April 2012
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Earth Day 2012
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Senior Reference Librarian - Collections, Center for Jewish History Boy in corn field, Woodbine, New Jersey (ca. 1900) American Jewish Historical Society. Click here for more information. In celebration of Earth Day, I thought it would be appropriate to reflect on the spectrum of Jewish thoughts on the environment. Simply looking at the bibliography and external...
Apr 22nd
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Apr 20th
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Apr 18th
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Yom HaShoah
Holocaust Remembrance Day begins this evening (4/18) and ends tomorrow evening (4/19). As the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website explains: “The internationally recognized date comes from the Hebrew calendar and corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on that calendar. It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.” The poets that we feature today and tomorrow (as...
Apr 18th
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woman of letters
by Yermiyahu Ahron Taub sometimes I wish the sequence of things could have more closely resembled the corpus of the Delft master— a series of moments of contemplation, delicate with import. framed by pale glow and white marble, how could my days not have assumed a mantle of meaning? the sun flowing through the many diamond frames would have illuminated my letters from old friends and imagined...
Apr 17th
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The Hour
by Shmuel Hanagid (born 993 - died after 1056) She said: “Be happy that God has helped you reach  The age of fifty in this world,” not knowing  That to me there is no difference between my life’s  Past and that of Noah about whom I heard.  For me there is only the hour in which I am present in this world:  It stays for a moment and then like a cloud moves on. - Translated by Leon J. Weinberger...
Apr 16th
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Apr 12th
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Apr 10th
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Apr 9th
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Apr 9th
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Second-hand book sale at the Center
On Sunday, April 15th, the partners of the Center for Jewish History will host a second-hand book sale from 11am to 4pm. The sale will include duplicate copies and “out-of-scope” work from the partners’ collections. Discover used books about Jewish and general history, literature, art, biographies, religion and other related topics. Authors include Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Itzik...
Apr 4th
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Apr 3rd
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Apr 2nd
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Apr 1st
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