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Susan Woodland

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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From the Collections: Jewish Nurses

by Susan Woodland, Senior Archivist, American Jewish Historical Society

Jenna Weissman Joselit recently wrote a thoughtful column in The Jewish Daily Forward entitled, “Where Have All the Nurses Gone? Jews Flocked to Every Helping Profession But One.“

The column ruminates on nurses, why there have always been so few Jewish nurses, and the importance of Jewish nurses in the professional life of…

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