By Lauren Gilbert, Director of Public Services “A Virtuous, Honest, Industrious, and Injured Foreigner”: The Case of Henry Simons All publications referenced in this post can be found in the Sid Lapidus Collection of Early Modern Judaica at the Center for Jewish History. In August of 1751, a Polish Jewish peddler named Henry Simons traveled to England carrying 554 ducats that had been entrusted…
By Reuben Keller, Past Research Intern I was a summer Research Intern at the Center for Jewish History from June to August 2016. This blog post is intended to talk about what I was doing and the really interesting materials I worked with. The focus of my project is a number of rare books donated by Sidney Lapidus to the Center for Jewish History….
Bagged Sobel Collection books in the American Jewish Historical Society stacks. The Sobel collection of early American Jewish printing was donated by the late Morris Sobel, former president of the American Jewish Historical Society, and his wife, Eleanor. Here in the Werner J. and Gisella Levi Cahnman Conservation Laboratory we aim to prolong the life of the Center’s extensive paper-based collections. Flattening, cleaning and…
New at the Center for Jewish HistoryOpening Sunday, October 6, 2013 The David Berg Rare Book Room is a new state-of-the-art space presenting exhibitions and collections of rare books, first editions, illuminated manuscripts and letters dating back hundreds of years. It provides for the first time a shared exhibition space for the Center partners’ treasures. Visitors can virtually turn the pages of digitized volumes…
All images: Collection of Yeshiva University Museum Shana Tova! The start of this year marks a new beginning for us here at the Center for a Jewish History. We’re opening the new David Berg Rare Book Room to showcase treasures from the collections of our five partners, launching a program season packed with everything from concerts to symposia, and embarking on an exploration of the Jewish community of…
