History
From the Collection: High Water
As stated in one of our last posts about the hurricane, we are familiar with what the devastation of hurricanes ...
Writing Biography: The Historian’s Challenge, Part 2
Can biographers really know their subjects fully? Was Mark Twain right when he said that “a man’s real life is ...
Writing Biography: The Historian’s Challenge, Part 1
For historians, writing biography presents a number of challenges. One of the more important comes from scholars who tend to ...
How did they get here?
When I tell people about Jewish families in the small towns I’ve visited, they often ask, “How did they get ...
Let’s Dance at The Kotel
The recent reports of women being dragged from the Kotel — the Western Wall — while Torah scrolls were ripped ...
From the Collection: “What My Lady Should Not Wear”
There are moments as an archivist when something unusual (like a fur muff or a military notebook) sticks out from ...
Guten Tag, Keshet!
In early October, Dan Schulman joined Keshet as the new Massachusetts Community Organizer. Before he could get settled, Dan was ...
Bowling with Jews
As I was researching the Jewish history of Tulsa, Oklahoma, I came upon a wonderful photograph in the 50th anniversary ...
Rabbi Hinchin on Dr. Jacob Rader Marcus
Sometimes oral history interviews yield interesting clips that don’t have a clear home among our current history resources. Fortunately, this ...
From the Collection: Clarksdale’s Spunky, Scrapbooking Youth
The Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience has a collection of over 3,000 objects and archival materials that tell the ...