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Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

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

Today marks seventy years since the attack on Pearl Harbor, the event that hurled America into the Second World War. 

According to the Encyclopedia Judaica, Jews’ service to the United States armed forces started with militia duty during the Colonial era. “A considerable number of Jews volunteered for the…

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