{"id":1248,"date":"2017-08-14T13:57:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T13:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/14\/presidents-welcome\/"},"modified":"2017-08-14T13:57:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T13:57:29","slug":"presidents-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/14\/presidents-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"President\u2019s Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"

By David Myers,<\/a> President\/CEO of the Center for Jewish History<\/p>\n

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The final song of the smash Broadway hit Hamilton <\/i>asks with great poignancy: \u201cWho will tell
\nyour story?\u201d The line is a telling
\nreminder that those who lack power or fail to live long enough, such as
\nAlexander Hamilton, often don\u2019t get to leave behind their own version of the
\npast. <\/p>\n

The task of the Center
\nfor Jewish History is to guarantee that the story of Jewish history will be
\ntold. \u00a0That\u2019s why I came to the Center as
\nPresident\/CEO. I had spent my entire
\ntwenty-five year career teaching Jewish history at UCLA, where I had the
\nopportunity to expose students to the fascinating journey of the Jews
\nthroughout history.<\/p>\n

And yet, it is at the
\nCenter that the story of the Jewish past is written. It is here that the
\nunparalleled archival resources of our distinguished Partners\u2014
\nAmerican Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi
\nFederation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute
\nfor Jewish Research\u2014can be found. It is here that scholars come from around the
\nworld craft those archival documents into first-rate research. \u00a0And it is here that we translate the work of
\nhistorians into meaningful public programs available to wide audiences.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I came
\nto the Center for Jewish History: to work with our wonderful professional staff
\nand Partners to ensure that the story of Jewish history continues to be written.
\nThis is a story of stunning cultural vibrancy and achievement, as well as of
\npersecution and murderous assault. We
\nmust tell the story of vitality and, alas, of tragedy. And we must tell the
\nstory of the daily lives of Jews that stretches from Cairo to Chicago to Cochin. <\/p>\n

The ancient Jewish
\nsages reminded us that we are not obligated to complete the task. \u00a0But neither, we might add, are we permitted
\nto break the chain of historical transmission.
\nThe story of the Jews\u2019 march through history is compelling and relevant to all, Jews and non-Jews, young and old. \u00a0<\/p>\n

And so, in response to Lin Manuel Miranda\u2019s final
\nquestion in Hamilton<\/i>, we answer that the Center for Jewish History will
\ntell the story. \u00a0This is our
\nmission. I invite you to join in this seminal
\nwork by donating to the Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By David Myers, President\/CEO of the Center for Jewish History The final song of the smash Broadway hit Hamilton asks with great poignancy: \u201cWho will tell your story?\u201d The line is a telling reminder that those who lack power or fail to live long enough, such as Alexander Hamilton, often don\u2019t get to leave behind their own version of the past. The task of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,97,8,9,98],"class_list":["post-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-center-for-jewish-history","tag-hamilton","tag-history","tag-jewish-history","tag-legacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}