I The Center for is one of the great public Jewish historical and cultural institutions in the world. As the campus to its five partner organizations — American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research — the Center has achieved recognition as a venue of unrivaled historical documentation and scholarship, imaginative exhibitions of Judaic art and artifacts, and vital public dialogue. The collections of its partners total over 500,000 volumes and 100 million archival documents. Spanning more than 600 years of Jewish history, the collections include thousands of pieces of artwork, textiles and ritual objects, as well as music, films and photographs. They comprise, taken as a whole, the largest repository of the modern Jewish experience outside of .

Since opening its doors to the public in October 2000, the Center for Jewish History has become the foremost Jewish research and cultural institution in City, enabling the history of the Jewish people to come alive through an array of scholarship and cultural programming. A prime destination for scholars from around the world, the Center is housed in a building that is as multifaceted as the institutions and collections found within its walls. The Center brings together rich and diverse records of all aspects of contemporary Jewish communities, including resources on all major cultural, geographic and religious The Valentin M. Blavatnik Orientation Theater offers denominations of Jewish life. visitors an informative and engaging introductory film on the wealth of resources and programs offered at the Center for Jewish History. The Orientation Theater is also suited for both intimate lectures and multimedia- based presentations, and it is technologically equipped for simulcasting programs and viewing archival images. Visit us online at www.cjh.org. II 1 lillian goldman reading room ackman & ziff family Culture, Scholarship and Ideas: genealogy institute The Cornerstone of the Center’s Mission The Lillian Goldman Reading Room, often described as the heart of the Center, is the gateway The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute for exploring the diverse history of the Jewish is the single largest Jewish genealogical center people through the collections housed at the Center in the . It provides an enormous for Jewish History. Its design combines modern wealth of genealogical resources through the convenience with a dignified, traditional ambience. partners’ collections, as well as a variety of fact The staff is comprised of multilingual and exper- sheets ranging from “how to” guides for the ienced librarians, archivists and historians who are beginner to advanced research guides for the on hand six days a week to provide access to the seasoned researcher. collections and assist researchers with their work. Many resources, including some of the most The open-stack collection includes reference texts comprehensive subscription databases, are access- and the Center partners’ publications. An extensive ible both on-site and online. Extensive microfilm electronic resource library is also available through collections are available to researchers, including public computer terminals. Archive and library those on indefinite loan from the Family History collections consist of 500,000 volumes in multiple Library, which contain birth, marriage and death languages (e.g., Hebrew, , Russian, German, records. Genealogy specialists are available Polish, French) and over 100 million documents, six days a week to assist patrons with their family including organizational records and personal history research projects. papers, photographs, multimedia recordings, posters, art and artifacts. www.genealogy.cjh.org

www.readingroom.cjh.org

2 3 online public access catalog

The Center for Jewish History continues to develop The Center continues to foster the expansion innovative search tools, finding aids and collection- of the OPAC through an investment of more than based websites that enhance the ways in which a $5 million in support from the Andrew W. Mellon person can interact with over 600 years of Jewish Foundation, the Leon Levy Foundation and many history. One of the Center’s greatest accomplish- other generous individuals, foundations and ments is the creation of its Online Public Access government agencies. It was initially made possible Catalog (OPAC), which allows users to search by a grant from the National Historical Publications with a single click through all of the partners’ & Records Commission (NHPRC), a division of collections, whether for archival materials, library the United States National Archives. books, museum objects or their digital surrogates. A rarity in the library world, the OPAC went live www.collections.cjh.org in 2007 and has grown to house more than 600,000 bibliographic records and digital images. The OPAC will eventually provide detailed information on every collection in the building. Growing by leaps and bounds each year, it has received over 1 million visitors from more than 100 countries.

scholarship at the center

The Center for Jewish History works to support The Center’s Graduate Fellowship Program has and advance scholarship, to expand the reach of its directly supported more than 50 Ph.D. candidates partners’ rich collections and to impact the wide as they used material in the partners’ collections to world of scholarship. Working with complete their dissertations. In 2010, the National an elite group of academic advisors, the Center Endowment for the Humanities recognized the continues to increase its offerings and further Center for Jewish History as one of 25 elite research engage the public in its scholarly work. institutions around the world and funded its Fellowship Program for Senior Scholars, making the As the Center enters its second decade, it Center the first and only Jewish studies institution continues to attract diverse thinkers from a multi- to receive such validation since the establishment tude of disciplinary backgrounds and support of the NEH program 40 years ago. The Center also a community of scholars so that the partners’ offers Prins Fellowships to international junior collections are used for a variety of academic scholars and Undergraduate Research Fellowships endeavors. The goal is to provide avenues through to outstanding college students, and it hosts a which scholars can receive guidance from Visiting Scholars Program that provides accom- experienced professionals, coordinate with other plished scholars the benefits of working within a researchers for future projects, present research vibrant research community. The Center’s Joseph S. findings and find resources that allow them Steinberg Emerging Jewish Filmmaker Fellowship to move forward with their scholarly agendas. supports the production of documentary films that make use of the collections housed here.

www.research.cjh.org

4 5 Preserving Jewish History

The Collection Management and Conservation the werner j. and gisella levi cahnman Wing opened to the public in spring 2011. It preservation laboratory serves the critical comprises the Shelby White & Leon Levy Archival tasks of stabilizing, maintaining and prolonging Processing Laboratory, the Gruss Lipper Digital the life of the partners’ extensive paper-based Laboratory, the Werner J. and Gisella Levi Cahnman collections, which are subject to deterioration due Preservation Laboratory, and additional space for to environmental conditions, age and handling. working with sound and photo archives. Visitors The Preservation Lab reformats brittle materials, can observe and learn about the behind-the- treats items damaged by use, and preserves and scenes operations of archivists, technicians and re-houses collections in customized protective preservation experts as they make irreplaceable containers and sleeves. Without these preservation original documents, objects and recordings efforts, many materials — some of which date available for study and enjoyment. back hundreds of centuries — would not be available to the public. the shelby white & leon levy archival processing laboratory serves as a state-of- the center for jewish history the-art permanent home for ongoing archival institutional archive contains the records projects. As archivists work to continue providing of the Center, from the earliest conversations about researchers with the highest level of access to the the possibilities of bringing this institution to collections housed at the Center, visitors can view life, to the most recent celebrations of our tenth the process of archival collections management anniversary as the home of one of the world’s and recognize its importance in the larger world of great collections of modern Jewish history. These Jewish history. The Archival Lab is also a launching records are stored in archival boxes sponsored ground for future collection-based projects. by Center patrons.

the gruss lipper digital laboratory www.search.cjh.org The Gruss Lipper Digital Laboratory works in concert with the other labs, providing the public with high-quality digital multimedia facsimiles of items from the partners’ collections. Its experienced staff works with high-tech collection management systems to produce images, audio files and other digital resources that make delicate and vulnerable treasures from the partners’ archives accessible to a wide audience. All of the digital material is then made available online.

The Cahnman Preservation Laboratory

The Shelby White & Leon Levy Archival Processing Laboratory

6 7 2004 The Center dedicates Luminous Manuscript, an 2007 The Center vastly expands its services in the Celebrating a Decade of Distinction outstanding work of art by Diane Samuels area of family-history research with the launch on permanent display in the Center’s Paul S. and of the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Sylvia Steinberg Great Hall. It is commissioned Institute, the single largest Jewish genealogical and generously underwritten by the the Joseph S. center in the United States. and Diane H. Steinberg Charitable Trust. Luminous Manuscript is comprised of more than 2008 More than 200,000 visitors have now partici- 80,500 pieces of glass and 440 underlying pated in public programs, viewed exhibitions of stone tiles, and it features 112,640 art and artifacts, and recognized the Center individual alphabet characters from 57 writing 1892 American Jewish Historical Society is founded 1998 The Center is awarded an unprecedented as a prime cultural destination in . in New York. $2 million grant from the National Historical systems, as well as engravings of 170 documents Publications and Records Commission from the partners’ archives—truly representing (NHRPC), authorized by the United States the multifaceted aspects of the collections 2009 The Center launches its first multidimensional 1925 The Yiddish Scientific Institute — later renamed Congress, to create an integrated online housed at the Center. program, “The History of Genocide Initiative,” YIVO Institute for Jewish Research — is founded public access catalog. This effort brings new which includes an international conference, in Vilna, Poland (now , ). comprehensive digitization of archival materials, synergy to the efforts of the Center and its 2005 The Valentin M. Blavatnik Orientation Theater a multisensory exhibition and a series of public partner institutions. opens as one of the first institutional media programs stemming from the papers of Raphael 1955 Leo Baeck Institute is founded in New York, theaters designed specifically for viewing with affiliates in and Jerusalem (and Lemkin, which are housed at the American Jewish 1999 American Sephardi Federation joins the Center archival images. later ). Historical Society. Lemkin is best known for as its fifth partner, officially making 15 West coining the term “genocide” and is considered The Gruss Lipper Digital Laboratory opens 16th Street the central address for the history to have been the motivating force behind the as a state-of-the-art digitization facility. The 1973 American Sephardi Federation is founded in of from all geographic origins and United Nations Convention on the Prevention combination of environmental controls New York City. communities worldwide. and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. and sophisticated technology make it possible Yeshiva University Museum is founded in to produce high-quality digital images of 2000 The Center for Jewish History opens its doors, New York City. materials in the partners’ collections. 2010 Zero to Ten: First Decades/New Centuries opens as forever transforming the study of modern a highlight exhibition that presents books, Jewish history for students, scholars and the documents and artifacts, many of them treasures 2006 The Center for Jewish History becomes an 1994 The idea of a center for Jewish history is born. general public. on display for the first time, from the collections affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, joining Prominent members of the academic and of all five partners. To expand the reach of this philanthropic communities bring together four a roster of national organizations devoted 2001 The Center’s Academic Advisory Council effort, all of the materials are digitized and the pioneering Jewish organizations — American to sharing America’s artistic, scientific and hosts an international conference, “Centers of images are compiled into a permanent online Jewish Historical Society, Leo Baeck Institute, historic heritage. Modern Jewish Studies,” to mark the inaugura- exhibition: www.cjh.org/ten. Yeshiva University Museum and YIVO Institute tion of the institution as a major resource in The Lillian Goldman Reading Room, often for Jewish Research — with the goal of creating Over 1 million people in more than Jewish scholarship. described as the heart of the Center, has now one institution to house and make accessible 100 countries around the world have now served more than 25,000 researchers from the single largest archive of recorded Jewish accessed the collections of the Center’s around the world. Another 20,000 researchers cultural history outside the state of Israel. 2002 The Center establishes the “Jews and Justice” five partners through its online public access are assisted over the next four years. series, with the support of the David Berg catalog: www.collections.cjh.org. Foundation, to host lectures and colloquia that 1995 Bruce Slovin is elected Chairman of the Board examine Jewish contributions to the develop- of the newly-formed Center for Jewish History. 2007 The Center’s Online Public Access Catalog The Center celebrates its first decade with the ment and practice of law and legal institutions. (OPAC) goes live to the public, enabling anyone, completion of a hugely successful one-year anywhere in the world, to search the partners’ capital campaign that raised $30 million to pay 1996 The Center is dedicated with a ribbon-cutting The Graduate Fellowship Program is created to holdings. The OPAC is one of the first of off its mortgage, opening a wide array of future ceremony. Construction begins to combine support emerging scholars as they complete its kind, providing access to books, archival possibilities to it as a debt-free institution. a landmark building on West 16th Street with their dissertations. More than 50 students have collections and museum objects in a single adjacent buildings on West 17th Street into received fellowship funding to date. searchable database: www.collections.cjh.org. one imposing 125,000-square-foot facility for 2011 Bruce Slovin, the Center’s founder, is documentation, preservation, research, recognized for his visionary leadership as he 2003 The Samberg Family History Program is The Center works to triple the number of acces- scholarship, exhibitions and public program- concludes his term as Chairman. William A. founded. It teaches teenagers genealogical sible archival materials with the help of the ming. An additional 25,000 square feet is Ackman and Joseph S. Steinberg are elected research techniques and assists them as they Leon Levy Foundation. Over 1,200 linear feet of added in 2003. Co-Chairmen of the Board. develop and complete independent projects archival materials of the Center’s partners are about their family histories. processed over the next three years.

8 9 A Resource, Venue and Destination

The Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Great Hall offers an elegant and versatile space that is used for public programs, temporary exhibitions and special events. Gracing the Great Hall are two permanent art installations that are rich with meaning, historical value and visual beauty.

Biblical Species by Michele Oka Doner is a 4,000-square- foot lyrical terrazzo floor depicting botanical species. Inspired by a story from the , it is embedded with aluminum, bronze and mother-of-pearl to illustrate the shivat haminim, or seven species, that Moses’s scouts brought back to show that the “flows with milk and honey.” Its mixture of materials melds the ancient with the contemporary — a fusion that perfectly reflects the Center’s mission and philosophy.

10 11 Culture, Scholarship and Ideas

Luminous Manuscript by Diane Samuels is an intricate, exquisite mosaic that the -based artist views as a metaphoric table of contents and preface to the Center as a whole. Comprised of more than 80,500 pieces of glass and 440 underlying Jerusalem stone tiles, this work of art features 112,640 individual alphabet characters from 57 writing systems and engravings of 170 documents from the partners’ archives. Luminous Manuscript is an imaginative and visually stunning representation of how signs and symbols can lend themselves to a myriad of interpretations.

12 13 Public Programs

The Leo and Julia Forchheimer Auditorium is a beautiful, modern venue designed with superb lighting and acoustics, and equipped with the latest technology for film projection, sound and video recording, and video- conferencing. It can seat an audience of up to 247 and is handicap accessible. The Steven J. Kumble Stage provides an ideal setting for lectures, films, concerts and more.

14 15 Exhibitions

Visitors to the Center enjoy a wonderful selection of exhibitions presented in spacious and versatile gallery spaces within the facility. Installations include those curated by staff of the Yeshiva University Museum and displayed in the Betty and Walter L. Popper Gallery, the Ann and Marcus Rosenberg Gallery, the Winnick Family Foundation Gallery, and the Selz Foundation Gallery. Visitors can also experience engaging presentations of materials from the other partners’ collections in the Selma L. Batkin Mezzanine Gallery, the Constantiner Gallery, the Katherine & Clifford H. Goldsmith Gallery, and the John and Gwen Smart Library Gallery. 16 17 American Jewish Historical Society

The American Jewish experience is Central to the Society’s mission is to ensure that rich and varied—and it is fascinat- critical details of the American Jewish experience ingly documented in the wealth of are not lost to present and future generations. materials found at the American A perfect example is one of the Society’s most Jewish Historical Society (AJHS). ambitious projects: its initiative to preserve the For nearly 120 years, the Society has been collecting, history of the American Soviet Jewry Movement. preserving, publishing, exhibiting and sharing The Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Move- with researchers a vast trove of materials that tell ment is now the largest and most comprehensive the remarkable story of Jewish contributions to collection anywhere of materials documenting American civilization, and American contributions the American campaign to rescue Soviet Jews. The to Jewish identity. multifaceted, multiyear project includes gathering oral histories as well as collecting personal The Society strives to be the guiding national papers, photographs, broadsides, news releases, institution assisting both scholars and the general films and other items that detail the heroic effort public to preserve our historical legacy. Its library, to liberate oppressed Jews in the Soviet Union. archives and collections encompass 20 million documents and 50,000 books, plus photographs, In keeping with its mission, each year the organi- art and artifacts that illustrate and illuminate the zation hosts the Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty life and accomplishments of the American Jewish Awards, honoring individuals for exceptional community from the 16th century to the present. deeds or accomplishments. Among past honorees Among the Society’s treasures are the first American are former U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, book published in Hebrew; the handwritten businessman Armand Hammer, American opera original of Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus,” soprano Beverly Sills, philanthropist Edgar the poem that graces the Statue of Liberty; records Bronfman, American Jewish communal leader of the nation’s leading Jewish communal organiza- Sylvia Hassenfeld and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. tions, such as the American Jewish Congress; and telegram from ted williams to hank greenberg important collections in the fields of education, www.ajhs.org Boston, 1946 philanthropy, science, sports, business and the arts. Hank Greenberg was the first Jewish baseball player inducted to the Hall of Fame. He made national news when he refused to play on Yom Kippur. In this telegram, Ted Williams asks to Through its exhibitions, lectures and periodicals borrow Hank Greenberg’s bat for the 1946 World Series. (American Jewish History and Heritage), and its growing online collection of digital images, the Society offers fresh insights into the American Jewish past. AJHS takes special interest in bringing to light forgotten or unacknowledged chapters from history, as exemplified by its work on “Machal,” the North American volunteers, many of them veterans of World War II, who risked their lives and citizenship to fight for Israel’s establishment in 1948.

18 19 American Sephardi Federation

Since its founding in 1973, Under the series entitled “Historic Jewish the American Sephardi Federation Communities in the World of Islam,” ASF has (ASF) has worked to support, presented: Back to Babylon: 2,600 Years of Jewish Life revitalize and strengthen American in Iraq; The Jews of Spain: Past, Present and Future; and Sephardic communities — a 2,000 Years of Jewish Life in Morocco: An Epic Journey. mission that continues even more Other programs have included traveling exhibi- strongly since Sephardic House joined with ASF tions that regularly reach various communities in in 2002, creating one unified organization to North America, including those in Washington, preserve and support the rich cultural traditions, D.C., Seattle, Miami and Chicago. American spirit and history of all Sephardic communities Sephardi Federation’s flagship event, the New York as integral parts of Jewish experience and heritage. Sephardic Jewish Film Festival, is the only annual festival of its kind. ASF maintains the only permanent exhibition gallery in the U.S. dedicated to the Sephardic In conjunction with Sephardic House, its publica- experience. Its library and archives boast more tions division, ASF has produced publications on than 8,500 cataloged books and thousands of Sephardic Jewry in Spain, Portugal, Iraq, Morocco, archival documents, including materials from Spain Turkey, and Afghanistan. and Portugal, the and North Africa. Its library has also amassed a collection of books and Through its mission of preserving and promoting periodicals on . In addition, ASF main- Sephardic heritage, ASF provides new and tains the largest known collection of photographs unparalleled insight into world cultures in which of Turkish and Moroccan , as well as Sephardim have played an important role. material documenting the plight of Ethiopian Jews. www.americansephardifederation.org

travel document Turkey, 1910 Issued by the government of the Ottoman Empire, prior to the rise of Ataturk. Note the use of Turkish written in Arabic letters. Once Ataturk took over in 1923, Turkish was written using Latin letters.

20 21 Leo Baeck Institute

More than 50 years after its LBI continues to attract the attention of world founding, the Leo Baeck Institute leaders, including German Chancellor Angela (LBI) continues to add significant Merkel, who in 2010 was recognized by LBI for new materials to the world’s her commitment to fighting anti-Semitism premier research library devoted and promoting the integration of minorities in to the history of German-speaking Germany. Every year since 1978, LBI has presented Jewry. LBI began as, and remains, the Leo Baeck Medal to an outstanding individual an effort by German-Jewish émigrés to document whose work promotes tolerance and social justice, the vibrant culture of modern, assimilated reflecting values that resonate profoundly in German Jewry that was destroyed in the Holocaust. the humanitarian tradition of Leo Baeck, the Today, LBI has also grown into a vital resource last leader of the Jewish Community in Nazi for understanding the roots of that tragedy and for Germany and the first President of the Institute. highlighting German-Jewish community members’ breakthrough developments in the arts, science Helping the public to understand both the success and philosophy. and the tragedy of German Jewry is another critical component of LBI’s work. The Institute hosts The emergence of a modern humanism that drew exhibitions, performances and film screenings, and on the best traditions of and the wider it also supports original scholarship in the field German culture can be traced in LBI’s 80,000- of German-Jewish studies. Ensuring that these volume library. This history is bookended by the resources remain available for future generations philosopher ’s persuasive demands an innovative long-term vision. LBI arguments for the compatibility of religion and has pioneered methods for digitizing not only reason in Phaedon (1767), and the signatures of books, but also the often fragile documents that artists, scientists and political leaders in the guest make up the bulk of its archival collections. New book from ’s summer home in digital collections are added to the online catalog 1931, which he was forced to abruptly leave behind daily. All of LBI’s microfilm holdings are also when the Nazis came to power. available in the LBI Archives at the Jewish Museum in Berlin, where European scholars and the The archival collections provide rich and irre- German public can engage with the legacy of placeable documentation of daily life for German- German-speaking Jews. speaking Jews going back to the 16th century. These family papers, business records and www.lbi.org memorabilia are important resources for scholars, genealogists, businesspeople and diplomats interested in timely questions ranging from the historicization of popular culture to the role of minorities in society. LBI’s commitment to preserving the legacy of German-speaking Jewry goes well beyond the academic realm.

shanghai id card Shanghai, 1944 A Jewish community Chinese ID card for David Ludwig Bloch, a German-born Jewish artist who spent four weeks in the Dachau concentration camp after being arrested during Kristallnacht. 22 23 Yeshiva University Museum

Founded in 1973, Yeshiva University The Museum’s educational programming is Museum is a prominent Jewish designed to enhance school curricula and cultural resource and tourist engage students of all ages and denominations. destination. Its exhibitions, public The Museum is piloting an innovative program programs and educational initia- to combine experiential education of visual arts tives attract audiences, young and old, as they bring with exploration of Jewish textual sources. to life the Museum’s mission to present, research The new initiative is supported by the Covenant and interpret Jewish art and culture across history Foundation and draws on a partnership and from the four corners of the world. with the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education. The YU Museum’s collection of more than 9,000 pieces of art and artifacts represents 3,000 years As a cultural arm of Yeshiva University and of Jewish life and includes fine and folk art, as a resource for scholarly research, the rare ethnographic and archaeological artifacts, YU Museum’s exhibitions provide unique clothing and textiles, Jewish ceremonial objects, opportunities for artists, historians, collectors, documents, books and manuscripts. scholars and art-lovers to absorb new ideas and be nourished in a beautiful, multidisciplinary The Museum engages the public in the under- environment. The Museum develops artistically standing and appreciation of Jewish art and creative and thought-provoking exhibitions and culture. It is also committed to nurturing creative programs that open the eyes and minds of its potential and professional development in students audience members, offering revealing perspec- and young audiences. Through its programs, tives on Jewish texts, traditions and experience. the Museum provides a window into around the world and throughout history, www.yumuseum.org mounting concurrent exhibitions that explore contemporary as well as historic manifestations of Jewish art and life.

As part of the Center for Jewish History, the Museum looks for meaningful opportunities to work closely with its partners on programs and exhibitions that contextualize and re-interpret the collections. Recent examples include 16mm Postcards: Home Movies of American Jewish Visitors to 1930s Poland, a collaborative exhibition with YIVO that brought to life the landscape of people in pre-War Poland through an immersive video instal- lation, and the exhibition Zero to Ten: First Decades/ New Centuries, which drew on and highlighted the holdings of all of the partner organizations.

the treasure of hebrew studies Otzar Ha-Limud Ha-Ivri , Poland, 1904 Y. Garzuvy and S. L. Gordon, illustrated by G. Tshurny. 24 25 YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Founded in Vilna, Poland in 1925 In keeping with its commitment to using oppor- and headquartered in New York tunities created by new technology to reach the since 1940, the YIVO Institute for public, YIVO recently launched two major Internet Jewish Research is dedicated to resources. The first is an online edition of research and education relating The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, to all aspects of over 1,000 years of Jewish life in the print edition of which was published by Eastern Europe. Today the legacy of this Diaspora Yale University Press in 2008. Fully available to extends throughout Europe, Russia, South and the public and without charge, the encyclopedia’s North America, and Israel. Its accomplishments website also features additional material, including and energy resonate throughout daily life, whether film clips, songs and other musical examples, in music, literature, food, politics, law, philosophy, newly digitized documents from the YIVO dance, theater, film, science, medicine or religion. archives and many more images. The second And the collective memory of that civilization site is The Milstein Online Archives of the New York continues to pose vital questions to the Jewish Jewish Community, which reflects the work of people—questions of identity and connectedness, YIVO’s project to preserve and document the time and space, memory and immediacy, moral historic legacy of Jewish New York with an authenticity and social and political purpose. emphasis on the histories and archival treasures of five agencies: the 92nd Street Y, the Educational YIVO’s mission is to provide the means to deepen Alliance, F·E·G·S Health and Human Services one’s understanding of this multifaceted and System, NYANA and . dynamic civilization and to educate students, teachers and the general public not only about its Highlights of its public programs include history and cultural attainments, but also about a symposium on the Yiddish writer its continuing, if often invisible, place in one’s and a conference on historian own life. YIVO’s public programs, exhibitions and on the 150th anniversary of his birth. The Ruth publications seek to encourage the enjoyment of a Gay Seminar series hosted a lively discussion culture that seems so far away, yet is so close, while of Jewish tavern-keeping and a fascinating look extending knowledge and self-awareness. YIVO’s at the Pinkas of Metz, the record book of the vast documentary resources provide the indispens- rabbinic court of Metz in the 18th century that able bridge between the Old World and the New. is a rare holding of the YIVO Library. The annual Sidney Krum musical concert has expanded to include a young artists’ series, with three perfor- mances each year.

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Design by Pure+Applied III IV Governance at the Center for Jewish History board of directors

Bruce Slovin, Chairman Emeritus & Founder Michael A. Bamberger Steven J. Kumble Norman Belmonte Ruth Levine William A. Ackman, Co-Chairman Leonard Blavatnik Joel R. Marcus Joseph S. Steinberg, Co-Chairman Eva B. Cohn Jonathan Mishkin Amy P. Goldman, Vice Chairman David E.R. Dangoor Robert S. Rifkind Kenneth J. Bialkin, Vice Chairman Martin Flumenbaum Bernard Selz Theodore N. Mirvis, Secretary Joseph Greenberger Bruce Slovin Sidney Lapidus, Treasurer Michael Jesselson Michele Cohn Tocci Ira H. Jolles Simon Ziff Daniel R. Kaplan academic advisory council

Steven J. Zipperstein, Stanford University, Chair Arthur Kiron, University of Derek Penslar, University of Toronto, Co-Chair Paul North, Yale University Riv-Ellen Prell, University of Minnesota Elisheva Carlebach, Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University Dan Cohen, George Mason University Paul A. Shapiro, US Holocaust Memorial Museum Jane S. Gerber, Graduate Center, CUNY Mark Slobin, Wesleyan University Debra Kaplan, Yeshiva University Sarah A. Stein, University of California, LA Marion A. Kaplan, Beth Wenger, University of Pennsylvania Samuel D. Kassow, Trinity College administration

Michael S. Glickman, Chief Operating Officer Elaine Valby, Director of Administration and Finance Michael Stafford, Director of Building Operations Judith C. Siegel, Director of Academic and Public Programs Laura Leone, Director of Archive and Library Services Governance at the Center for Jewish History chairman’s visiting committee on archive & library services

Douglas Greenberg, Rutgers University, Chair

Jeremy Dauber, Columbia University Charles Henry, Council on Library and Information Resources Stanley Katz, Princeton University Anne R. Kenney, Cornell University Ann Kirschner, City University of New York Carol A. Mandel, New York University Christine W. Ward, New York State Archives Ruth Wisse, partner institutions american jewish historical society Paul B. Warhit, President Jonathan Karp, Executive Director american sephardi federation David E.R. Dangoor, President Stanley Urman, Executive Director leo baeck institute Bernard Blum, President Carol Kahn Strauss, Executive Director yeshiva university museum Michael Jesselson, Co-Chair Theodore N. Mirvis, Co-Chair Jacob Wisse, Director yivo institute for jewish research Bruce Slovin, Chairman Jonathan Brent, Executive Director Statement of Activities year ended december 31, 2010

The Center’s books and records are audited annually by EisnerAmper LLP. To request a copy of the most recent audited financial statements and auditor’s report, call1 2-294-8302 1 or write the Center for Jewish History, Finance Department, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011. consolidated statement of activities public support and revenue: $37,308,152

∏ 96% Individual/Foundation Contributions: $35,855,024 ∏ 3% Facility Services Income: $1,089,924 ∏ > 1% Reimbursements & Other Revenue: $214,733 ∏ > 1% Investment Interest: $117,035 ∏ > 1% Government Grants: $31,436

functional expenses: $5,546,237*

∏ 44% Building Operations: $2,437,936 ∏ 21% Archive and Library Services: $1,164,456 ∏ 14% Fundraising: $799,549 ∏ 12% Management and General: $668,232 ∏ 9% Academic and Program Services: $476,064

*Represents total operating expenses before depreciation and interest of $3,985,880 Statement of Financial Position year ended december 31, 2010 consolidated statement of financial position assets

Cash and cash equivalents $3,941,681 Pledges receivable $3,921,659 Accounts receivable $83,930 Government grants receivable $148,209 Beneficial interest in remainder trust $392,312 Accrued interest income receivable $14,998 Due from partner organizations $271,226 Prepaid expenses and other assets $238,043 Investments $5,695,044 Property and equipment, net $37,433,369

Total Assets $52,140,471

liabilities & net assets liabilities Accounts payable and accrued expenses $233,915 Note payable $445,929 Annuities payable $66,107

Total Liabilities $745,951 net assets Unrestricted $40,806,912 Temporarily restricted $6,426,178 r Pe manently restricted $4,161,430

Total Net Assets $51,394,520

Total Liabilities & Net Assets: $52,140,471