June 2013
5 posts
NYT: Jewish Identity, Spelled in Yiddish →
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Modern Yiddish transliteration was created by early-20th-century scholars who saw Judaism as a nationality based on language and were fighting rising anti-Semitism.
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is one of the five partners of the Center for Jewish History.
May 2013
13 posts
Wonderful research project (using archives housed at the Center for Jewish History) turned into film. →
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Aspirin. Nobel Prizes. Flintstones vitamins. Slavery. War crimes. Mass murder. A brilliant company that made a killing. Literally.
Click on the above link to learn more about A Deal with the Devil—How I.G. Farben Turned Good Into Evil.
Join the 16th Street book club!
All book club sessions are free and open to the public. Please try to bring your books or e-reading devices with you. RSVPs recommended: mhaier@cjh.org.
Center for Jewish History | 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
Upcoming meeting:
— Wednesday, May 29 at 7pm
to discuss Lola, California by Edie Meidav
The year is 2008; the place, California. Vic Mahler, famous for having inspired cult followers in the seventies, serves time on death row, awaiting his execution in ten days. For years, his daughter, Lana, has been in hiding, but her friend Rose, a lawyer, is determined to bring the two together. Yet when Rose succeeds in tracking down Lana at a California health spa, the pair must negotiate land mines of memory in order to reconcile the past and face their futures. A story infused with pathos and wit, insight and lyricism,Lola, California “matches metaphoric wit with an American state that defies summary…A hypnotic and suspenseful tale, tightening toward an irresistible end” (Elizabeth Rosner, author of The Speed of Light).
To see a list of what we’ve already read, click here.
AJHS Senior Archivist Wins Award
The Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) has awarded Tanya Elder second prize for best Finding Aid of 2012. Ms. Elder is a Senior Archivist at the American Jewish Historical Society here at the Center. She wrote the finding aid for the Mordecai Sheftall Papers. It is over 100 pages long and contains embedded links to every Continental Army provision return within the collection. This collection was processed, microfilmed and digitized with partial funding from the “Save America’s Treasures” federal grant program. Ms. Tanya Elder received her award at the Regional MARAC meeting at the end of April.
Click here to view the finding aid!
April 2013
10 posts
LBI Archivist in the New York Times →
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Caring for Albert Einstein’s childhood teacup or Meyer Lansky’s marriage certificate, archivists in New York are assuming a higher profile and doing more networking.
This NYT article features archivist Michael Simonson of the Leo Baeck Institute, one of the 5 partners here at the Center for Jewish History.
