By Steven Trebach, Research Intern
I am a Research Intern at the Center for Jewish History
(CJH) and a recent graduate of Haverford College. My original goal was to
research dual loyalty, which led me to documents concerning the American
Council for Judaism (ACJ) within the Center’s Partner’s collections,
particularly the American Jewish Historical Society. In the mid-20th…
By Josh Daniels, Former Research Intern
Josh
Daniels is writing a two-part series of blog posts on the intellectual foundations
of Reform Judaism. See his first post here.
Once Reform
Judaism began to spread to America, it encountered a very different environment
than the one it came from back in Germany.
Politically, the American Constitution…
By Josh Daniels, Former Research Intern
Growing up in a secular household,
I had only a loose connection to the religion of Judaism. I attended Hebrew school twice a week for
five years, and studied eight months independently for my bar mitzvah. I attended High Holiday services throughout
my high school years, and ended up all but renounced my religious identity…
You might not expect a 95 year old literature professor to
emphasize youth when discussing his life. But that is exactly how Justus
Rosenberg described his upcoming talk at the Center for Jewish History to me.
“I will do it from the perspective of a teenager…it is for
someone like you.”
Next…
Seventy years ago, on July 22, 1946, the bombing of the King
David Hotel occurred in Mandatory Palestine. The Irgun Zvai Leumi (Irgun), a
group that played a key role in the Jewish underground, orchestrated the attack
in response to a day known as “Black Sabbath,” June 29, 1946, when British
officials arrested nearly 3,000…