By Reuben Keller, Past Research Intern
I was a summer Research Intern at the Center for Jewish
History from June to August 2016. This blog post is intended to talk about what I was doing and the really interesting materials
I worked with.
The focus of my project is a number of rare books donated by
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Image: Courtesy of Leo Baeck Institute
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…