Rose Schneiderman (center) with Eleanor Roosevelt and David Dubinsky, 1938. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Link. Rose Schneiderman: The Red Rose of Anarchyby Anna Khomina, Research and Special Projects Intern, Center for Jewish HistoryA public speaker, union leader, and political adviser, Rose Schneiderman devoted her life to fighting for working class rights. Active from 1904 through the 1950s, Schneiderman was forced to drop out of…
Happy (Belated) Birthday, Emma Goldman!by Melanie J. Meyers, Senior Reference Services Librarian, Center for Jewish History “No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.” –Emma Goldman Emma Goldman was an influential political thinker, anarchist and feminist. She was born on June 27, 1869 to an orthodox Jewish family in Kovno, Russia, in what is…
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History In cities across Russia, Victory in Europe (V-E) parades are commemorating the 67th anniversary of the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany. The event was also recently observed in the United Kingdom, France and Washington D.C., among other places. Three months after the last German troops formally…
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History Boy in corn field, Woodbine, New Jersey (ca. 1900)American Jewish Historical Society. Click here for more information. In celebration of Earth Day, I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on the spectrum of Jewish thoughts on the environment. Simply looking at the bibliography and external links in the Wikipedia article…
Selections from Yingl tsingl khvat by Mani Leib, illustrated by El Lissitzky.Yingl tsingl khvat images from YIVO microfilm printout 00004383. From the Norton Jewish American Literature Anthology: “The most famous of [Mani Leib’s] ballads was Yingl tsingl khvat, a narrative about a boy who, stuck in the shtetl mud, persuades a nobleman to give him the magic ring and flying horse that allow him to escape…