Gruss Lipper Lab Makes Its Debut Digital Asset Management Service for the Full Scope of Collections ﬁve Partner Organizations That Comprise Housed at the Center

No. 13 Fall/Winter 2005

comprehensive in-house digitization and Gruss Lipper Lab Makes Its Debut digital asset management service for the full scope of collections five partner organizations that comprise housed at the Center. the Center,” says Tony Gill, director of the This is the second gen- Laboratory. “Ultimately, our goal is to erous gift from the provide an integrated central repository Gruss Lipper Family of information – a vast electronic data- Foundation, which ear- base of the partners’ collections that is lier provided funds so accessible from any computer with Inter- that YIVO could create net access.” the Gruss Lipper Digital The new lab is fitted with a system for Archive on Jewish Life temperature and humidity control to in Poland and put that insure that the environmental conditions collection online. are suitable for temporarily storing items “From the very from the collections. It is equipped with beginning,” says Center state-of-the-art flatbed scanner, slide chairman Bruce Slovin, scanner, and digital camera workstations, “we planned for tech- which all produce high-resolution digital nology to provide an image reproductions. There is also a work- operational platform station for digitizing audio cassettes, per- that would bind the forming quality assurance and cataloging identities of the partner the digital reproductions. When the pro- organizations together duction process is completed, the digital and make their collec- reproductions are stored on a powerful tions available to a server using a sophisticated digital asset much larger audience. management system to build a robust per- We are most grateful manent repository of digital assets for The new Gruss Lipper Digital Laboratory, a that the Gruss Lipper family shares our multiple uses. professionally staffed state-of-the-art dig- vision of digitizing our collections with The combination of professional itization facility, is up and running at the the goal of a single electronic catalog of expertise, technology and the Center’s Center for Jewish History. Thanks to a all the Center collections.” commitment to long-term management generous $3/4 million gift from the Gruss What does it all mean? Essentially, a and preservation goals ensures that the Lipper Family Foundation, the Center has digital imaging project converts printed generous Gruss Lipper Family Foundation now taken an important step forward in manuscript and pictorial information into gift will have a profound and lasting its mission to preserve the Jewish past electronic images for computer-based value in making Jewish cultural heritage and provide broad and easy access to the applications. “The new lab will provide a available to a global audience. I

partner organizations have largest ever, will document explore the singular and his- From the Chair played a major role in the the primary role played by toric relationship of Jews and Five years after opening our national commemoration of Jews in America’s garment medicine and their role and doors, the Center is a preemi- the 350th anniversary of the industry. A multi-disciplinary responsibilities today. The nent and vibrant Jewish cul- ﬁrst Jewish presence in Amer- national conference has 10th annual Sephardic Film tural institution. ica. A soon-to-open landmark attracted experts from various Festival will further the Just read these pages! Our exhibition, the Center‘s disciplines to the Center to continued on page 2 Valentin M. Blavatnik Theater Dedicated

“Entering, evolve as the Center and its one is embraced partners expand their presen- by a compelling tations. It is equipped with a digitally- 65-inch high-definition plas- enlarged ma screen that will allow for archival image DVD and PowerPoint or other juxtaposed to its computer presentations in very modern addition to showing the orien- setting. The dra- tation film. It has cable and matic effect direct international television employs one of access, and a simultaneous the central ideas feed from the Center’s audito- of the theolo- rium to accommodate over- gian Abraham flow audiences. A custom Joshua Heschel, lectern controls lighting in that of ‘radical the room to enhance the From the Chair amazement,’ in experience of viewing archival continued from page 1 which one must material.

understanding of the Sephardic Jewish experience. And this is just a sampling of Visitors to the Center will our programming. have a heightened experi- We are also working dili- ence when they begin gently to preserve and make their visits in the new available the rare collections Valentin M. Blavatnik Ori- of our partners. As you will entation Theater. Dedicat- read, the new Gruss Lipper ed on September 30, with Digital Lab represents a giant the entire Blavatnik fami- step forward in our goal of ly on hand, this gift of creating a vast electronic Leonard and Emily Blavat- database of our partners’ nik was funded through a holdings accessible by broad family grant in memory of audiences. Leonard Blavatnik’s All this would not be possi- father. ble without the generosity of Bonnie Roche, Archi- many friends, and grants from tect/Visual Designer of Leonard and Emily Blavatnik and family members. public and private sources. the theater space, The costs of achieving our describes the visitor’s challenging goals and main- experience as follows: “I first be amazed to want to The illuminated image that taining our high standards are designed this space solely for understand. currently welcomes visitors is substantial. With your ongo- the purpose of the presenta- “At that point,” she taken from Tobias ben Moses ing support, we will continue tion of the richness of explains, “this small space Cohn’s Hebrew masterwork to strive high to be a seminal archival and related material, becomes a big idea, trans- Ma’aseh Tobiyyah (Work of resource on the history and a space in which the architec- forming a theatrical set which Tobias), published in Venice heritage of world Jewry—a ture falls away, and nothing requires an emotional reci- in 1707. The engraving is strong and essential link car- tangible appears to exist procity—not just a viewing, from a rare volume in the rying the Jewish past forward between the viewer and the but an engagement with the library of the YIVO Institute to engage with the present image, whether the images are archival image—into a high- for Jewish Research that ties and future generations. floating in a field of changing tech media theater.” man to the world about him light and reflections or seen The theater boasts the and supports claims to the on the state-of-the-art plasma newest technology that will tradition of Jewish scientific screen. allow use of the space to interest and knowledge. I Bruce Slovin Chairman

2 who enlisted in the U.S. Army AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY and fought in the Korean War and whose actions are credit- ed with saving more than 40 DC Gala Culminates lives. Celebrate 350 Chairman, Robert S. Rifkind, presented “Celebrate 350” Observance President Bush with a commemorative Gold Medal, President Bush Delivers Keynote Address struck in honor of the 350th anniversary, which bears the 350th anniver- words that the nation’s first sary in Ameri- President, George Washington, ca, and our addressed to the Jews of New- historic obliga- port, Rhode Island, in 1790. tion, as Ameri- The inscription reads, in part: can Jews, to “The citizens of the United preserve and States have a right to applaud protect our themselves for giving to homeland and mankind examples of an our Jewish enlarged and liberal heritage.” policy…May the children of Addressing the stock of Abraham who the guests, dwell in the land continue to President Bush merit and enjoy the good will lauded the of the other inhabitants while contributions every one shall sit under his made by Jews. own vine and fig tree and “We are a bet- there shall be none to make ter and The Honorable Edward I. Koch accepting the Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award from the him afraid.” stronger and American Jewish Historical Society. From left to right: AJHS Executive Director David P. Solomon, Highlighting the after din- freer nation former Mayor Koch, AJHS Chairman Kenneth J. Bialkin, AJHS President Sidney Lapidus. ner program was the presenta- because so tion of the American Jewish Some 1,000 representatives of the U.S. Jewish community were many Jews from countries all Historical Society’s Emma on hand in the nation’s capital when the American Jewish His- over the world have chosen to Lazarus Statue of Liberty torical Society co-hosted the concluding event in the year-long become American citizens,” Award to former New York City celebration honoring the 350th anniversary of the establish- he said. Bush also announced Mayor, the Honorable Edward ment of the first Jewish community in America. plans to award the Medal of I. Koch. The award is given to The celebratory gala dinner at Washington’s National Building Honor, the nation's highest individuals who have con- Museum was co-hosted by Celebrate 350: Jewish Life in America, civilian honor, to Cpl. Tibor tributed significantly to and the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Rubin, a Holocaust survivor improving the human condi- Jewish History. Celebrate 350 is the national organization tion. Said AJHS President Sid- formed to promote activities during this commemorative year. ney Lapidus, “The Society is The members of the congressionally authorized Commission—the honored to present the Emma American Jewish Historical Society, the Jacob Rader Marcus Cen- Lazarus Award to Ed Koch in ter of the American Jewish Archives, the Library of Congress and recognition of his dedication the National Archives and Records Administration—have cooper- to securing the benefits ated on a series of commemorative exhibits during 2004-2005 in of freedom and democracy Washington at the Library of Congress, in Cincinnati, and in New for all.” I York at the Center for Jewish History. The American Jewish His- torical Society’s recent exhibition at the Center, ‘Greetings from Home’: 350 Years of American Jewish Life, was a highlight of the AMERICAN JEWISH LIVES: year’s commemorative observance. 1654 TO THE PRESENT President’s Bush’s participation at the dinner gathering car- On exhibit through ried on a tradition established in 1905 and continued in 1954, December 30, 2005 at The when Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight D. Eisenhower Center for Jewish History took part in the American Jewish community’s national observance of its 250th and 300th anniversaries. Mordecai Manuel Noah American Jewish Historical Society “We thank the President of the United States for being part (1785-1851), politician, journalist, (AJH): Custodian of the Records of of this celebration,” said Kenneth J. Bialkin, AJHS Chairman. playwright, visionary of the the Jewish Experience in America proto-Zionist Ararat colony in “His presence reminds us of the truly historic nature of our New York State.

3 AMERICAN SEPHARDI FEDERATION Film Festival Will Mark Milestone of their efforts to build new heritage, and Rabbi Marc D. Angel of the lives in a foreign land. Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. Spreading the word of The American Sephardi Federation the history, culture and with Sephardic House was proud to par- social traditions of ticipate in a program in collaboration Sephardic Jewish communi- with the Primo Levi Center and the Leo ties in the United States Baeck Institute this October, a Centenni- and from around the world al Symposium on author Elias Canetti. A is the mission of the "Spanish poet of German language," Elias ASF/SH, the only national Canetti grew up a polyglot, living at dif- organization in the United ferent periods of his life in Bulgaria, Eng- States to represent land and Vienna. He was born into an Sephardic Jews of all ori- elite Sephardic family, who when gins—from the Middle East, expelled from Spain in 1492, settled in North Africa, the Balkan the Ottoman Empire. countries, Spain and Portu- Since its arrival at the Center of Jewish gal, Greece and Turkey. History in 2000, the American Sephardi Cultural offerings by the Federation has established the only public ASF/SH shed light on for- North American Library/Archives dedicat- gotten aspects of Jewish ed solely to the Sephardic experience. The history. The deportation collection now includes more than 4,000 and destruction of over books and 10,000 archival documents. ASF 50,000 Jews from Salonika, has recently launched a new website Greece by the Nazis, is a www.americansephardifederation.org, that part of the Holocaust story includes valuable information about pro- that is rarely told. In grams and The American Sephardi Federation with Sephardic House is sup- December, the Amer- Sephardic com- porting the presentation of the monodrama Golgotha, a stirring ican Sephardi Feder- munities, access journey into the past of a Holocaust survivor from Salonica, Greece. ation with Sephardic to the ASF House will sponsor a library online The 10th milestone year of the New York one-man play, Golgotha, which is catalogue, and International Sephardic Jewish Film Fes- based on the actual character of an online book- tival, a centerpiece of the public pro- Alberto Salavada, a traditional Jew store featuring gramming presented by the American from Thessalonica, Greece. When topical and his- Sephardi Federation with Sephardic Alberto, his wife and daughters torical books, House, (ASF/SH) will carry forward the were deported to Auschwitz-Birke- videos and DVD’s theme of “Roots and Origins” in a cine- nau in 1943, he alone survived. The of Sephardic matic celebration of the varied and rich play is set in Israel at the end of his interest. ASF/SH cultures and identities of Sephardic life and will be produced at the La also publishes Jewry and its widespread historical roots. Mama Theater. the magazine, The week-long Festival, co-sponsored by Another program reflects an The Sephardi the Yeshiva University Museum, will take extraordinary growing phenome- Report, a journal Sefer Arba'a VeEsrim/Nevi'im place from February 2 to 8 at the Center non of our time, the desire of Rishonim/ Nevi'im featuring con- for Jewish History. forcibly converted Jews, or Ahronim/Ketubim (The book of tent from its Says ASF Director Esme Emmanuel Anusim, from Spain, Portugal, Twenty-Four First Prophets-Last scholarly events, Berg, “We hope that viewed through the Brazil and parts of the Americas Prophets – Writings) From the ASF lectures and Louis N. Levy Ladino and Rare I eye of the camera, our audiences will to return to the religion of their Book Library Collection. exhibitions. come away with a deeper understanding ancestors. In November, The of the extraordinary story of Sephardic American Sephardi Federation with Jews that began centuries ago and contin- Sephardic House will present a dia- THE 10TH ANNUAL NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL ues in our modern times.” One of the logue between Yaffah daCosta, the SEPHARDIC JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL films, for example, Ademir Kenovic’s his- founder and director of Ezra February 2–6, 2006 The Center for Jewish History torical drama Secret Passage, is a testa- ’Anousim, a Jerusalem-based ment to the ingenuity of the Spanish Jews organization dedicated to reconnect- American Sephardi Federation (ASF): Representing the who fled in the 15th century and a story ing crypto-Jews with their Jewish Diverse Spectrum of Sephardic Jews in the United States

4 LEO BAECK INSTITUTE German Jews in America Starting Over: The Experience Evansville, Indiana, where he would take them. of German Jews in America is settled after the war. Heinrich What was remark- the name of the exhibit on (Henry) Berolzheimer of Fürth able about this Nazi- view at the Center this sum- came to America and bought forced influx of mer and fall in the gallery of up woodland in the State of immigrants was their the Leo Baeck Institute. The Missouri, prompting his exceptionally high show reflects the confluence descendants to go into the level of professional of two important commemora- pencil business (Berol Yellow). and education skills, tive dates – the 50th anniver- The contributions of the including a large sary of the LBI and the 350th German-Jewish Americans number of artists and anniversary of the first Jewish were broad and diverse. Jacob intellectuals. Materi- presence in America. Schiff’s financial institution of als in the exhibit While the Institute’s pri- Kuhn, Loeb & Company, was document the jour- mary focus as a research very important to America’s neys of author Franz library and archive is on the reconstruction effort after the Werfel, film directors history and culture of Jews in Civil War. Schiff was also one Otto Preminger and German-speaking countries, of the first great Jewish phi- Billy Wilder; Isidore Esslinger, Captain in the 32nd Starting Over focuses on the lanthropists in American life, theater director Max Regiment of the Indiana Volunteer important role German-Jewish founding the American Jewish Reinhardt; composer Militia, 1863 immigrants played in shaping Joint Distribution Committee. Arnold Schoenberg and American life. Some 150 let- Other German Jews founded conductor Bruno Walter, and ied. These rich archives have ters, documents, photos, charitable organizations to the many émigré professors become a treasure-trove for paintings, memoirs and other provide professional social who comprised the faculty at German-Jewish history, as artifacts from the rich collec- services to the less fortunate; the New School for Social well as for many aspects of tions of the LBI bring this his- B’nai B’rith, the National Research in New York. Rabbi life that define modernity in tory to life. Council of Jewish Women and Leo Baeck, the last leader of the 20th century. The LBI col- The exhibit opens with a Hadassah are still very active the Jewish Community in Ger- lections include a great deal survey of decrees and quotas today. Hadassah’s founder, many under the Nazis, emi- of postwar material including dating from as early as the Henrietta Szold, was the grated to England to be with developments to the present 16th century, detailing the daughter of the prominent his daughter, but lived also in day. many prohibitions that Hungarian Rabbi Benjamin the United States to teach at In 2001, the LBI opened a prompted thousands of Jews Szold, whose German educa- Hebrew Union College in branch of its archives at the to leave their homeland in tion at the Rabbinical Semi- Cincinnati. Jewish Museum Berlin. “By search of a better life. nary in Breslau led him to The exhibit concludes with opening an archive in Berlin,” The New Horizons segment become one of the pioneers in materials about the Leo Baeck says Carol Kahn Strauss, LBI of the exhibit looks at the the development of the Institute, which was founded Executive Director, “Germans journey of 19th century emi- Reform movement, first in in 1955 by a group of individ- have access to a part of Ger- gres, some 200,000 German Hungary and then in the uals who felt strongly that man history, when Jews were Jews who arrived in America United States. In the LBI the rich heritage of German active and productive mem- between 1830 and 1880. For exhibit one sees that Ameri- Jewry should not perish. bers of their society, as they example, Isidore Esslinger can Reform and Conservative Rabbi Leo Baeck agreed to are on the way to becoming came from a small town in Judaism are rooted in ideas have the new organization once again.” I Württemberg, fought in the imported from Central Europe, named after him as the repre- Civil war and achieved the especially from Germany. sentative of modern Jewish rank of captain in an all-Ger- The section of the exhibit scholarship. He became its STARTING OVER: man regiment of the Indiana entitled Nazi Years depicts the first President. Rabbi Baeck THE EXPERIENCE OF militia. (Captain Esslinger was wave of immigrants escaping died one year later, in 1956. GERMAN JEWS IN AMERICA not the only Jew in his unit, Nazi terror. Of Germany’s pre- Rabbi Baeck and the other Through December 30, 2005 but the highest ranking one.) war Jewish population of founders committed them- On Exhibit at The Center for A letter from President 600,000, close to half a mil- selves to establishing a Jewish History Ulysses Grant to Esslinger is lion left Germany in the research institute where mate- included in the show, in 1930s. Of these, about rial and knowledge about the which the President makes 130,000 entered the U.S.; oth- centuries-old life and history Leo Baeck Institute (LBI): him an official Appraiser of ers went to England, Pales- of German-speaking Jews Documenting the Vibrant Life of German-Speaking Jewry Merchandise for the Port of tine, or whichever country would be collected and stud-

5 YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 100 Years of Fashion–Landmark Exhibition A Perfect Fit: The Over 100 A Perfect Fit pays homage Garment Industry dressed man- to such time-honored names and American nequins will as Levi Strauss (founded in Jewry, 1860-1960, take viewers 1853 by a Bavarian immi- the Yeshiva Uni- from the early grant), Hickey-Freeman (the versity Museum Civil War Years Rochester, New York firm (YUM) exhibition to the beginning established in 1889 to pro- which opens at of mass manu- duce quality ready-to-wear the Center on facture, to the men’s suits), Neiman Marcus December 4, emergence of (which opened its doors in encompasses all American Dallas in 1907), Fred Cole the strands of designers and (who turned from producing American Jewry American style, bathing suits to parachutes in as it explores the the war years, World War II), and Anne history of Ameri- Seventh Avenue Klein, among many others. It can fashion, from and Hollywood. is also a tribute to the masses Gold rush-era Utilizing film of skilled hard working immi- blue jeans to Hol- clips, interactive grants who plied their trade lywood inspired and industrial in anonymity. Together they glamour. For the displays, fashioned an industry that very first time, photographs, helped propel the American YUM is dedicating economy as it its entire second launched the floor gallery wing lives of tens of to one exhibition. thousands of Six years in American Jews. the planning, this Three store ambitious under- windows at taking breaks new Advertisement for Cole of California, c.1941. Bloomingdale’s Military contracts for uniforms, or for parachutes as ground as it in this advertisement, provided the opportunity for (which moved examines the evo- garment industry retooling and growth during to Lexington lution of the World War II. The swimsuit shown was made with- Avenue from workplace, out any elastic in order to conform to wartime its lower “East rationing requirements. Courtesy of Cole of including the California Corporate Archives Side Bazaar” relation between Cutter’s shears, c.1920. Collection of Yeshiva University site in 1886) management and prominently involved in Museum. Tools of the trade defined divisions of labor. will be devoted organized labor, and the ways dressing America for some The cutter was a highly skilled position, responsible for to the exhibi- making efficient cuts. in which American Jews 150 years,” says Sylvia Her- tion. An helped to build an industry skowitz, Director of the expansive cata- that made Seventh Avenue the Yeshiva University Museum. documents, department logue will accompany this heart of international apparel “A Perfect Fit allows visitors store archives, and voices exhibition and a wide array of commerce. to immerse themselves in the from the industry, the exhibit public programs targeting a Successive waves of Jewish many facets of this long histo- promises to be a visually multiage audience will be immigrants shaped the growth ry – from the industrial forces stimulating and engaging offered in cooperation with of the American garment in play and the early manu- visitor experience. other cultural partners. I industry. A Perfect Fit exam- facture of ready made clothing ines how an immigrant com- to the glamour of Hollywood.” munity defined itself and The exhibit is designed to A PERFECT FIT: made a significant impact on appeal to the broadest of THE GARMENT INDUSTRY AND AMERICAN JEWRY 1860-1960 American culture – as tailors, audiences and has been fund- YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM at The Center for Jewish History peddlers, pressers and cutters, ed in part with a grant from December 4, 2005–March 31, 2006 designers and manufacturers, the National Endowment for models and moguls. the Humanities, which has Yeshiva University Museum (YUM): Educating Audiences of All Ages with “German, Eastern European designated it as a “We the Dynamic Interpretations of Jewish Life, Past and Present and Sephardic Jews have been People Project.”

6 YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH In the Footsteps of Maimonides The YIVO Institute for Jewish speakers included: Sidney Alt- Research is giving public focus man, Ph.D., Yale University this fall to the long and dis- and Nobel Laureate in Chem- tinctive history of Jews and istry; Barbara E. Bierer, M.D., medicine, with a major con- Harvard Medical School, ference that looks at the ties Brigham and Women’s Hospi- that have bound Jews with tal; Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D., the art of healing since the Ph.D., National Institutes of time of Maimonides in the Health; Jerome E. Groopman, 12th century. M.D., Harvard University, Beth YIVO’s groundbreaking Israel Deaconess Medical Cen- national conference, “The ter; Eric R. Kandel, M.D., Jewish Doctor as Healer, Sci- Columbia University, Nobel entist and Intellectual,” was Laureate in Medicine; organized to explore the mul- Jonathan David Lear, Ph.D., tiple dimensions of the associ- University of Chicago; Evelyn ation of Jews with medicine Lipper, M.D., Weill Medical and their role and responsibil- College of Cornell University, ities today. New York Presbyterian Hospi- Sherwin Nuland, M.D., Yale tal; Andrew R. Marks, M.D., University professor and Columbia University; Regina author of numerous books, Morantz-Sanchez, PhD., Uni- including How We Die, served versity of Michigan. as convener of the conference. “With this conference,” In a recent article in The New said Dr. Carl Rheins, YIVO Republic, Dr. Nuland wrote Executive Director, “YIVO about the tradition of the returned to its roots as a place relationship of Jews and med- for rigorous, yet approachable icine. “Viewed in the perspec- intellectual discourse on sub- tive of millennia of jects that have deep historic history…of a society that has roots as well as present-day valued learning almost as importance for the American much as it values life – and Jewish community.” indeed, perceives learning as The conference was made the high road to life and possible through the generous therefore to God – is it any coveted prize in 1977. Even conference and address such support of The Gruss Lipper wonder,” he asks, “that such a today, Jewish women and men contemporary topics as: med- Family Foundation, The David society would hold the prac- enter the practice and science ical ethics, the role of women, Berg Foundation, the New tice of healing to be the of medicine far out of propor- Jews as scientists, the attrac- York State Assembly and indi- greatest good, and therefore tion to their numbers in the tion of the medical field for vidual donors. In connection to hold those who practice it population. Jews, and issues relating to with this conference, the cur- in greatest esteem?” Jews are prominent practi- the boycott of Israeli academi- rent YIVO exhibit focuses on During the Middle Ages and tioners, research scientists, cians and physicians at inter- the subject with artifacts and the Renaissance, Dr. Nuland has teachers and public intellectu- national meetings. documents from the extensive noted, Jews were among the als. And, as in the past, there In addition to Dr. Nuland, YIVO Archives. I leading physicians in Europe, are distinctive Jewish per- North Africa and the Middle spectives on today’s ever- East. In the 20th century, fol- widening possibilities and THE HISTORY OF THE OZE/OSE/TOZ lowing the lead of Paul Ehrlich, moral conundrums of medi- The Society for the Protection of The Health of the Jews the first Jewish Nobel Prize cine and medical science. Exhibit on View at the Center for Jewish History winner in 1908, close to 50 To that end, some of the Through February, 2006 Nobel Prize winners in medicine nation’s most outstanding have been Jewish. Among them experts in medicine and relat- was Rosalyn Yalow, the first ed fields accepted the invita- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (YIVO): Understanding the Eastern Roots Jewish woman to win the tion to participate in the of the Contemporary Jewish Experience

7 CJH NEWS Published by Development News the Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 The Center for Jewish History thanks the many individuals, 212-294-8301 fax: 212-294-8302 foundations, and government agencies whose generosity is website: www.cjh.org essential to the growth of the Center’s dynamic programs and BOARD OF DIRECTORS Robert Sink activities. (A list of donors of $10,000 or more appears on page 9.) Bruce Slovin, Chair Chief Archivist and Project Director Several recent developments highlighted here will lead to an Joseph D. Becker, Vice Chair Diane Spielmann even greater strengthening of the Center. Kenneth J. Bialkin, Vice Chair Director, Lillian Goldman Erica Jesselson, Vice Chair Reading Room Joseph Greenberger, Secretary Lynne Winters Government Support Michael A. Bamberger Director of Production CJH was recently awarded two major grants from the City of Norman Belmonte New York. The first, from the City Council, was for $1,225,000, George Blumenthal PARTNER INSTITUTIONS Eva B. Cohn and the other from the Office of the Manhattan Borough Presi- American Jewish Historical Society David E. R. Dangoor dent for $500,000. These funds will aid the Center in its quest Henry L. Feingold David Solomon, Executive Director Max Gitter American Sephardi Federation to preserve countless collections, provide the most up-to-date Michael Jesselson Esme Berg, Director technology and improve security in the coming year. The Cen- Sidney Lapidus Leo Baeck Institute ter is grateful for the support of New York City Council Speaker Leon Levy Carol Kahn Strauss, Gifford Miller, Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields, Theodore N. Mirvis Executive Director Nancy T. Polevoy and New York City Council Members David Weprin, Christine Yeshiva University Museum Robert S. Rifkind Quinn, Eric Gioia, and Eva Moskowitz. David Solomon Sylvia Herskowitz, Director YIVO Institute For Jewish Research The Center thanks Governor George E. Pataki for his contin- BOARD OF OVERSEERS Carl J. Rheins, Executive Director ued support for the Center with a series of grants through the William A. Ackman New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preser- ACADEMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL Jonathan Baron vation. The grants total $130,000 and will assist the Center Stanley I. Batkin Elisheva Carlebach,Co-Chairman Joseph D. Becker Queens College with its current operations. Also, the Center is very grateful to Tracey Berkowitz Michael A. Meyer, Co-Chairman New York State Assembly Member Deborah J. Glick, who for the Kenneth J. Bialkin Hebrew Union College second year in a row has helped the Center secure a $50,000 Leonard Blavatnik George Blumenthal Todd Endelman Community Capital Assistance Program grant. This award will Abe Foxman University of Michigan be made by the New York State Dormitory Authority and will be Mark Goldman Henry L. Feingold used to upgrade the Center’s security system. Joan L. Jacobson Baruch College Ira H. Jolles David Fishman Harvey M. Krueger Jewish Theological Seminary Planned Giving Sidney Lapidus Leon Levy Ernest Frerichs The Center recently launched a planned giving program to help Ira A. Lipman Brown University ensure its long-term stability. A luncheon to introduce the pro- Theodore N. Mirvis Jane Gerber gram was held on November 2, 2005. Allan Nadler, Professor of Joseph H. Reich Graduate Center of the Robert S. Rifkind City University of New York Jewish Studies at Drew University and the former head of Acad- Stephen Rosenberg Jeffrey Gurock emic Affairs for YIVO, spoke on “Saving the Records of the Jew- Bernard Selz Yeshiva University ish Past to Ensure the Jewish Future.” Neal Myerberg, one of Bruce Slovin Edward L. Steinberg Deborah Dash Moore America’s most knowledgeable authorities on tax and financial Joseph S. Steinberg Vassar College strategies using charitable gift techniques, spoke on “Partner- Michele Cohn Tocci Riv-Ellen Prell ing with the Center to Preserve the Historical Records of the Fred S. Zeidman University of Minnesota Jewish People.” Roy Zuckerberg Jeffrey Shandler Rutgers University Sandi Rubin, CJH Director of Development, said that several STAFF Paul Shapiro individuals, some of whom attended the luncheon, have already Stanley Bergman United States Holocaust created Charitable Gift Annuities, and we anticipate that many Director, Werner J. and Gisella Levi Memorial Museum Cahnman Preservation Laboratory more people will do so. These planned gifts will not only bene- Chava Weissler fit the Center but will provide participants a fixed income for Ira Berkowitz Lehigh University Chief Financial Officer the rest of their lives. Beth S. Wenger Robert Friedman University of Pennsylvania Director, Genealogy Institute Steven J. Zipperstein New Staff Members Join Tony Gill Stanford University Director, CJH Development Team Gruss Lipper Digital Laboratory Editor: Gabrielle Bamberger Tamar Copeland and Julia Levin have recently joined the devel- Michael Glickman Editorial Director: Sandra Rubin opment staff. Tamar, Director of the Annual Campaign, has Director of Public Affairs Design: Flyleaf Natalia Indrimi more than 15 years experience creating resources for nonprofit Program Curator Underwriting for this Newsletter agencies ranging from arts organizations to universities. Julia, Sandra Rubin generously provided by the Grants Manager, has worked in both educational and artistic Director of Development Joseph Alexander Foundation settings within the Jewish community, where her writing and

8 organizational skills strengthened the programs with which she was involved. Both are very well qualified and will surely have Sharing Our Commitment much success in helping to secure new funding to sustain the The Center for Jewish History proudly recognizes the following Center’s operations. donors for their most generous support of its undertaking to preserve the Jewish past and ensure the Jewish future. In addi- New Membership Levels tion to many anonymous gifts, this roster includes major at the Center for Jewish History benefactions received through October, 2005. Many significant As part of the Annual Campaign, which is designed to help gift opportunities remain available at the Center, including the cover the operating expenses of the Center, we have developed naming of outstanding facilities. Please call our Development new annual membership categories. They are as follows: Office at 212-294-8310. FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOUNDERS LILI AND JON BOSSE S. DANIEL ABRAHAM, DR. EDWARD L. LOTTE AND LUDWIG BRAVMANN Supporter $50–$99. A gift at this level entitles the donor STEINBERG - HEALTHY FOODS OF THE ELI AND EDYTHE L. BROAD FOUNDATION to a Friend of the Center card, which provides: AMERICA, LLC THE CAHNMAN FOUNDATION ANONYMOUS CONFERENCE ON JEWISH MATERIAL CLAIMS • Discounts at the book store, on Center tours, events and ANTIQUA FOUNDATION AGAINST GERMANY - RABBI ISRAEL performances, and at the café EMILY AND LEN BLAVATNIK MILLER FUND FOR SHOAH RESEARCH, ESTATE OF SOPHIE BOOKHALTER, M.D. DOCUMENTATION AND EDUCATION • One-year subscription to the Center’s newsletter BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN - C. VIRGINIA THE CONSTANTINER FAMILY • Quarterly calendar of events FIELDS, MANHATTAN BOROUGH PRESIDENT MR. AND MRS. J. MORTON DAVIS • Parking discounts at area garages LEO AND JULIA FORCHHEIMER FOUNDATION DONALDSON, LUFKIN & JENRETTE LILLIAN GOLDMAN CHARITABLE TRUST MICHAEL AND KIRK DOUGLAS Donor $100–$499. All Supporter privileges plus: HORACE W. 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WEINSTEIN For more information, please call our development office at BIALKIN FAMILY FOUNDATION - ANN AND GENEVIEVE AND JUSTIN WYNER I KENNETH J. BIALKIN 212-294-8310. BARBARA AND ROY J. ZUCKERBERG GEORGE BLUMENTHAL ABRAHAM AND RACHEL BORNSTEIN continued on page 11 9 Great Financial Planning with a Center for Jewish History Gift Annuity

People are always concerned about the For joint and survivor annuities (2 lives), The younger the individual is when trend in interest rates. Are they going to the rates reflect longer life expectancies the annuity is established, the longer the continue to rise? If so, how high will than with a single life annuity. Neverthe- deferral period until payments first they go? And why are mortgage rates less, the rates for 2 lives are also gener- begin, the higher the lifetime fixed rate. dropping if short-term interest rates ous. For example: With fixed income investments at seem to be rising? How can an individual their lowest yields in years, finding out build a portfolio of fixed income invest- Age Gift Annuity Rate about a Center for Jewish History Gift ments in these uncertain times. Annuity may be the wisest financial Throughout this period of low interest 65/65 6.3% investment you can make. You can com- rates, individuals have been actively pur- 70/65 6.4% bine your desire to support the important suing the benefits of lifetime, high fixed 75/70 6.8% work of the Center to preserve the histor- rate annuities from charitable organiza- 75/73 6.9% ical records of the Jewish people with the tions. The Center for Jewish History’s Gift comfort of high fixed rate lifetime 80/75 7.3% Annuity program is operated under regu- income for yourself (and another). lations of the New York Insurance 80/78 7.5% Please contact Sandi Rubin, the Cen- Department that are intended to protect 85/80 8.1% ter’s Director of Development, at 212- consumers. The Center’s program provides 90/85 9.2% 294-8312 or by e-mail ([email protected]) generous annuity rates based upon the for a confidential proposal for your own ages of annuitants. Center for Jewish History Gift Annuity. I Since the rates are based upon an annu- Finally, if you are under 65 and would itant’s life expectancy, older individuals like your annuity to commence at age 65 receive larger annuity amounts. You can or at age 70, the Deferred Gift Annuity see from the following table of representa- tables enable you to lock in high lifetime Jonathan Baron tive rates that age is the major factor: fixed rates. Joins Board Age Gift Annuity Rate Age when Age at Gift Annuity Annuity Purchase Rate 55 6.2% Begins of Overseers

60 6.4% 50 65 15.3% The Center is 65 6.7% 50 70 21.7% pleased to welcome Jonathan Baron 70 7.2% 55 65 11.6% 75 7.9% to its Board of 55 70 16.4% Overseers. Jonathan 80 8.9% 60 65 8.7% becomes the 85 10.4% 60 70 12.4% twenty-seventh 90 & over 12.0% 65 70 9.4% member of this distinguished Board, established four years ago to help in the development Bequests and fulfillment of the Center’s mission. Jonathan is the Co-founder, Partner For many individuals, a gift by will or through their revocable living trust to the Cen- and Senior Managing Director for ter for Jewish History is an effective way to accomplish estate and tax planning. A Rockbay Capital Management, a New York bequest may take several forms. Among these are: based hedge fund. Prior to that, Jonathan • A specific amount expressed in dollars or in specified items of property. worked at Davidson Kempner Partners, McKinsey & Co., and Goldman Sachs. • A percentage of the residuary of the estate (the amount available for distribution He is a 1999 graduate of Harvard after specific bequests are paid). Business School, M.B.A.; a 1999 graduate A bequest may be designated for a particular purpose or may be left without of Harvard Law School, J.D.; and holds restriction for the Center to use in its discretion. A bequest may also be endowed so an A.B. in Philosophy and Government that only income and/or portions of principal may be used by the Center to carry out from Harvard College. the purposes set out in the will. When bequests are made to the Center to establish Jonathan is married to Dr. Aimee designated, unrestricted or endowed funds, they may provide that the funds be Baron and has a three-year-old daughter named in honor or in memory of particular individuals, foundations or families. I named Leah. I

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Exhibition Hours Constantiner Date Palm Café DIRECTORY OF THE PARTNERS AND AFFILIATES Mon–Thurs 9:30am–5:30pm Sun–Thurs 11am–4pm OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY Fri 9:30am–3pm Sun 11am–5pm Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Bookstore Partners Mon–Thurs 11am–6pm American Jewish Historical Society 212-294-6160 www.ajhs.org Yeshiva University Museum Hours (from Dec 4) Sun 11am–5pm American Sephardi Federation 212-294-8350 Sun, Tues, Wed, Thurs 11am–5pm (Also open on select evenings; call 917-606-8220) www.asfonline.org Mon 11am–8pm Leo Baeck Institute 212-744-6400 Fri 11am–2pm Contact Info www.lbi.org Box Ofﬁce 917-606-8200 Yeshiva University Museum 212-294-8330 Genealogy Institute Reading Room 917-606-8217 www.yu.edu/museum Mon–Thurs 9:30am–5pm Genealogy Institute 212-294-8318 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 212-246-6080 www.yivoinstitute.org General Information 212-294-8301 Lillian Goldman Reading Room Group Tours 917-606-8226 Afﬁliates Mon–Thurs 9:30am–5pm American Society for Jewish Music 212-294-8328 Fri By appointment only Centro Primo Levi 917-606-8202 Gomez Mill House 212-294-8329 Yemenite Jewish Federation of America 212-294-8327

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possible through the generous generous the through possible Betty and Walter L. Popper Gallery Popper L. Walter and Betty

to Jewish law. This series is made is series This law. Jewish to Through January 29, 2006 29, January Through

and the nature of legal interpretation legal of nature the and

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM UNIVERSITY YESHIVA $10 ($5 FOR LBI MEMBERS) LBI FOR ($5 $10

$8 (MEMBERS $5). (MEMBERS $8

application of his theories on justice on theories his of application Photo-realist Max Ferguson Max Photo-realist

tions and commentary. commentary. and tions

(MEMBERS $8); CHILDREN (AGES 5–17) 5–17) (AGES CHILDREN $8); (MEMBERS $12

phers of our time, will address the address will time, our of phers Jewish Artist's Journey Home / Home Journey Artist's Jewish

D.C. Mr. Frye will be available for ques- for available be will Frye Mr. D.C.

Lighting in the Steinberg Great Hall. Great Steinberg the in Lighting

one of the foremost legal philoso- legal foremost the of one From New York to Jerusalem: Jerusalem: to York New From

man Information Center in Washington, in Center Information man

ﬁrst night of our Annual Hanukkah Annual our of night ﬁrst

University and NYU School of Law, of School NYU and University

ﬁlm, generously supported by the Ger- the by supported generously ﬁlm,

Gallery

After the performance, join us for the for us join performance, the After

Professor Ronald Dworkin, Oxford Dworkin, Ronald Professor

This will be the ﬁrst showing of the of showing ﬁrst the be will This Diane and Mark Goldman/AJHS Mark and Diane

Cafe—Everyone gets a drum to play. to drum a gets Cafe—Everyone

and Interpretation and

tute”, which he produced and directed. and produced he which tute”, Through January 13, 2006 13, January Through

1:30pm & 3:00pm: The Amazing Drum Amazing The 3:00pm: & 1:30pm

mud: Ronald Dworkin on Jewish Law Jewish on Dworkin Ronald mud:

video, “Fifty Years of Leo Baeck Insti- Baeck Leo of Years “Fifty video, AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY HISTORICAL JEWISH AMERICAN

workshops. workshops.

Law’s Empire and the Sea of the Tal- the of Sea the and Empire Law’s

American Jewish Life, 1654–present Life, Jewish American side at a showing of the 30-minute the of showing a at side

adults, family gallery activities, craft activities, gallery family adults, JEWS & JUSTICE SERIES (AJHS) SERIES JUSTICE & JEWS

ﬁlmmaker and documentarian, will pre- will documentarian, and ﬁlmmaker

smith/LBI Gallery smith/LBI WED | DEC 7 | 7PM 7PM | 7 DEC | WED

11am to 5pm: exhibition tours for tours exhibition 5pm: to 11am

Robert Frye, internationally known internationally Frye, Robert

Katherine and Clifford H. Gold- H. Clifford and Katherine

Activities throughout the day the throughout Activities

LBI 50th Anniversary Event Anniversary 50th LBI Advance registration suggested. suggested. registration Advance

$25 Through December 30, 2005 30, December Through

Hanukkah Celebration (YUM) Celebration Hanukkah

TUES | DEC 13 | 7PM | 13 DEC | TUES

research in this two-hour workshop. two-hour this in research

LEO BAECK INSTITUTE BAECK LEO

SUN | DEC 25 DEC | SUN

1830-1945 history family your start to how Learn

DENTS AND SENIORS) AND DENTS

ence of German Jews in America, in Jews German of ence Genealogy Jewish to Introduction

$8 ($4 FOR STUDENTS AND SENIORS) AND STUDENTS FOR ($4 $8

ed States. States. ed ($6 FOR AJHS MEMBERS, STU- MEMBERS, AJHS FOR ($6 $12

Starting Over: The Immigrant Experi- Immigrant The Over: Starting 10:30AM | 7 DEC | TUES

support from the NEH. NEH. the from support

the classical music scene in the Unit- the in scene music classical the

dation for Jewish Culture with major with Culture Jewish for dation

Rosenberg and Winnick Galleries Winnick and Rosenberg Bernstein, and others who dominated who others and Bernstein, Auschwitz. Auschwitz.

1 $ B MEMBERS) LBI ($5 $10

series sponsored by the National Foun- National the by sponsored series

Opening December 4, 2005 4, December Opening Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Leonard Copland, Aaron Gershwin, notoriety in the gas chambers of chambers gas the in notoriety

American Jewish Icons national lecture national Icons Jewish American

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM UNIVERSITY YESHIVA posers of Jewish descent: George descent: Jewish of posers discoveries gained their greatest their gained discoveries

music. This presentation is part of the of part is presentation This music. and American Jewry 1860–1960 Jewry American and

perform music of 20th Century com- Century 20th of music perform man-Jewish Nobel Prize-winner whose Prize-winner Nobel man-Jewish

melody often taken from popular Arab popular from taken often melody A Perfect Fit: The Garment Industry Garment The Fit: Perfect A

The Phoenix Chamber Ensemble will Ensemble Chamber Phoenix The Daniel Charles will speak on this Ger- this on speak will Charles Daniel

hymns written in Hebrew and set to a to set and Hebrew in written hymns

of the 20th Century 20th the of Batkin Mezzanine Gallery Mezzanine Batkin Warfare Chemical of Age the

with them the tradition of pizmonim, of tradition the them with

Jewish-American Classical Composers Classical Jewish-American Constantiner Gallery & Selma L. Selma & Gallery Constantiner Launched Who Laureate Nobel The

Jewish immigrants to America brought America to immigrants Jewish

American Masters: Masters: American Opening November 6, 2005 6, November Opening Haber, Fritz of Fall and Rise The

musicology, Harvard University. Syrian University. Harvard musicology,

MON | DEC 12 | 7:30PM 7:30PM | 12 DEC | MON Master Mind: Mind: Master

YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH JEWISH FOR INSTITUTE YIVO

Dr. Kay Shelemay, Professor of Ethno- of Professor Shelemay, Kay Dr.

Health of Jews of Health LBI LECTURE & BOOK SIGNING BOOK & LECTURE LBI

an-Jewish Pizmonim (ASF) Pizmonim an-Jewish $10 ($5 FOR STUDENTS AND SENIORS) AND STUDENTS FOR ($5 $10 OSE: Society for the Protection of the of Protection the for Society OSE: 7PM | 6 DEC | TUES

tion. tion. Late 19th and Early 20th Century Syri- Century 20th Early and 19th Late

EXHIBITIONS PROGRAMS support of The David Berg Founda- Berg David The of support MON | DEC 19 | 6:30PM 6:30PM | 19 DEC | MON Upcoming Events Upcoming