LBI Archivist in the New York Times Caring for Albert Einstein’s childhood teacup or Meyer Lansky’s marriage certificate, archivists in New York are assuming a higher profile and doing more networking. This NYT article features archivist Michael Simonson of the Leo Baeck Institute, one of the 5 partners here at the Center for Jewish History.
Out of the ArchivesPrioritiesby Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History The first image above is a letter of reference written for Ernst Fleischmann upon his leaving the position of head chemist for BMW’s airplane engine division. He left voluntarily for the United States in 1935 as conditions for Jews in Germany were worsening. The second image is the United States patent…
Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19, 1943)On its Seventieth Anniversaryby David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History In April of 1943, news of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising reached the Vilna Ghetto, and Hirsh Glick wrote the song “Zog Nit Keyn Mol”(“Never Say”). It soon spread not only throughout the Vilna Ghetto, but also to other ghettos and concentration…
Women in HistoryNobel Prize Winnersby David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History I recently researched women with Jewish roots who have won the Nobel Prize. Seven people hold the distinction in a range of topics from medicine to chemistry to literature: Gerty Cori was the third woman, and the first American woman, to win the prize when she won for…
Costumed group in Brno (Czech Republic). Date unknown. Leo Baeck Institute. For more, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.Click here to connect with the Center for Jewish History on Facebook.
Purim celebration at the Juedische Schule Soest. circa 1929. Leo Baeck Institute. For more, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.Click here to connect with the Center for Jewish History on Facebook.
Purim parade, and children at Purim, at the Ahawah Orphanage in Berlin. 1938. Leo Beck Institute Collections. For more, visit the Center for Jewish History’s Flickr photostream.Click here to connect with the Center for Jewish History on Facebook.
Out of the Archives: Calendar Artsubmitted 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]. To conduct your own search of the collections,…
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Jews: Part Twoby Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History Official Presidential portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1947. by Frank O. Salisbury. Continued from part one: Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1935-1945 (available here at the Center for Jewish History) brings to light the writings of James McDonald (the…
Out of the Archives: “A Love Story in One Act” (October 1944)Submitted by Leanora Lange, Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History Just in time for Valentine’s Day, this “Love Story in One Act” was discovered among pages of correspondence in the freshly-processed Lucie Blau Family Collection (Leo Baeck Institute).