Remembering Kristallnachtby David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History November 9th -10th marks the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a series of attacks on Jews in Germany and Austria that was a turning point for the Nazi Party. Kristallnacht is often looked at as the beginning of the Holocaust. Each of the five partners of the Center for Jewish History has material on Kristallnacht or…
Conducting Research on Jewish Fighters, WWIIWith a Focus on Ukraine, Belarus and Russiaby J.D. Arden, Reference Services Assistantwith assistance from Aurora Zinder, Volunteer, and David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History Above image: Kniga Pamiati Voinov-Evreev and Biographical Dictionary of Jewish Resistance In the Lillian Goldman Reading Room here at the Center for Jewish History, you can explore Hebrew-language…
An Archive of My OwnOctober 2 – November 9, 2013 Meet the artist, Nino Biniashvili, on Sunday, October 6 from 12pm to 6pm. In An Archive of My Own, Nino Biniashvili commits acts of artistic recovery. She rescues rare archival materials from obscurity and transforms them into compelling art exploring Georgian-Jewish experience. In an exhibition that challenges traditional methods of history-making, Ms. Biniashvili brings history home. She…
by Sarah Ganton, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History The ways in which we preserve history for future generations are particularly relevant during holiday seasons, when we remember traditions and objects that mark special days. We might save our grandmother’s menorah, or pass down the secret family recipe for hamentashen. The yearly Sukkah is, of course, too big to save for future generations,…
by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History This post is part of the Jews and Social Justice Series. To view all posts in the series, click here. At the same time that they were coordinating post-war refugee relief in Europe, Jewish Labor Committee members began to take an active role in supporting African-American-led efforts to advocate for civil rights legislation. According to…
Profiles of select Jewish organizations from the second half of the 20th centuryby Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History In March 2012, the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the American Jewish Historical Society, partner organizations of the Center for Jewish History, co-hosted a two-day symposium on “Jews and the Left” featuring scholars from many different fields to discuss the…
NYT: Jewish Identity, Spelled in Yiddish Modern Yiddish transliteration was created by early-20th-century scholars who saw Judaism as a nationality based on language and were fighting rising anti-Semitism. The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is one of the five partners of the Center for Jewish History.
“Knaidel” is the Winning Wordby David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History Perhaps you heard that a Yiddish word won the National Spelling Bee for Arvind Mahankali. Yes, knaidel is spelled K-n-a-i-d-e-l according to Webster’s Third New International Dictionary–the official dictionary of the National Spelling Bee. As you may know, Yiddish is a fusion language of principally German, Hebrew…
Professor Devin Naar was recently named to the Center for Jewish History’s Academic Advisory Council. This interview with him was originally published on StroumJewishStudies.org, the website for the Stroum Jewish Studies Program at the University of Washington, and is reposted here with permission. ———— Telling Untold Stories: Sephardic Jews & the Holocaust Prof. Devin Naar, whose interest in Sephardic Holocaust history led him on…
Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19, 1943)On its Seventieth Anniversaryby David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History In April of 1943, news of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising reached the Vilna Ghetto, and Hirsh Glick wrote the song “Zog Nit Keyn Mol”(“Never Say”). It soon spread not only throughout the Vilna Ghetto, but also to other ghettos and concentration…