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.
Co-presented with the Jewish Review of Books The philosopher Moses Mendelssohn paved the way for Jewish entry into the German mainstream by promoting
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Co-presented with the German Academy in New York In 1925, the German-Jewish industrialist and former Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau emerged from self-imposed seclusion
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Co-presented with the Goethe-Institut New York In the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges decision of 2014, the US Supreme Court recognized the right of
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Co-presented with the American Council on Germany Through personal stories, the 2016 film Germans & Jews explores the country’s transformation from silence about
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Co-presented with the American Jewish Historical Society In 1967, Stephen Birmingham published his best-selling social history of New York’s elite German-Jewish banking families
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To celebrate the opening of the exhibition Becoming German-Jews in America, historian Tobias Brinkmann (Penn State) comments on an exhibition that shows how
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The Pew Research Center’s study on Jewish Americans in 2013 alarmed some observers by showing rising intermarriage, falling birthrates, and dwindling religious affiliation
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Although the Bible itself says very little about it, Jewish and Christian traditions commonly regard Hebrew as the language of creation, the language
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