In honor of Labor Day: select material pertaining to Samuel Gompers in the partner collections
Compiled by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History
“The fact that organized labor as it exists in the late twentieth century is largely the product of the A[merican]F[ederation] of L[abor] and its leaders obscures the federation’s recent and inauspicious beginnings….
Rose Schneiderman (center) with Eleanor Roosevelt and David Dubinsky, 1938. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Link.
Rose Schneiderman: The Red Rose of Anarchy
by Anna Khomina, Research and Special Projects Intern, Center for Jewish History
A public speaker, union leader, and political adviser, Rose Schneiderman devoted her life to fighting for working class rights. Active from 1904 through the…
Happy Birthday, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!
Detective fiction from the Partner Collections
by Melanie J. Meyers, M.S., Senior Reference Librarian, Center for Jewish History
“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.” –from “The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes” (1892)
May 22, 1859 was the birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes: the most…
In Honor of Yom Yerushalayim: five selections concerning Jerusalem from each of the five partners.
Compiled by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History
Yom Yerushalayim commemorates the reunification of Jerusalem and Israeli control over the Old City. The victory in the Six-Day War resulted in the first time Jews took control of the city since the destruction…