Michelle McCarthy,
\nM.S.L.I.S., Reference Services Assistant, Center for Jewish History<\/b><\/p>\n
On As Kathryn In \u00a0Yohanan Gary The Impossible Exile: These Michelle McCarthy, M.S.L.I.S., Reference Services Assistant, Center for Jewish History On Wednesday, March 11th, the 64th Annual Jewish Book Awards for 2014 were held at the Center for Jewish History. The awards are distributed each year in 15 categories by the Jewish Book Council to promote the \u201creading, writing, and publishing of modern Jewish content in American literature.\u201d These categories encompass a strong variety…<\/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":[19,221,6,409,408],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-archives","tag-books","tag-libraries","tag-michelle-mccarthy","tag-research-and-refernece-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","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=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cjh.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWednesday, March 11th<\/sup>, the 64th<\/sup> Annual Jewish Book Awards
\nfor 2014 were held at the Center for Jewish History. The awards are distributed
\neach year in 15 categories by the Jewish Book Council to promote the \u201creading,
\nwriting, and publishing of modern Jewish content in American literature.\u201d These
\ncategories encompass a strong variety of subjects, including modern Jewish
\nthought and experience, women’s studies, biography, Sephardic studies, and
\nyoung adult literature. \u00a0More information
\non the Jewish Book Council can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\na major resource center for documentary history, the Center for Jewish History
\nand collections from its five partners, the American Jewish Historical Society,
\nthe American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, YIVO Institute for
\nJewish Research, and the Yeshiva University Museum, have played an integral
\npart in supporting the collective memory presented in many of the celebrated
\ngenres:<\/p>\n
\nHellerstein was awarded the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women’s Studies for her
\nwork, A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in
\nYiddish, 1586-1987<\/i>. \u00a0Hellerstein
\nprovides a study of Yidishe Dikherins:
\nAntologye <\/i>(Yiddish Women Poets: Anthology), written by Ezra Korman and
\npublished in 1928, she discusses the poets, their work, and their relationship
\nto tradition in Yiddish poetry. Hellerstein worked with the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern
\nEurope<\/a>,
\nthe YIVO Bleter, and archival resources from the YIVO Ethnographic Commission<\/a>. Other material
\ndrawn from the YIVO archival collections included the Ezra Korman papers, the
\nMalka Heifatz Tussman archives, and the Anna Margolin archives.<\/p>\n
\nSephardic studies, Julia
\nPhillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein were awarded the Mimi S. Frank Award in
\nSephardic Culture for their editing work on, Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950<\/i>. This publication
\nprovides an extensive collection of documents relating to various aspects of Sephardic
\nhistory. Using primary materials from YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Cohen
\nand Stein provide an in-depth compilation of experiences in the everyday life
\nof the Sephardim and during historical events in Europe and America over the
\ncourse of five centuries. Randall C. Belinfante, Librarian of the American Sephardi
\nFederation, provides a richly articulate review for the work here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nPetrovsky-Shtern, <\/i>author of The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish
\nLife in East Europe<\/i>, was awarded the <\/i>Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award
\n<\/i>in History. Petrovsky-Shtern
\nseeks to remedy the historically idealized concepts of shtetl life. \u00a0He argues that these communities saw a golden
\nage
\nthat was thriving and had a vibrant Jewish culture before the mid-nineteenth
\ncentury. Petrovsky-Shtern studied essays such as “The ‘Vilna Shas’ and East
\nEuropean Jewry,” by Michael Stanislawski from Printing the Talmud:
\nBomberg to Schottenstein<\/a>,
\npublished by the Yeshiva University Museum in 2005, to illuminate book-printing
\nactivities of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe during the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n
\nPhillip Zola was named a finalist in the History category for his work, We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and
\nAmerican Jewry, A Documentary History<\/i>. Zola gives historical insight into
\nthe relationship between Abraham Lincoln and American Jews in the
\nmid-nineteenth century. Through photographs, correspondence, and newspaper
\naccounts, Zola shows a connection between President Lincoln and Jewish
\ncommunity leaders in the Northern and Southern states before and during his
\npresidency. To accurately illustrate this history, Zola used selected issues of
\nthe Publications of the American Jewish
\nHistorical Society<\/i> as well as the Board of Delegates of American Israelites
\nMinutes Book, 1859-1870, held by AJHS. This material has been digitized and can
\nbe accessed by clicking on the links in the finding aid<\/a> to the collection.<\/p>\n
\nStefan Zweig at the End of the World<\/i>, by George Prochnik, was celebrated as
\nwinner of the Krauss Family Award in Biography,
\nAutobiography, and Memoir. This biographical work follows the life of Stefan
\nZweig, one of the most controversial and widely translated authors of the
\ntwentieth century. Prochnik cites Joseph Leftwich’s study, “Stefan Zweig
\nand the World of Yesterday,” published in the third volume of the Leo
\nBaeck Institute yearbook in 1958, while reflecting upon Zweig’s feelings about
\nJews that remain in Germany. It provides an honest look into Zweig’s life in
\nexile as well as Zweig’s sentiments towards Zionism, the Nazi Regime, and the
\nidentity of twentieth century Jews as a people.<\/p>\n
\nare just a few examples of how the partner collections at the Center for Jewish
\nHistory have made lasting contributions to modern Jewish scholarship. The Center
\nis proud to serve the modern research community and to preserve a rich history for
\nfuture generations. Our online catalog is available here: search.cjh.org<\/a>. More
\ninformation on the Lillian Goldman Reading Room, including hours and policies,
\ncan be found here: http:\/\/www.cjh.org\/p\/33<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"