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The Goldbergs, Puzzle AdvertisementYear: 1932Creator: Pepsodent Co. Type: Color LithographThe Goldbergs, one of the first successful television sitcoms, spawned from a popular radio program and ran from 1949 to 1956. The show centered around a family of Eastern European Jews living in the Bronx, and often explored themes of ethnicity, financial struggles, and family. The undeniable star of the show was matriarch Mollie Goldberg, played by series writer and creator Gertrude Berg. A “bighearted, lovingly meddlesome, and somewhat stereotypical” mother with a Yiddish accent, Mrs.Goldberg in each episode, would address the audience from the apartment window, as depicted in the puzzle above. The Goldbergs was part of a roster of shows on early ’50s television dealing with lower-class immigrant families and their problems; however, as mainstream Americans found prosperity in postwar America and moved to the suburbs, so did the Goldbergs, and the show quickly lost its working-class Jewish roots as television studios moved to portray a more affluent, patriarch-centered, white American lifestyle, exemplified in shows such as Leave It to Beaver. Source

The Goldbergs, Puzzle Advertisement
Year: 1932
Creator: Pepsodent Co.
Type: Color Lithograph

The Goldbergs, one of the first successful television sitcoms, spawned from a popular radio program and ran from 1949 to 1956. The show centered around a family of Eastern European Jews living in the Bronx, and often explored themes of ethnicity, financial struggles, and family.

The undeniable star of the show was matriarch Mollie Goldberg, played by series writer and creator Gertrude Berg. A “bighearted, lovingly meddlesome, and somewhat stereotypical” mother with a Yiddish accent, Mrs.Goldberg in each episode, would address the audience from the apartment window, as depicted in the puzzle above. The Goldbergs was part of a roster of shows on early ’50s television dealing with lower-class immigrant families and their problems; however, as mainstream Americans found prosperity in postwar America and moved to the suburbs, so did the Goldbergs, and the show quickly lost its working-class Jewish roots as television studios moved to portray a more affluent, patriarch-centered, white American lifestyle, exemplified in shows such as Leave It to Beaver. Source

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Marriage Contract Form (Ketubah) Creator: Chaim GrossType: Lithograph on paperYear: 1979Repository: Yeshiva University Museum ——- Join the 16th Street Book Club for a discussion of The Marriage Artist by Andrew Winer!Tuesday, August 14th at 7pmWhen the wife of renowned art critic Daniel Lichtmann plunges to her death, she is not alone. Lying next to her is Benjamin Wind, the very artist Daniel most championed. Dedicating himself to uncovering the secrets of their relationship, Daniel discovers a web of mysteries leading back to pre—World War II Vienna. Ambitious, haunting, and stunningly written, The Marriage Artist is an “elaborate psycho-political-sexual puzzle, with…hard truths, startling visions, and eerie insights into the mystical and memorializing powers of art, and that endless hunger we call love” (Booklist). Learn more about the book club here.

Marriage Contract Form (Ketubah)

Creator: Chaim Gross
Type: Lithograph on paper
Year: 1979
Repository: Yeshiva University Museum

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Join the 16th Street Book Club for a discussion of The Marriage Artist by Andrew Winer!

Tuesday, August 14th at 7pm

When the wife of renowned art critic Daniel Lichtmann plunges to her death, she is not alone. Lying next to her is Benjamin Wind, the very artist Daniel most championed. Dedicating himself to uncovering the secrets of their relationship, Daniel discovers a web of mysteries leading back to pre—World War II Vienna. Ambitious, haunting, and stunningly written, The Marriage Artist is an “elaborate psycho-political-sexual puzzle, with…hard truths, startling visions, and eerie insights into the mystical and memorializing powers of art, and that endless hunger we call love” (Booklist).

Learn more about the book club here.

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The Breakers, Atlantic City. Postcard c. 1940. Yeshiva University Museum.The Breakers was one of many grand hotels lining the Atlantic City coast in the 1940s. The area became a top vacation destination for East Coasters in the 20th century, perhaps propelled by increasing disposable income among the middle class and the adoption of proper swimming outfits by men and women. You can view a newly uploaded set of summer photos, with retro swimsuits and summer camps galore, on the Center flickr page under the tag “Summer Recreation.”

The Breakers, Atlantic City. Postcard c. 1940. Yeshiva University Museum.

The Breakers was one of many grand hotels lining the Atlantic City coast in the 1940s. The area became a top vacation destination for East Coasters in the 20th century, perhaps propelled by increasing disposable income among the middle class and the adoption of proper swimming outfits by men and women. You can view a newly uploaded set of summer photos, with retro swimsuits and summer camps galore, on the Center flickr page under the tag “Summer Recreation.”

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Trial of Jews of TrentYear: 1478Type: Manuscript, handwritten on paperCountry: Trent, GermanyRepository: Yeshiva University Museum In 1475, a two-year-old Christian boy named Simon disappeared in Trent, a small town in Germany. He was eventually found dead in the cellar of a local Jewish man, which began a blood libel and a fraudulent, violent investigation. Already brimming with antisemitism from a recent fiery sermon given by the area’s friar, townsfolk became convinced the boy was murdered by Trent’s small Jewish community as a blood ritual. Men and women from all eighteen Jewish families in the town were arrested and tortured into confessing their crimes. The trial finally culminated in six men being burned at the stake and two beheaded.The Duke of Wurtemberg ordered a trail record to be written, and the only surviving German copy can be viewed here.

Trial of Jews of Trent
Year: 1478
Type: Manuscript, handwritten on paper
Country: Trent, Germany
Repository: Yeshiva University Museum

In 1475, a two-year-old Christian boy named Simon disappeared in Trent, a small town in Germany. He was eventually found dead in the cellar of a local Jewish man, which began a blood libel and a fraudulent, violent investigation. Already brimming with antisemitism from a recent fiery sermon given by the area’s friar, townsfolk became convinced the boy was murdered by Trent’s small Jewish community as a blood ritual. Men and women from all eighteen Jewish families in the town were arrested and tortured into confessing their crimes. The trial finally culminated in six men being burned at the stake and two beheaded.

The Duke of Wurtemberg ordered a trail record to be written, and the only surviving German copy can be viewed here.

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