Letters of Conscience: Raphael Lemkin and the Quest to End Genocide
Raphael Lemkin devoted most of his life to studying and writing about the issue of genocide. When he died in 1959, he left an extensive trove of correspondence and papers documenting his work, as well as treatises on the meaning and impact of genocide. Today, many of those papers are held in the archives of the American Jewish Historical Society at the Center for Jewish History. | |  |
Jews in America: Our Story
A comprehensive web site on the history and culture of the American Jewish community, including a historical timeline, with a gallery of over 500 artifacts drawn from the collections of the partners of the Center for Jewish History. | |  |
Letters from the Front: Jewish War Heroes
A commemoration of the special role played by Jewish soldiers in the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in World War II. Stories, letters, photographs, documents, and music. (In cooperation with the Blavatnik Family Foundation.) | |  |
Digital Galleries of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Online versions of the exhibitions of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, including, The Kishinev Pogrom of 1903: On the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary; Light One Candle: A Child's Diary of the Holocaust; Mattityahu Strashun (1817-1885): Scholar, Leader, and Book Collector; Here and Now: The Vision of the Jewish Labor Bund in Interwar Poland; and Ida Kaminska (1899-1980): Grande Dame of the Yiddish Theater. | |  |
A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry and American Jewry, 1860-1960
Highlights from Yeshiva University Museum's exhibition tracing the early thread of 19th-century Jewish immigrants seeking success in America interlaced with one hundred years of fashion from 1860-1960. | | |
Hermann Struck: Artistic Wanderer from Berlin to Haifa
This exhibit presents the work of the internationally renowned artist Hermann Struck (Chaim Aaron ben David, 1876-1944) in the context of the emerging modern art movements in Germany and Palestine. On display are also works by Max Liebermann, Josef Israels and Lesser Ury. A rare collection of oil paintings and watercolors depicting Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s are shown along with photos, letters and publications by and about this modern master whose influence on 20th century art is only now beginning to be recognized. | |  |
Fighting for the Fatherland: The Patriotism of Jews in World War I
Some ninety years ago the world witnessed one of the deadliest military confrontations in human history. World War I changed what was thinkable about human brutality and opened a door for the destruction of European Jewry only two decades later. But at the beginning of the First World War German and Austrian Jews were among the first to show their patriotism. This exhibition of photos, letters, artwork, documents and other rare artifacts shows the extent to which Jewish citizens fought for the Fatherland. | | |
Photo Galleries of the American Sephardi Federation
Online exhibitions of photographs featuring Sephardic artists and works with Sephardic content, including an album of photographs of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. | |  |
|
|
