Celebrating Archivesby 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 of Metropolitan New York (ART)…
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 was created by…
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 words in Arabic,…
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 Recordsby Kevin Schlottmann, Levy Processing Archivist, Center for Jewish History Here in the Shelby White & Leon Levy Archival Processing Laboratory at the Center, we occasionally work with…
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 at…