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350th Anniversary Emma Lazarus Awardee Baseball Card Collectors Edition American Jewish Historical Society 2002 -2003 Gift Roster Over $200,000 Genevieve & Justin L. Wyner $100,000 + Ann E. & Kenneth J. Bialkin Marion & George Blumenthal Ruth & Sidney Lapidus Barbara & Ira A. Lipman $25,000 + Citigroup Foundation Mr. David S. Gottesman Yvonne S. & Leslie M. Pollack Dianne B. and David J. Stern The Horace W. Goldsmith Linda & Michael Jesselson Nancy F. & David P. Solomon Mr. and Mrs. Sanford I. Weill Foundation Sandra C. & Kenneth D. Malamed Diane & Joseph S. Steinberg $10,000 + Mr. S. Daniel Abraham Edith & Henry J. Everett Mr. Jean-Marie Messier Muriel K. and David R Pokross Mr. Donald L. SaundersDr. and Elsie & M. Bernard Aidinoff Stephen and Myrna Greenberg Mr. Thomas Moran Mrs. Nancy T. Polevoy Mrs. Herbert Schilder Mr. Ted Benard-Cutler Mrs. Erica Jesselson Ruth G. & Edgar J. Nathan, III Mr. Joel Press Francesca & Bruce Slovin Mr. Len Blavatnik Renee & Daniel R. 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Poster Mr.& Mrs. Lawrence Jay Weinberg Mr. Dave Coskey Mr. Jay S. Goodgold Mr. Bernard Laterman Mr. Stephen B. Potter Mr. Paul J. Weinstein Mr. and Mrs. Gerald B. Cramer Mr. Leonard Goodman Ms. Marta Jo Lawrence Lt. Col. James N. Pritzker Mr. Joseph T. Yurcik Mr. Denis Cronin Felice W. and David M. Gordis The Lemberg Foundation Mr. Charles J. Rose Lawrence and Carol Zicklin 2 We extend our thanks to the many hundreds of other wonderful donors whose names do not appear here. HERITAGE NEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1 • SPRING 2003 CONTENTS A Letter from

In this issue Kenneth J. Bialkin, 350th President Anniversary Page 5 Naomi Cohen Lecture Page 5 For the past five years, I have had the privilege of serving as South Carolina President of the American Jewish Historical Society. I want to thank all of you whose support for the Society has made this period such an Exhibit exciting one in the Society's own history. During my tenure, the Page 5 Society has undergone perhaps the most dramatic series of changes in its 111 years of existence. Five years ago, the Society had a single New & Noteworthy facility in Waltham, MA, adjacent to the campus of Brandeis Pages 6-7 University, in a building we constructed in 1968. Today, the Society is Hebrew College • New AJHS President • housed in two magnificent new homes: one at the Center for Jewish Mortimer Zuckerman honored • Loeb History in City and the other on the new Moshe Safdie- Portrait Database • New Exhibit designed campus of Hebrew College in Newton, MA. Our precious Celebrates American Jewish Writers • holdings are now stored in state-of-the-art preservation environ- Prizes awarded and more ments. For the first time, we have significant opportunities to mount exhibitions and displays. Calendar of Events During this same period, the Society published its multi-award win- Page 16 ning Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, the Random House American Jewish Desk Reference, the documentary AJHS Bookstore book America Stands with : Washington, DC, April 15, 2002 and a facsimile edition of A Survivor's Haggadah. We created the Archive New Collectors’ of American Jews in Sports, created endowed lectures, formed alliances with a number of other historical organizations and provid- Baseball Cards ed fellowships and support to dozens of researchers, students, Page 9 authors and filmmakers. Our distinguished Academic Council grew larger and stronger. We convened conferences, presented films and Books concerts and awarded book prizes. As never before, the Society is Pages 10-12 contributing to scholarship and to public understanding of the role that Jews have played in the development of American society. Note Cards for I want to thank each of my fellow officers and trustees and the staff Any Occasion of the American Jewish Historical Society for sharing the hard work Page 12 and responsibility of moving the Society forward. I extend my best wishes to my successor, Sidney Lapidus, and hope he experiences all Emma Lazarus the rewards and pleasure I have felt at the helm of this distinguished Collectors Edition and unique organization. Sincerely, Page 13 Posters from the Past Pages 14-15

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AJHS Newsletter Spring 2003 • 3 ~ OFFICERS ~ KENNETH J. BIALKIN President SIDNEY LAPIDUS President Elect EDGAR J. NATHAN III Chairman ALAN M. EDELSTEIN MICHAEL JESSELSON IRA A. LIPMAN NANCY T. POLEVOY LOUISE P. ROSENFELD Vice Presidents MAURICE ZILBER Secretary and Counsel HAROLD S. ROSENBLUTH Associate Secretary EFREM WEINREB Assistant Secretary DAVID P. SOLOMON Treasurer ARTHUR S. OBERMAYER Associate Treasurer ZITA ROSENTHAL Assistant Treasurer PROF. PAMELA S. NADELL Chair, Academic Council MARSHA LOTSTEIN Chair, Council of Jewish Historical Organizations GEORGE BLUMENTHAL LESLIE POLLACK Co-Chairs, Sports Archive JUSTIN L. WYNER Immediate Past President DAVID R. POKROSS Honorary President SHELDON S. COHEN Honorary Chairman WILLIAM M. GINSBURG ROBERT D. GRIES FAYE G. SCHAYER SHERMAN H. STARR Honorary Vice Presidents MICHAEL FELDBERG, PH.D. Executive Director BERNARD WAX Director Emeritus

~ BOARD OF TRUSTEES ~ Blessings of Freedom: Chapters ofAmerican Jewish History. A compilation of essays originally published in M. BERNARD AIDINOFF WALTER ANGOFF The Forward. See page 10 to order. NORMAN ARNOLD KENNETH J. BIALKIN GEORGE BLUMENTHAL ANNE S. BORENSTEIN SHELDON S. COHEN RONALD CURHAN ALAN M. EDELSTEIN DINAH EVAN Help preserve our heritage. HENRY J. EVERETT RUTH FEIN WILLIAM M. GINSBURG RICHARD N. GOLDMAN DAVID M. GORDIS DAVID S. GOTTESMAN ROBERT D. GRIES SUSAN HERTOG Become a member today. MICHAEL JESSELSON LEON A. JICK DANIEL KAPLAN ABRAHAM J. KARP ANDREW KLEIN HARVEY M. KRUEGER The mission of the American Jewish Historical SHALOM E. LAMM AARON LANSKY SIDNEY LAPIDUS PHILIP LAX Society is to foster awareness and appreciation of ROBERT LENZNER IRA A. LIPMAN NORMAN LISS MARSHA LOTSTEIN American Jewish heritage and to serve as a national KENNETH D. MALAMED GILBERT LANG MATHEWS PAMELA S. NADELL EDGAR J. NATHAN, III ARTHUR S. OBERMAYER scholarly resource for research through the collection, JEFFREY S. OPPENHEIM, MD DAVID R. POKROSS NANCY T. POLEVOY LESLIE M. POLLACK preservation and dissemination of materials relating ARNOLD J. RABINOR JEHUDA REINHARTZ HAROLD S. ROSENBLUTH LOUISE P. ROSENFELD to American Jewish history. ZITA ROSENTHAL WALTER ROTH FAYE G. SCHAYER LAWRENCE R. SEDER BRUCE SLOVIN DAVID P. SOLOMON SHERMAN H. STARR JOSEPH S. STEINBERG Use the membership form in the center of MORTON M. STEINBERG SUZANNE L. STONE RONALD S. TAUBER SAUL VIENER this newsletter, call 617-559-8880 SUE R. WARBURG EFREM WEINREB JUSTIN L. WYNER MAURICE ZILBER or visit our website @ www.AJHS.org 4 • American Jewish Historical Society 350th Anniversary of Jewish Settlement in America

In 2004, the people of the will celebrate the 350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in North America. In 1654, a band of 23 Jews expelled by the Portuguese from Recife, Brazil, landed in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. From that day to the present, there has been a permanent Jewish population in what is now the United States. To mark this occasion, the Society will undertake several important tasks and join with other major American institutions to assure the success of the anniversary celebration. A resolution has been introduced into Congress that will des- ignate the American Jewish Historical Society, the Library of Congress, the National Archives and Records Administration and the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives as the founding partners of the Commission to Commemorate 350 Years of American Jewish History. The Commission's activities will include an exhibition on American Jewish history at the Library of Congress that opens in September 2004 and will appear on the Library's website; a national effort to stimulate archival collecting in local Jewish communities; convening the AJHS Academic Council's bienni- al Scholars' Conference at the Library of Congress in June 2004; creation of a website for members of the public with images and information about the anniversary; and distribu- tion of materials to communities that will help them offer anniversary programming in local venues.

Additionally, the Society will partner with Congregation Portrait of Phila Franks, painted in 1735, one of the oldest portraits in the Shearith Israel in New York, the National Foundation for Society’s collection. Jewish Culture, the American Jewish Committee and other national organizations to develop additional programs and In its own right, the Society will publish four special issues of its projects to commemorate the 350th anniversary. The Society journal, American Jewish History, mount exhibitions at the will also work with CUNY-TV, the television service of the City Center for Jewish History in New York and its new facility at University of New York, to create and broadcast educational Hebrew College in Newton, MA, and offer lectures and other programming to mark this anniversary. programming around the United States.

scholars to develop new perspectives in the researching and Naomi Cohen Lecture writing of American Jewish history. Selected by a committee of On January 12, Professor emerita Naomi Cohen of The Jewish the AJHS Academic Council, the lecturer’s paper is published Theological Seminar of America delivered the Society's Harry in the Society's quarterly journal. Elson Memorial Lecture at the Center for Jewish History in New York. Professor Cohen's paper, "The Trans-Atlantic Connection: The American Jewish Committee and the Joint South Carolina Exhibit Foreign Committee in Defense of German Jews 1933-1936," With the Yeshiva University Museum, the Society is currently was responded to by Professor Todd Endelman of the co-sponsoring a traveling exhibition, “A Portion of the People: University of Michigan and Professor Shuly Rubin Schwartz of Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life.” Organized by the Jewish Theological Seminary. Professor Jeffrey Gurock of the McKissick Museum, the South Carolina Jewish Historical Yeshiva University, former chair of the Society's Academic Society and the Special Collections Department of the College Council, convened and chaired the session. Because she was of Charleston, the show illustrates the long history of one of unable to travel, Professor Cohen taped her presentation and the nation's earliest and most significant Jewish communities. professors Endelman and Schwartz responded before the live The exhibition can be viewed until August 2003 in the main audience at the Center for Jewish History. Yeshiva University Museum gallery at the Center for Jewish Ambassador Edward E. Elson endowed the Harry Elson History in . A magnificent catalog accompanies Memorial Lecture, in memory of his father, to encourage the exhibition. AJHS Newsletter Spring 2003 • 5 NEW & NOTEWORTHY

New Massachusetts Home at Honoring Hebrew College Mortimer B. Zuckerman In August 2002, the American Jewish Historical Society relo- US News and Daily News publisher to receive cated its New England facilities from the campus of Brandeis Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award. University to a new home in the Gann Library of Hebrew College, Newton, MA. The Society expects to be fully opera- On Tuesday evening, May 20, 2003, the American Jewish tional at this site in July 2003. The resources at the Society’s Historical Society will present its Emma Lazarus Statue of location include archival and other research holdings relating Liberty Award to Mortimer B. Zuckerman at The Pierre in New to the history of the -area and New England Jewish com- York City. The Emma Lazarus Award has been given only ten munities, traveling exhibitions and public programs such as times since the Society's founding 111 years ago. lectures and films. AJHS will continue to host the Jewish The dinner will honor Mr. Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of US Genealogical Society of Greater Boston at its new home. News and World Report, publisher of The New York Daily Generous gifts from Justin and Genevieve Wyner of Boston and News, chairman of Boston Properties, Inc and chairman of the George and Marion Blumenthal of New York City enabled the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish American Jewish Historical Society to acquire its new facility at Organizations, as an individual whose leadership has signifi- Hebrew College. The facility is known as the Wyner Center of cantly shaped national and international affairs. His dedication the American Jewish Historical Society at Hebrew College. to philanthropy, ethics and Jewish values personify Emma The beautiful new campus of Hebrew College, designed by Lazarus' vision for America. Mr. Zuckerman joins a distin- Moshe Safdie, opened in December 2002. The Society and the guished group of past honorees that includes Edgar Bronfman, College expect to conduct a number of joint programs, partic- , Felix Rohatyn, Beverly Sills, Sanford Weill, ularly in the area of adult education. Aaron Feuerstein, Sylvia Hassenfeld and Elie Wiesel. To assure the timely and orderly move from Brandeis to The Co-Chairs for the Dinner are , Chairman, Hebrew College, Director Emeritus Bernard Wax came out of Clinique Laboratories Inc.; Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, The retirement to help AJHS. We are grateful to Bernie and the Blackstone Group; Jerry I. Speyer, CEO, Tishman Speyer New England staff for their hard work to assure the safe relo- Properties; Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman & CEO, Sony cation of the Society’s precious holdings. Corporation of America; James Tisch, CEO, Loews Corporation; Harvey Weinstein, Chairman, Miramax Films; Lapidus to Succeed Bialkin as Irwin Winkler, CEO, Winkler Films; and John Zuccotti, Chairman, Brookfield Financial Properties. AJHS President The Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award is named for the On May 20, 2003, Sidney Lapidus of Harrison, NY will succeed author of the Society's most precious possession, the original Kenneth J. Bialkin as president of the American Jewish handwritten manuscript of “ The New Colossus,”the sonnet Historical Society. Mr. Lapidus holds an undergraduate degree that adorns the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. from and a degree in law from . Mr. Lapidus currently holds the title of Managing Director and Senior Advisor at E. M. Warburg Pincus, a leading private equity firm. Loeb Portrait Database In addition to serving as an officer of AJHS, Mr. Lapidus is president of the United Neighborhood Houses of New York, A generous grant from Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr. has serves on the Executive Committee of UJA-Federation of New enabled AJHS to create a section of its website, York, the Council of the American Antiquarian Society in http://www.ajhs.org/research/loeb/, for a database that will, Worcester, MA, and the Board of Trustees of the New York over time, contain an image and information describing every University School of Medicine. known portrait, photo, daguerreotype and woodcut of an American Jew painted before 1865. Currently, the database, Fellowships Awarded which contains 60 images and captions, can be viewed by visit- ing the AJHS website and clicking on “ Research Resources,” The Society's Academic Council has awarded this year's Ruth B. Portrait Database.” While the majority of images on this site are Fein fellowships to three doctoral students: Susan Breitzer, owned by AJHS from its extensive collection of pre-1865 por- Department of History, University of Iowa; Alan Howard, traits, silhouettes, daguerreotypes and woodcuts, for this site to Department of History, University of Florida; and Linda achieve comprehensiveness dozens of institutions and individ- Maizels, Melton Centre for Jewish Education, Hebrew uals had to grant permission for AJHS to publish an image of University of . The fellowships allow these individuals works in their collections. We are grateful to each of them for to travel to the Society to conduct research in its archival hold- their cooperation, and to Ambassador Loeb for his steadfast ings at the Center for Jewish History. support of this project. 6 • American Jewish Historical Society NEW & NOTEWORTHY

New Exhibit Celebrates includes facsimiles of unpublished correspondence by such important literary figures as Saul Bellow, Stanley Kunitz, American Jewish Writers Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Susan Sontag, Lionel Trilling, Hannah Arendt and Philip Roth. Of particular importance are A new exhibition celebrating the lives and works of Jewish- two previously unpublished short stories by Isaac Bashevis American writers from Arthur Miller and Penina Moise to Alan Singer. Ginsburg and Hannah Arendt will open in the American Jewish Historical Society's exhibit cases at the Center for Jewish History in New York City. Originally organized by Princeton University's Firestone Library, "Not For Myself Alone: Celebrating Jewish- Shandler Wins Viener Book Prize American Writers" draws together poetry, fiction, drama, essays, Jeffrey Shandler, Professor of Jewish Studies at Rutgers artwork and correspondence from some 75 men and women University, was awarded the Society's prestigious Saul Viener who have enriched American culture across two centuries. The Book Prize for his monograph, While America Watches: exhibition is open to the public without charge Monday Televising the Holocaust, published by the Oxford University through Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and 2:00-5:00 Press. The Viener Prize is awarded to the best book published in p.m. on Sundays, other than holidays. the field of American Jewish history during the past two years. The exhibition features selected works from the Leonard L. Selection of the prizewinner is made by the Society's Academic Milberg ('53) Collection of Jewish-American Writers in Honor Council. of Harold T. Shapiro, Princeton University's president from 1988 to 2001. The exhibition includes Yiddish as well as English- language writers and embraces both the famous and obscure. Visitors will encounter nineteenth-century writer Rebecca News from the Archives Gratz, who served as the model for the character of Rebecca in Among the collections recently donated to the American Sir Walter Scott's novel, Ivanhoe, as well as Emma Lazarus, Jewish Historical Society are the papers of the Schoolman whose poem, "The New Colossus," is engraved on the pedestal Family. Dr. Albert P. and Mrs. Bertha Schoolman's papers of the Statue of Liberty. Twentieth-century writers are also well reflect their dedication to Jewish causes, Israel, Hadassah and represented, including Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, Norman Jewish education. Dr. Schoolman is best known for establishing Mailer and poets such as Ginsburg, C. K. Williams and Robert Camp Cejwin in Port Jervis, NY in 1919. Pinsky. Also donated were the papers of Rabbi Leon Kronish. Rabbi Photographic portraits of the writers and eight original carica- Kronosh, a passionate Zionist devoted to liberal Judaism, tures by David Levine, coupled with a wide array of letters and served as spiritual leader to the Jews of South Florida and his manuscripts, complement the published works in the exhibi- congregation at Temple Beth Sholom in Miami. tion. These include such treasures as the first edition of Henry The Society is pleased to announce the donation of the Roth's novel, Call it Sleep, complete with its dust jacket. archives of the City Athletic Club to its collections. The CAC, A special issue of the Princeton University Library Chronicle, founded in 1908 as a sports and social club for a Jewish mem- featuring 27 previously unpublished original essays and short bership, provided a haven for its members, many of whom had stories and 46 original poems by and about Jewish-American been excluded from joining other clubs of the day because writers, accompanies the exhibition. This 392-page issue also they were Jews.

Who was the only Jew to appear on a piece of American currency? Judah P. Benjamin (1811 - 1884), a Yale graduate, attorney, United States sena- tor from Louisiana and Attorney General, Secretary of War and Secretary of State for the Confederacy, appeared on the Confederacy's $2 bill - the only time an American Jew has been so honored. At the right is an image of one such bill, part of the Judah P. Benjamin Collection at the American Jewish Historical Society.

AJHS Newsletter Spring 2003 • 7 Your family records might be appropriate for our archives. Virtually every book or documentary film about American Jewish another institution any donated material we deem unsuitable for history and life written today depends on research conducted at our mission. Your unrestricted donations of archival material are the American Jewish Historical Society. Our records span 349 considered tax deductible. We will provide you with inventory years including today. Your family’s history might add another forms and will acknowledge your donation. Your tax advisor can dimension and layer to our collections. Your old photographs, explain how the IRS permits you to value your gift up to $5000 family letters and diaries, military records, immigration docu- without appraisal. If you believe that your collection may be worth ments, scrapbooks of sports, educational, or community achieve- above $5000, you will require a professional appraisal (which we ments or records of organizations to which family members cannot provide) to obtain maximum tax benefits. belonged, might be useful to scholars writing the history of our Upon receipt of your Archival Membership Fee of $500 we will people in this nation. We are actively seeking any materials reflect- send you labeled cartons and blank inventory lists so you can send ing Jewish counter-culture in the 1960’s as well as many other your donation of materials to AJHS. You will receive simple aspects of living in America in the 20th century. Your papers will instructions and materials for identifying objects, papers, and pic- be evaluated with respect and care. tures. Additional cartons of suitable material may be donated to When you elect to Join AJHS at our Archival Membership level, AJHS for a processing fee of $250 per standard carton. To receive ($500) or higher, you will receive all the benefits of Subscription further information Please fill out and mail the form on the membership, PLUS we will give you two strong acid-free archival enclosed envelope, call 212-294-6167 or you submit it on the cartons for you to fill and donate to AJHS. Donated items deemed internet at www.ajhs.org/membership. appropriate for our collections will be placed in our archives. We All additional donations of material to AJHS are subject to the reserve the right to return to you, to dispose of, or to transfer to same tax deductibility terms.

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BEYOND WORDS JEWISH WOMEN IN AMERICA: A Holocaust History in sixteen woodcuts done in An Historical Encyclopedia 1945 by Miklos Adler, a Hungarian survivor. Edited, 2 volumes. Edited by Paula E. Hyman and Deborah with an introduction and commentary, by Saul Dash Moore Sponsored by the American Jewish Touster. Contains facsimiles of the woodcuts and a Historical Society. Winner of the American Library separately bound volume with Professor Touster's Association's prestigious Dartmouth Medal Award AMERICA STANDS WITH ISRAEL commentary, bound in a folio box. • $100 "for the creation of reference works of outstanding This limited edition volume captures the excitement quality and significance." Winner of the Jewish Book of the historic National Rally in Solidarity with Israel SURVIVOR’S HAGGADAH Council's National Jewish Book Award for Women's in Washington, DC, April 15, 2002. On short notice, In the winter of 1945, Holocaust survivors in Studies and the Barbara Dobkin Honorary Award. the American Jewish Community, supported by Displaced Persons camps around Munich created an AJHS members • $79. Non-members • $99. numerous non-Jewish friends of Israel, converged at extraordinary, illustrated Haggadah in preparation the Capitol in an unprecedented outpouring of soli- HOOPSKIRTS AND HUPPAHS for the first Passover after liberation. This very rare darity with Israel and support for the war on global A Chronicle of the Early Years of the Garfunkel- document is now available in facsimile, with transla- terrorism. The rally's resounding message reverber- Trager Family in America, 1856-1920. tion and commentary, from the American Jewish ated in Washington, Jerusalem and around the Written by Milton M. Gottesman. Published by Historical Society. The edition is limited to 500 num- world. America Stands with Israel contains more American Jewish Historical Society, New York. 96 bered copies. than 200 color photos, transcripts of the speeches pages, 6" x 9", cloth bound, with 37 period photo- In 1996, Saul Touster, professor emeritus at Brandeis and participant comments recording this historic graphs, 91 endnotes, appendix, glossary, and an University, found this 1946 Haggadah among the event. Edited by Michael Feldberg, Executive introduction by Professor Jeffrey S. Gurock. Subjects papers of his father, a former president of HIAS. Director of AJHS, and others, the book contains an include: Deeply moved by the text and powerful graphics, introduction by Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice - Two mid-19th century rabbis who make their liv- Touster began an extensive journey of research into President of the Conference of Presidents of Major ings as hoopskirt manufacturers and minister to the book's origins and creators. The author of this American Jewish Organizations. their congregations in South Carolina and New York self-styled "Supplement to the Passover Haggadah," Hardcover • $29.95. Paperback • $19.95. on a pro bono basis. Yosef Dov Sheinson, was a Kovno survivor of four - A hoopskirt salesman who briefs Union Army offi- years of camps. In it, he parallels the Biblical narra- cers on Confederate military preparations and tive of deliverance from Pharaoh's Egypt with sur- becomes a freelance intelligence operative with a vival in Hitler's Europe, and weaves through it a pas- personal introduction from General Grant to the sionate Zionist yearning for the Promised Land. commanding general of the Union Army in Enhancing the whole, he incorporates seven har- Washington. rowing wood cuts by the Hungarian artist and sur- - A home in Columbia, South Carolina, that is spe- vivor Miklos Adler. Strangely enough, unknown to cially protected by Union army officers from the one another, Sheinson and Adler both spent the first conflagration that consumes the rest of the city dur- weeks after liberation in Theresienstadt. ing Sherman's March to the Sea. In this edition, Touster draws upon the literature of - Vignettes of the 19th century Jewish communities the Holocaust--poems, memoirs, and visions of sur- in Charleston, Columbia, Savannah, Cincinnati, and vivors--to help illuminate this extraordinary testa- New York City. • $18. ment. A Survivor's Haggadah comprises a complete facsim- ile of the original that was published by the U.S. BLESSINGS OF FREEDOM Third Army--the Army of Occupation - through one Blessings of Freedom is a collection of vignettes and of its chaplains, Rabbi Abraham J. Klausner, famous episodes that, taken together, limn the overriding for his work among the survivors of Dachau. With a directions and tendencies of the much larger tapes- translation, it includes an introduction, commen- try that comprises the American Jewish experience. tary, and notes by Professor Touster. Only 500 num- Starting in 1997, the American Jewish Historical bered copies of this edition have been printed. Society published a weekly feature entitled Blessings The book is 128 pages and measures 8"x10 3/8". It of Freedom: Chapters in American Jewish History in was designed and produced by Scott-Martin Kosofsky the English-language Forward and other newspa- at The Philidor Company in Cambridge, MA and INDEX TO PUBLICATIONS OF THE pers. This volume comprises 120 of the best printed in high-resolution duotone by Mercantile AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY columns, organized according to subject and period. Printing in Worcester, MA on Mohawk Superfine Volumes 21-50 [1913-1961], 51-80[1961-1991] Each chapter is a window through which the reader paper. 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THE LEHMANS FACING THE NEW WORLD The Lehmans are one of America's most prominent Jewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal America German-Jewish . Their ancestor, Abraham This book has been published in conjunction with Lehmann (1785-1865), lived in the Bavarian village exhibition Facing the New World: Jewish Portraits in of Rimpar. After their emigration to Montgomery, Colonial and Federal America, presented at The Alabama, in the middle of the nineteenth century, Jewish Museum, New York, September 21,1997- his sons founded the banking firm of January 11, 1998, and at The Maryland Historical Brothers, today one of the most prestigious on Wall Society, Baltimore, February 19, 1998-May 24, 1998. THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN AMERICA Street. Edited by Richard Brilliant, with an essay by Ellen Feingold, Henry, ed. The Jewish People in America. Abraham Lehmann's descendants including Smith, this publication contains numerous color 5 volumes. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Herbert H. Lehman, governor and senator form and black and white images. • $25. Press, for the American Jewish Historical Society, New York, , chief justice of the New 1992. • $15 each York State Court of Appeals, , who LOOKING BACKWARD Volume I - A Time for Planting gave his world-renowned art collection to the True Stories From Chicago's Jewish Past In the Autumn of 1654, twenty-three Jews aboard the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Edgar M. Bronfman, The History of Jews in Chicago is a fascinating, com- bark Sainte Catherine landed at the town of New Jr., CEO of Seagrams Corporation, Robert M. plex and largely unknown story. Thanks to the Amsterdam to establish the first permanent Jewish Morgenthau, New York County district attorney, unstinting efforts of Walter Roth, much of this his- settlement in North America. In A Time for John L. Loeb, Jr., former U.S. ambassador to tory has been preserved. Now, for the first time, this Planting, Eli Faber recounts these earliest days of Denmark, Sir Philip Goodhart, former Conservative material has been distilled into a single volume, Jewish life in America, as Jews from Lisbon to member of the British Parliament, Lord William chronicling events and people from the late nine- Amsterdam to London extended the wanderings of Goodhart, co-founder of the Liberal Democratic teenth century to the end of World War II. There their centuries-old diaspora. Party of Great Britain, and Eva Lehmann are six broad themes, each of which includes sever- Thalheimer, a first cousin of Governor Lehman. Eva al essays: the first of which is "Chicago Jews and the Volume II - A Time for Gathering Thalheimer was killed in Treblinka. Secular City: Builders, Movers, Shakers," which Between 1820 and 1880, European Jews arrived in In June 1996, members of the from includes such topics as H.L. Meites' 1924 history of the United States in ever greater numbers. While the United States and England congregated in Chicago Jews; financier Lazarus Silverman; the later Jewish immigrants would criticize their "rush" Rimpar to pay tribute to their forebears and the vil- Centennial; Jewish participa- to assimilation, the Jews of this period created the lage's Holocaust victims. In a personal message, U.S. tion in the World's Columbian Exposition, and the institutions that continue to shape Jewish life in president Bill Clinton wrote: "Germans and Jewish Day Pageant at the Century of Progress in America. In A Time for Gathering, Hasia Diner Americans alike are proud to claim this family as 1933. The other five themes are "Chicago Jews and describes this "second wave" of Jewish migration. their own, and their ongoing success is a testament Anti-Semitism"; "Chicago Jews and Zionism"; Volume III - A Time for Building to the spirit and values of both our nations." "Renowned Visitors"; "Chicago Jews and the Arts," The years between 1880 and 1920 marked the third This second edition of The Lehmans includes an and "Chicago Jews on Both Sides of the Law." great migration of Jews to the U.S.-including more additional chapter that tells the story behind the Anyone interested in Chicago history, ethnic histo- than two million from the , - highly emotional gathering in Rimpar • $15. ry, Jewish history, will find Looking Backwards a fas- Hungary, and Rumania. A Time for Building cinating and informative read. • $27.95 describes the experiences of Jews who stayed in the THE LEVY FAMILY AND MONTICELLO large cities of the Northeast and Midwest as well as Each year more than a half-million people from those who moved to smaller towns in the deep South around the world visit Monticello, but few people and the West. realize that Jefferson's house was also home to the Volume IV - A Time for Searching family of Uriah P. Levy and his nephew Jefferson Henry Feingold chronicles the turbulent period Monroe Levy. Even fewer realize that without the For between 1920 and 1945-when Jews were poised to Levy family's stewardship, there might not be a Readers enter the mainstream of American life-and explores Monticello to visit. issues that would preoccupy America's Jewish com- In a story filled with drama, irony, political wrangling of all munity for the rest of the century. Despite the and legal battles, Professor Melvin I. Urofsky cor- Ages! specter of anti-semitism, signs of success and accept- rects the misconception that a "century of ruin and ance were everywhere. neglect" marked Monticello between Jefferson's death and the creation of the Thomas Jefferson Volume V - A Time for Healing Foundation, the private, nonprofit organization that A Time for Healing chronicles a time of rapid eco- today owns and operates Monticello. nomic and social progress. Yet this phenomenal suc- JEWISH HEROES OF THE WILD WEST The story of the Levys and Monticello is a story of cess, explains Edward S. Shapiro, came at a cost. Designed for young readers and adapted from Jews the blending of cultures and personalities, of Shapiro takes seriously the potential threat to Jewish Among the Indians by M.L. Marks, Jewish Heroes of Yankees and Virginians, of Jews and Christians, of culture posed by assimilation and intermarriage-ask- the Wild West contains the true stories of four immi- city folk and rural people. It is the story of the power ing if the Jewish people, having already endured so grant men who played exciting roles in various of a symbol, and how in America such symbols cut much, will survive America's freedom and affluence aspects of Western development during the nine- across lines of religion and class and ethnicity. And as well. teenth century. behind all of this is the presence of Thomas Members • $8.75. Non-mmbers • $10.95. Jefferson • $18. 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THE JEWISH JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT REVISITED: BRANDEIS TO FORTAS Of the thirty-nine Justices who sat on the United States Supreme Court between 1916 and 1969, five were Jewish: Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur J. Goldberg, and Abe Fortas. With a Preface by Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Introduction by Justice Ruth Bader Greetings Ginsburg, The Jewish Justices of the Supreme Court devotes a chapter to each of these Jewish Justices. for the Lowe, Jennifer M., ed. The Jewish Justices of the best of Supreme Court Revisited: Brandeis to Fortas. Washington, D.C.: The Supreme Court Historical times ... Society and the American Jewish Historical Society, 1994. Paperback • $10.

CONGRESSIONAL MINYAN Since 1841, the first year a Jew was elected to the United States Congress, 179 Jewish men and women have served in either the House or Senate. Some were so unrecognizable in their Jewishness as to be all but invisible. Others were the product of families steeped in the religious customs, practices and tradi- tions of their fathers and mothers. The members of this "Congressional Minyan" have little in common save their ancestry. They have been Democrats and Republicans, Whigs and Socialists, radicals and reac- tionaries. In short, the dramatic personae compris- ing "The Congressional Minyan" is a microcosm of America. • $29

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“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

EMMA LAZARUS’S SONNET, "THE NEW COLOSSUS" The stirring words of "The New Colossus" are almost as familiar to most Americans as the national anthem. These words were penned in November 1883 by American Jewish poet Emma Lazarus, in her ode to the Statue of Liberty. Today her sonnet is considered one of the classic documents of American history. In 1976, the original handwritten version of the sonnet traveled across the nation as part of our Bicentennial celebration. Now, you can own your own copy of Lazarus's stirring poem in her own hand. After Emma Lazarus died, her family bequeathed to the Society the personal notebook in which Lazarus hand wrote a copy of her favorite work. The American Jewish Historical Society has produced a limited edition of framed facsimiles of Lazarus's masterpiece. You can pur- chase one from the Society for your home or office or for a school or library in your community. 16 x 20” framed and matted Emma Lazarus Sonnet • $120. Members • $100.

See page 14 for ordering & shipping information. AJHS Newsletter Spring 2003 • 13 AJHS BOOKSTORE Yiddish Theater Posters Beautiful, historic and charming Yiddish Theater J. EAST SIDE SADIE Posters reproduced from the originals in our Circa 1929. “A $100,000 production. Thrilling from begin- ning to end. The greatest and most interesting that you have archives. None of these posters are known to be ever seen. It took a year to produce. You will weep and laugh commercially available. Museum quality printing until you cry when you see ‘ East Side Sadie.’ ” Producer: on acid-free paper using ultraviolet resistant inks. Worldart Film Company. Director: Sidney Goldin. Printed by Universal Theatrical Corporation, New York, N.Y.; Original proportions are approximately 28 x 42 silkscreen in orange, aqua, black and pink; 28 x 41 in. inches. Available in a choice of standard sizes, K. THE MESSIAH IS COMING posters will have a white border and are suitable Circa 1937. Music: . 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P Q R S AJHS Newsletter Spring 2003 • 15 3RD ANNUAL HANK GREENBERG SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD DINNER. DINNER. AWARD SPORTSMANSHIP GREENBERG HANK ANNUAL 3RD 9 JUNE - FOCUS* 19 MAY - AIRES* BUENOS IN ATTACKS UNSOLVED THE TERROR: WITH LIVE TO 10 SEPTEMBER THRU 10 APRIL - ALONE MYSELF FOR NOT M A F J Date to be announced. be to Date Miller, Robert mins. 106 2001, USA, Slavin, Neal by Directed Focus. novel, Miller Arthur the on based film feature A Anti- series, the of Part subtitles. English with Spanish in mins., 56 2002, USA, Vriens, Ton by film Documentary the from selected present, the to 1798 from authors American Jewish by books rare and editions first of exhibition An producer and son of the author, will speak. Part of the series, Anti-Semitism: A History of Hatred, presented by the 5 the by presented Hatred, of History A Anti-Semitism: series, the of Part speak. will author, the of son and producer stu- for $3.50 $7; pm, 7:00 History. Jewish for Center the of partners 5 the by presented Hatred,* of History A Semitism: and drawings photographs, correspondence, contains Also University. Princeton at Collection Milberg L. Leonard u IRVING BERLIN AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK - SEPTEMBER 2003 SEPTEMBER - SONGBOOK AMERICAN THE OF MAKING THE AND BERLIN IRVING partners of the Center for Jewish History. Jewish for Center the of partners seniors. dents, memorabilia. a Selma L. Batkin Mezzanine Gallery, September, 2003 September, Gallery, Mezzanine Batkin L. Selma p ARCHIVIST ACHIEVEMENT AWARD PRESENTATION - JUNE 10 10 JUNE - PRESENTATION AWARD ACHIEVEMENT ARCHIVIST 20 MAY - DINNER AWARD LIBERTY OF STATUE LAZARUS EMMA THE 27 APRIL - AMERICA IN COMPOSERS CENTURY 20TH a FILM SERIES - FALL 2003 & WINTER 2004 2004 WINTER & 2003 FALL - SERIES FILM John Taylor, of the National Archives will be honored. Author Robert Caro will speak. will Caro Robert Author honored. be will Archives National the of Taylor, John for 935-1840 212 Office: Benefit Call invitation. By City. York New Pierre, The Zuckerman. B. Mortimer Honoring Ronn and Wolpe Stefan Weill, Kurt Schoenfield, Paul Schoenberg, Arnold Rathaus, Karol by works featuring Concert, n l Titles and dates to be announced. be to dates and Titles 6:30 pm reception, 7:30 pm program. pm 7:30 reception, pm 6:30 information. piano; Stern-Wolfe, Mimi piano; Valjarevic, Vladimir piano; Pirone, Donald soprano; Prunty, Patricia artists and Yedidia Ronn Yedidia, piano trio; and the Downtown Chamber Players. Co-sponsored with the American Society for Jewish for Society American the with Co-sponsored Players. Chamber Downtown the and trio; piano Yedidia, Ronn r l 5TH ANNUAL CHANUKAH CONCERT - DECEMBER 2003 DECEMBER - CONCERT CHANUKAH ANNUAL 5TH y KLEZMER EN BUENOS AIRES - MAY 31 MAY - AIRES BUENOS EN KLEZMER Music. 3:00 pm, $8 adults, $4 students and seniors. and students $4 adults, $8 pm, 3:00 Music. American Society for Jewish Music. Leo and Julia Forzheimer Auditorium, Center for Jewish History. Jewish for Center Auditorium, Forzheimer Julia and Leo Music. Jewish for Society American e Concert featuring Cesar Lerner, piano, accordion, percussion; and Marcelo Moguilevsky, clarinet, flutes, vocals. flutes, clarinet, Moguilevsky, Marcelo and percussion; accordion, piano, Lerner, Cesar featuring Concert

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