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By James Benjamin Nadel, Communications Outreach Associate
As the summer ends, and opportunities to explore the great outdoors grow fewer, I wanted to draw attention to the little discussed history of Jewish hiking organizations. Several of these youth groups existed in pre-World War II Europe, but one stands out in particular for…
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…
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…
The extensive interview is about Jewish conversion and citizenship in contemporary Spain and can be found here.
The Center for Jewish History creates opportunities for scholars to immerse themselves in explorations of the primary source materials preserved within its walls.
For the past 13 years, the Center’s Fellowship Program has offered financial support to a diverse group of more than 60 humanities…