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Celebrating Archives
by Susan Woodland, Senior Archivist, American Jewish Historical Society

October is Archives Month, and the archives community in metropolitan New York celebrated the week of October 7th with an extensive list of repository tours, programs, exhibits, a symposium on Disaster Recovery inspired by last fall’s superstorm Sandy, and an award ceremony. See the website of the Archivists Roundtable…

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Out of the Archives: Birthday Card for a “Wanderer”
by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History 

This birthday card, found in the Leo Baeck Institute’s Margaret Rothenberger Family Collection (AR 25465), is part of a scrapbook documenting the Rothenberger family’s two years in France, 1933-1935, after they fled Germany and before they immigrated to the United States.  

It…

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Out of the Archives: “File Problems” in Tunis (1983)
by Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History

This letter from the Tunis office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC, or “the Joint”) is in response to a records management survey questionnaire. It describes the “file problems” encountered by the office staff there: A swift kick, a few choice…

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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…

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