{"id":1288,"date":"2016-10-13T22:51:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T22:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjhblog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/13\/stories-from-the-collections-former-ajhs\/"},"modified":"2016-10-13T22:51:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T22:51:33","slug":"stories-from-the-collections-former-ajhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/2016\/10\/13\/stories-from-the-collections-former-ajhs\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories from the Collections: Former AJHS Executive Director on the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement and finding his Bar Mitzvah twin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><i>In celebration of Archives Week 2016, Center and partner<br \/>\nstaff collected and recorded stories about the collections and services at the<br \/>\nCenter and its partners. If you have ever wondered why archives matter and how<br \/>\narchives can change lives, just have a listen.<\/i><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-embed tmblr-full\"><\/figure>\n<p>In this recording, archivists Andrey Filimonov and Leanora<br \/>\nLange of the Center for Jewish History talk with Evan Kingsley about his<br \/>\nexperience growing up in South Florida, a community active in the American<br \/>\nSoviet Jewry Movement, and how Andrey helped him reconnect with his Bar Mitzvah<br \/>\ntwin through the Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement at the American<br \/>\nJewish Historical Society. More about the American Jewish Historical Society\u2019s<br \/>\nArchive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajhs.org\/aasjm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ajhs.org\/aasjm<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of Archives Week 2016, Center and partner staff collected and recorded stories about the collections and services at the Center and its partners. If you have ever wondered why archives matter and how archives can change lives, just have a listen. In this recording, archivists Andrey Filimonov and Leanora Lange of the Center for Jewish History talk with Evan Kingsley about his&#8230;<\/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":[44,75,185,76,19,197,199,80,38,128],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-ajhs-collections","tag-american-jewish-historical-society","tag-american-jewish-historical-society-collections","tag-american-soviet-jewry-movement","tag-archives","tag-archivesweek","tag-bar-mitzvah","tag-movement-to-free-soviet-jewry","tag-out-of-the-archives","tag-soviet-jewry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","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=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}