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Today in History: King David Hotel Bombing

By Emily Burack, Research Intern

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…

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2015 Center for Jewish History Lapidus Summer Fellow Charles McDonald Interviewed by Radio Sefarad

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…

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Highlight from Recently Digitized American Soviet Jewry Movement Collections: Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry Records—Travel to the USSR—Visiting Jewish Refuseniks in the Soviet Union

by Andrey Filimonov

View digital materials online at http://digital.cjh.org/2658842

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Folder with information for the American Soviet Jewry movement activists traveling to meet Jews in the Soviet Union. Seattle Action for Soviet Jewry Records, I-507, American Jewish Historical Society 

Thanks to generous support from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (NHPRC), the Center…

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