From the partners’ collections: Food will win the War Medium: PosterDate: 1918Persistent URL: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=367343Repository: Yeshiva University MuseumCall Number: 1998.613Rights statement: Click here. Visit our Flickr photostream for more from the partners’ collections.
From the partners’ collections: Meditacion Cosmica Artist: Leonardo Nierman Medium:painting: acrylic on masonite Date:1978-1979 Persistent URL: museums.cjh.org/Display.php?irn=7825 Repository: Yeshiva University Museum Accession number: 1987.034 Rights statement: Click here. Visit our Flickr photostream for more from the partners’ collections.
From the partners’ collections: The Golden City/Upper Galilee Description: Landscape. Camels lower left, yellow buildings top center, surrounded by green; inscribed reverse: “Ruth Bamberger with Love for Kathrin”Artist: Bamberger, Ruth, 1906-1976Medium: Painting, oil on canvasDate: 1969Persistent URL: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=413013Repository: The Kathryn Yochelson Collection Yeshiva University MuseumAccession number: 2001.396Rights statement: Click here. Visit our Flickr photostream for more from the partners’ collections.
From the partners’ collections: New Colony by Reuven Rubin, Israel 1929 Creator/Photographer: Rubin, Reuven, 1893-1974Medium: PaintingDate: 1929Persistent URL: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=367340Repository: Yeshiva University MuseumCall Number: 1986.138Rights statement: Click here. Visit our Flickr photostream for more from the partners’ collections. YU Museum Shares: REUVEN RUBIN’S EARLY TEL AVIV REVIEW This picture depicts Tel Aviv just a few years—seemingly moments—after its founding in the early 20th century. One…
yumuseum: MLK “A true brotherhood of man … in our nation” In June 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. answered a letter from Paula Pappenheim drawing similarities between the struggle for freedom and equality for African Americans and Jews. King entreated Pappenheim to join the struggle to inspire a spirit of connection and humanity among all Americans, if not throughout the world. Letter from…
From the partners’ collections: An Idyl Creator: Meir Gur-Arie and L. ZeidmanDate: 1933Medium: printedPersistent URL: http://museums.cjh.org/Display.php?irn=14336Repository: Yeshiva University MuseumAccession number: 2005.141Rights statement: Click here. Visit our Flickr photostream for more from the partners’ collections.
by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History Hanukkah Lamp. Galicia or Ukraine, ca. 1800. Silver: cast, filigree, engraved. The Max Stern Collection, Yeshiva University Museum. This lamp is of the Ba’al Shem Tov type, named after the founder of Hasidism, who, tradition tells us, owned a Hanukkah lamp of this type. This made it very popular in the…
Chaim Gross (1901-1991), Watercolor, New York, 1958Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, Gift of Charles Frost Happy Hanukkah from the Center for Jewish History!
From the partners’ collections: The Great Council of the Jews in Hungaria 1650 Artist: unknownDate: 1683Medium: woodcutPersistent URL: http://museums.cjh.org/Display.php?irn=16888Repository: Yeshiva University MuseumAccession number: 2008.112Rights Statement: Click here. Visit our Flickr photostream for more from the partners’ collections.
by David P. Rosenberg, Senior Reference Librarian – Collections, Center for Jewish History Many things come to the minds of Americans when they think of Abraham Lincoln: the story of the apple tree and the nickname “honest Abe,” the address at Gettysburg, the Emancipation Proclamation. One thing that may not immediately come to mind is the fight for religious freedom that Lincoln fought amidst…