Out of the Archives: From Labor to Justice
by Rachel C. Miller, Senior Project Archivist, Center for Jewish History
The quotidian cross-out on this letterhead represents a pivotal moment in U.S. immigration history, when, following the outbreak of war in Europe, the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration deemed immigration a security concern over an economic one and transferred the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from…
Telegram. Nahum Goldmann to Leo Baeck (misspelled in address line). AR 5890, Council of Jews from Germany Collection, Box 5, Folder 11, October 1953. Leo Baeck Institute.
Out of the Archives: Council of Jews from Germany Records
by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History
Here in the Shelby White & Leon Levy Archival Processing Laboratory at the Center, we…
Out of the Archives: The Palestine Pound (1948-1952)
by Rachel Tutera, Project Archivist, Center for Jewish History
This Palestine Pound was found within the Samuel J. Citron Papers, a collection currently being processed for the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History. Born in Poland in 1908, Dr. Citron immigrated to the United States at approximately 13 years old. He studied…
by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History
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Excerpt from Genealogy of the Benda family (AR 10226), Leo Baeck Institute
Genealogists doing research at the Center for Jewish History can access plenty of resources, from the wealth of information available at the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute to the electronic research guides…