Browsing tag

jewish history

Blog Post

A Holocaust Before The Holocaust: Elias Tsherikover and the Pogroms in Civil War Ukraine

By Alexander Maro, CJH-NYU Dissertation Completion Fellowship A Holocaust Before The Holocaust: Elias Tsherikover and the Pogroms in Civil War Ukraine On a cold winter afternoon in February 1919, several hundred soldiers descended upon the Jewish neighborhoods of the small Ukrainian city of Proskuriv (today Khmel’nyts’kyi, Ukraine). Ten days earlier, Symon Petliura, head of the short-lived Ukrainian People’s Republic, had dispatched to the border city nearly…

Center for Jewish History
Center for Jewish History
Blog Post

The American Nazi Party’s Abduction of a Jewish Boy in 1961

By Andrew Sperling, Leon Levy Fellow The American Nazi Party’s Abduction of a Jewish Boy in 1961 On a humid summer’s night in July 1961, thirteen-year-old Ricky Farber and his friends bounced around their suburban neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia. There, they stumbled upon an odd and frightening house draped in massive Nazi battle flags. What happened next would be a source of contention: Farber and…

Center for Jewish History
Center for Jewish History
Blog Post

A Survivors’ Haggadah

By Lauren Gilbert, Senior Manager for Public Services, Center for Jewish History A Survivors’ Haggadah “And the khaki-clad sons of Israel commanded by Lt. General Truscott gathered together as was the custom in Israel, to celebrate the Passover festival.” So begins the preamble to the so-called Survivors’ Haggadah (left), published for the first Passover after Liberation by the U.S. Army of Occupation in Bavaria,…

Center for Jewish History
Center for Jewish History
Blog Post

Yiddish Wall Newspapers

Yiddish Wall Newspapers “Wall newspapers”—large, hand-lettered or typed newsletters posted in a shared communal space—have their roots in Soviet propaganda. Among the rich historical resources available through the Center for Jewish History’s digital collections are wall newspapers that form a portion of YIVO’s Displaced Persons Camps and Centers Poster Collection, RG 294.6. Created in the aftermath of World War II, these fragile documents provide…

Center for Jewish History
Center for Jewish History
Load more