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…