Purim celebration at the Juedische Schule Soest. circa 1929. Leo Baeck Institute.
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Purim parade, and children at Purim, at the Ahawah Orphanage in Berlin. 1938. Leo Beck Institute Collections.
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Out of the Archives: Calendar Art
submitted by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History
This hand-drawn calendar card is from February 1920. The artist is Lucie Ritter Marcus (1895-1967), wife of German-Jewish lawyer Ernst Marcus. More information about the Marcuses can be found in the Leo Baeck Institute’s Ernst Marcus (Breslau) Collection, [AR 25006].
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Jews: Part Two
by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
Official Presidential portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1947. by Frank O. Salisbury.
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