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New York Places, Jewish Spaces: Life in the City, 1700-2012

The corner of Essex Hester Streets. Drawing by John Durkin in Leslie’s Weekly. September 12, 1891.

By Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer

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Going Digital

Center for Jewish History Photograph by John Halpern

By Arthur Kiron

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A Jewish Voice from Ottoman Salonica: the Ladino Memoir of Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi

The Ladino Memoir of Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi

Aron Rodrigue and Sarah Stein, editors, with translation, transliteration and glossary by Isaac Jerusalmi (Stanford University Press, 2011)

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The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus

Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Talmudic Corpus

Marjorie Lehman (Wayne State University Press, 2012)

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Out of the Archives

Junior Hadassah members at the Palestine Pavilion at the World’s Fair, New York City, 1940. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

By Susan Woodland

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Praying in Uniform: The Jewish Soldier in Diaspora Armies

Postcard (reproduction of Kol Nidre...). Hermann Junker. 1870. Leo Baeck Institute

By Derek Jonathan Penslar

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When General Grant Expelled the Jews

Telegram of Revocation of Grant’s General Order 11 Adolphus S. Solomons, New York, 1863.

By Jonathan D. Sarna

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New Research at the Center

GRADUATE Fellows for the 2011-12 Academic Year:

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Re-Imagining the Jewish World

History’s Ultimate Nomads. Directed by Shaul Keslassi. 2010.

By Ronnie Perelis

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Jews as “Culture Brokers”

The Green Millionaire, New York, 1915

By Jonathan Karp

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