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…