Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!Detective fiction from the Partner Collectionsby Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Center for Jewish History “My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.” –from “The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes” (1892) May 22, 1859 was the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes: the most celebrated sleuth…
“But the wild things cried, ‘Oh please don’t go—We’ll eat you up—we love you so!’” —Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) Remembering Maurice Sendakby Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Center for Jewish History Maurice Sendak passed away yesterday, May 8, in Danbury, CT. The legendary children’s author was a born and bred New Yorker, with his Polish-Jewish family hailing from Brooklyn. He was the recipient…
Happy Birthday, Dokter Seuss!by Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Center for Jewish History March 2, 2012 would have been the 108th birthday of the venerable cartoonist and children’s book author, Doctor Seuss. While Dr. Seuss was not Jewish, his books have a universal appeal that resonates with children (and adults) of all religions and cultures. His political cartoons were among the first…
Title page from an 1894 version of David Copperfield published in Vilna. Dickens was frequently published in serial form; this is part four of the novel. “Tsarles Dikens” in the Collectionsby Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Center for Jewish History Today marks the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens’s birthday, and in the spirit of the day, the reference desk at the Center did some…