The Center for Jewish History in New York City illuminates history, culture and heritage. The Center provides a collaborative home for five partner organizations: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.
The partners’ archives comprise the world’s largest and most comprehensive archive of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel. The collections span a thousand years, with more than five miles of archival documents (in dozens of languages and alphabet systems), more than 500,000 volumes, as well as thousands of artworks, textiles, ritual objects, recordings, films and photographs.
Historian Michael Brenner (American/University of Munich) will discuss contemporary Jewish life in Germany on the occasion of the English-language publication of A History
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The American Sephardi Federation Presents A Special Book Launch The Fox Hunt by Mohammed AL-Samawi A Refugee’s Memoir of Coming to America Featuring
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Todd Gitlin (Columbia University), in interview with AJHS Executive Director Annie Polland, will speak about how his scholarship on the 1960s and the
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Samuel J. Bernstein’s new musical «Queen Esther’s Dilemma» is inspired by the Biblical Book of Esther. This original play blends humor with anguish,
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Join the American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra as we collaborate with the Center for Jewish History and The Royal Conservatory for
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Max Liebermann’s pastel, “The Basket Weavers” was once part of the extensive art collection of David Friedmann in Breslau, Silesia, Germany (now Wroclaw,
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Samuel J. Bernstein’s new musical «Queen Esther’s Dilemma» is inspired by the Biblical Book of Esther. This original play blends humor with anguish,
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This edition of the American Sephardi Federation’s New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival at the Center for Jewish History uses the poignant medium
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Family History Today for Young Professionals: Genealogy Discoveries InstaMeet New to genealogy? Eager to fill in the branches of your family tree? Join
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