HOURS

Reading Room & Genealogy Institute
Mon-Thurs: 9:30am-4:30pm

Exhibit Spaces
Mon-Wed: 9:30am-4:30pm
Thurs: 9:30am-8pm
Fri: 10am-3pm
Sat: Closed
Sun: 11am-5pm

Make sure to check our holiday closures prior to visiting.

Last entry to the Center for Jewish History Exhibitions, Reading Room, and the Genealogy Institute is 30 minutes before closing. The last call to page items in the Reading Room and Genealogy Institute is 3pm.

Resources

Whether you are an adventurous maverick or a busy person in need of ready-to-use pedagogical tools, we have something for you.

Explore our pedagogical resources—curated collections of primary sources, videos with accompanying assignments and discussion questions, lesson scenarios, ideas for short assignments and homework projects, and more information about opportunities for schools at the Center.

Share your own tips and ideas with us at education@cjh.org — we will be happy to post them!

Eureka!

In the late spring of 2020, while we were locked down due to the pandemic and without access to the collections at CJH, we reached out to scholars and asked them about the treasure troves they found in our archives that transformed their research. The stories they shared weave fascinating, diverse tales of discovery across centuries and languages -- reminding us of the importance of primary sources in scholarship, and the power of studying the past.

Enjoy the Eureka! series and get inspired!

Brian Ogren (Rice University)
Sandra Fox (Stanford University)
Derek Penslar (Harvard University)
Natalia Aleksiun (Tuoro College)
Shaul Magid (Dartmouth College)
Adam Teller (Brown University)
Adam Shear (University of Pittsburgh)
Elissa Bemporad (Queens College)
Glenn Dynner (Sarah Lawrence College)
Miriam Schulz (Columbia University)
Jessica Cooperman (Muhlenberg College)
Anita Norich (University of Michigan)
Naomi Seidman (University of Toronto)
Ari Cohen (University of Virginia)

Videos

Professor Jonathan Sarna (Brandeis University)
Professor Ruth Wisse (Harvard University)
Professor Todd Gitlin (Columbia University)
Professor Jan Gross (Princeton University)
Professor Deborah Lipstadt (Emory University)