A digitized page from Jewish Cookery Book by Mrs. Esther Levy. Image from the Library of Congress. Cookbooks of the Collections: An Introductionby Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Center for Jewish History The scholarly importance of food studies has exploded as more and more special collections and libraries recognize the value of cookbooks and other such items. Scholars in a multitude of disciplines—history, women’s…
From the partners’ collections: Brooklyn Bridge by Hermann Struck Description: Amerika, Zwanzig Radierungen, von Hermann StruckRead the entire bookCreator: Struck, Hermann, 1876-1944Creator: Holitscher, Arthur, 1869-1941Object Origin: BerlinMedium: Artists’ booksDate: 1922Call Number: r (f) NE 654 S8 A4Persistent URL: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=148073Repository: Leo Baeck InstituteRights statement: Click here. Visit our Flickr photostream for more from the partners’ collections.
by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History Hanukkah Lamp. Galicia or Ukraine, ca. 1800. Silver: cast, filigree, engraved. The Max Stern Collection, Yeshiva University Museum. This lamp is of the Ba’al Shem Tov type, named after the founder of Hasidism, who, tradition tells us, owned a Hanukkah lamp of this type. This made it very popular in the…
by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History Many things come to the minds of Americans when they think of Abraham Lincoln: the story of the apple tree and the nickname “honest Abe,” the address at Gettysburg, the Emancipation Proclamation. One thing that may not immediately come to mind is the fight for religious freedom that Lincoln fought amidst…