (May), this blog will feature special notes on resources provided by the Center for Jewish History and its partners that you can use to discover more about your genealogy, the history of the Jewish communities in your ancestral towns, Jewish engagement with the arts, and aspects of rich traditions surrounding both religious rituals and cultural identities. The resources you’ll…

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