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350th Anniversary Emma Lazarus Awardee Baseball Card Collectors Edition

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Over $200,000Genevieve & Justin L. Wyner

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We extend our thanks to the many hundreds of other wonderful donors whose names do not appear here.2

$10,000 +Mr. S. Daniel AbrahamElsie & M. Bernard AidinoffMr. Ted Benard-CutlerMr. Len BlavatnikMr. Edgar BronfmanMr. Stanley CohenCombined Jewish PhilanthropiesMr. Alan Elkin

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American Jewish Historical Society 2002 -2003 Gift Roster

A Letter fromKenneth J. Bialkin,President

C O N T E N T S

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350th AnniversaryPage 5

Naomi CohenLecturePage 5

South CarolinaExhibitPage 5

New & Noteworthy Pages 6-7

Hebrew College • New AJHS President •Mortimer Zuckerman honored • LoebPortrait Database • New ExhibitCelebrates American Jewish Writers •Prizes awarded and more

Calendar of EventsPage 16

AAJJHHSS BBooookkssttoorree

New Collectors’Baseball Cards Page 9

BooksPages 10-12

Note Cards for Any OccasionPage 12

Emma LazarusCollectors Edition Page 13

Posters from the PastPages 14-15

OrderingPage14

AJHS Newsletter Spring 2003 • 3

For the past five years, I have had the privilege of serving asPresident of the American Jewish Historical Society. I want to thankall of you whose support for the Society has made this period such anexciting one in the Society's own history. During my tenure, theSociety has undergone perhaps the most dramatic series of changesin its 111 years of existence. Five years ago, the Society had a singlefacility in Waltham, MA, adjacent to the campus of BrandeisUniversity, in a building we constructed in 1968. Today, the Society ishoused in two magnificent new homes: one at the Center for JewishHistory in New York City and the other on the new Moshe Safdie-designed campus of Hebrew College in Newton, MA. Our preciousholdings are now stored in state-of-the-art preservation environ-ments. For the first time, we have significant opportunities to mountexhibitions and displays.

During this same period, the Society published its multi-award win-ning Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, theRandom House American Jewish Desk Reference, the documentarybook America Stands with Israel: Washington, DC, April 15, 2002 anda facsimile edition of A Survivor's Haggadah. We created the Archiveof American Jews in Sports, created endowed lectures, formedalliances with a number of other historical organizations and provid-ed fellowships and support to dozens of researchers, students,authors and filmmakers. Our distinguished Academic Council grewlarger and stronger. We convened conferences, presented films andconcerts and awarded book prizes. As never before, the Society iscontributing to scholarship and to public understanding of the rolethat Jews have played in the development of American society.

I want to thank each of my fellow officers and trustees and the staffof the American Jewish Historical Society for sharing the hard workand responsibility of moving the Society forward. I extend my bestwishes to my successor, Sidney Lapidus, and hope he experiences allthe rewards and pleasure I have felt at the helm of this distinguishedand unique organization.

Sincerely,

Kenneth J. Bialkin

HERITAGENEWSLETTER OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETYVOLUME 1, NUMBER 1 • SPRING 2003

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~ OFFICERS ~

KENNETH J. BIALKINPresident

SIDNEY LAPIDUSPresident Elect

EDGAR J. NATHAN IIIChairman

ALAN M. EDELSTEIN MICHAEL JESSELSONIRA A. LIPMAN NANCY T. POLEVOY

LOUISE P. ROSENFELDVice Presidents

MAURICE ZILBERSecretary and Counsel

HAROLD S. ROSENBLUTHAssociate Secretary

EFREM WEINREBAssistant Secretary

DAVID P. SOLOMONTreasurer

ARTHUR S. OBERMAYERAssociate Treasurer

ZITA ROSENTHALAssistant Treasurer

PROF. PAMELA S. NADELLChair, Academic Council

MARSHA LOTSTEINChair, Council of Jewish Historical Organizations

GEORGE BLUMENTHAL LESLIE POLLACK

Co-Chairs, Sports Archive

JUSTIN L. WYNERImmediate Past President

DAVID R. POKROSSHonorary President

SHELDON S. COHENHonorary Chairman

WILLIAM M. GINSBURG ROBERT D. GRIESFAYE G. SCHAYER SHERMAN H. STARR

Honorary Vice Presidents

MICHAEL FELDBERG, PH.D.Executive Director

BERNARD WAXDirector Emeritus

~ BOARD OF TRUSTEES ~

M. BERNARD AIDINOFF WALTER ANGOFFNORMAN ARNOLD KENNETH J. BIALKIN

GEORGE BLUMENTHAL ANNE S. BORENSTEINSHELDON S. COHEN RONALD CURHAN

ALAN M. EDELSTEIN DINAH EVAN HENRY J. EVERETT RUTH FEIN

WILLIAM M. GINSBURG RICHARD N. GOLDMANDAVID M. GORDIS DAVID S. GOTTESMAN

ROBERT D. GRIES SUSAN HERTOG MICHAEL JESSELSON LEON A. JICK DANIEL KAPLAN ABRAHAM J. KARP

ANDREW KLEIN HARVEY M. KRUEGER SHALOM E. LAMM AARON LANSKY

SIDNEY LAPIDUS PHILIP LAX ROBERT LENZNER IRA A. LIPMAN NORMAN LISS MARSHA LOTSTEIN

KENNETH D. MALAMED GILBERT LANG MATHEWSPAMELA S. NADELL EDGAR J. NATHAN, III

ARTHUR S. OBERMAYER JEFFREY S. OPPENHEIM, MD DAVID R. POKROSS

NANCY T. POLEVOY LESLIE M. POLLACKARNOLD J. RABINOR JEHUDA REINHARTZ

HAROLD S. ROSENBLUTH LOUISE P. ROSENFELDZITA ROSENTHAL WALTER ROTH

FAYE G. SCHAYER LAWRENCE R. SEDER BRUCE SLOVIN DAVID P. SOLOMON

SHERMAN H. STARR JOSEPH S. STEINBERGMORTON M. STEINBERG SUZANNE L. STONE

RONALD S. TAUBER SAUL VIENER SUE R. WARBURG EFREM WEINREB JUSTIN L. WYNER MAURICE ZILBER

The mission of the American Jewish Historical Society is to foster awareness and appreciation of

American Jewish heritage and to serve as a national scholarly resource for research through the collection, preservation and dissemination of materials relating

to American Jewish history.

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Blessings of Freedom: Chapters ofAmerican Jewish History. A compilation of essays originally published inThe Forward. See page 10 to order.

350th Anniversary ofJewish Settlement in America


In 2004, the people of the United States will celebrate the350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in North America. In1654, a band of 23 Jews expelled by the Portuguese fromRecife, Brazil, landed in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.From that day to the present, there has been a permanentJewish population in what is now the United States. To markthis occasion, the Society will undertake several important tasksand join with other major American institutions to assure thesuccess of the anniversary celebration.

A resolution has been introduced into Congress that will des-ignate the American Jewish Historical Society, the Library ofCongress, the National Archives and Records Administrationand the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American JewishArchives as the founding partners of the Commission toCommemorate 350 Years of American Jewish History. TheCommission's activities will include an exhibition on AmericanJewish history at the Library of Congress that opens inSeptember 2004 and will appear on the Library's website; anational effort to stimulate archival collecting in local Jewishcommunities; convening the AJHS Academic Council's bienni-al Scholars' Conference at the Library of Congress in June2004; creation of a website for members of the public withimages and information about the anniversary; and distribu-tion of materials to communities that will help them offeranniversary programming in local venues.

Additionally, the Society will partner with CongregationShearith Israel in New York, the National Foundation forJewish Culture, the American Jewish Committee and othernational organizations to develop additional programs andprojects to commemorate the 350th anniversary. The Societywill also work with CUNY-TV, the television service of the CityUniversity of New York, to create and broadcast educationalprogramming to mark this anniversary.

In its own right, the Society will publish four special issues of itsjournal, American Jewish History, mount exhibitions at theCenter for Jewish History in New York and its new facility atHebrew College in Newton, MA, and offer lectures and otherprogramming around the United States.

Portrait of Phila Franks, painted in 1735, one of the oldest portraits in the Society’s collection.

South Carolina ExhibitWith the Yeshiva University Museum, the Society is currentlyco-sponsoring a traveling exhibition, “A Portion of the People:Three Hundred Years of Southern Jewish Life.” Organized bythe McKissick Museum, the South Carolina Jewish HistoricalSociety and the Special Collections Department of the Collegeof Charleston, the show illustrates the long history of one ofthe nation's earliest and most significant Jewish communities.The exhibition can be viewed until August 2003 in the mainYeshiva University Museum gallery at the Center for JewishHistory in New York City. A magnificent catalog accompaniesthe exhibition.

Naomi Cohen LectureOn January 12, Professor emerita Naomi Cohen of The JewishTheological Seminar of America delivered the Society's HarryElson Memorial Lecture at the Center for Jewish History inNew York. Professor Cohen's paper, "The Trans-AtlanticConnection: The American Jewish Committee and the JointForeign Committee in Defense of German Jews 1933-1936,"was responded to by Professor Todd Endelman of theUniversity of Michigan and Professor Shuly Rubin Schwartz ofthe Jewish Theological Seminary. Professor Jeffrey Gurock ofYeshiva University, former chair of the Society's AcademicCouncil, convened and chaired the session. Because she wasunable to travel, Professor Cohen taped her presentation andprofessors Endelman and Schwartz responded before the liveaudience at the Center for Jewish History.

Ambassador Edward E. Elson endowed the Harry ElsonMemorial Lecture, in memory of his father, to encourage

scholars to develop new perspectives in the researching andwriting of American Jewish history. Selected by a committee ofthe AJHS Academic Council, the lecturer’s paper is publishedin the Society's quarterly journal.


NEW & NOTEWORTHY

New Massachusetts Home atHebrew CollegeIn August 2002, the American Jewish Historical Society relo-cated its New England facilities from the campus of BrandeisUniversity to a new home in the Gann Library of HebrewCollege, Newton, MA. The Society expects to be fully opera-tional at this site in July 2003. The resources at the Society’slocation include archival and other research holdings relatingto the history of the Boston-area and New England Jewish com-munities, traveling exhibitions and public programs such aslectures and films. AJHS will continue to host the JewishGenealogical Society of Greater Boston at its new home.

Generous gifts from Justin and Genevieve Wyner of Boston andGeorge and Marion Blumenthal of New York City enabled theAmerican Jewish Historical Society to acquire its new facility atHebrew College. The facility is known as the Wyner Center ofthe American Jewish Historical Society at Hebrew College.

The beautiful new campus of Hebrew College, designed byMoshe Safdie, opened in December 2002. The Society and theCollege expect to conduct a number of joint programs, partic-ularly in the area of adult education.

To assure the timely and orderly move from Brandeis toHebrew College, Director Emeritus Bernard Wax came out ofretirement to help AJHS. We are grateful to Bernie and theNew England staff for their hard work to assure the safe relo-cation of the Society’s precious holdings.

Loeb Portrait DatabaseA generous grant from Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr. hasenabled AJHS to create a section of its website,http://www.ajhs.org/research/loeb/, for a database that will,over time, contain an image and information describing everyknown portrait, photo, daguerreotype and woodcut of anAmerican Jew painted before 1865. Currently, the database,which contains 60 images and captions, can be viewed by visit-ing the AJHS website and clicking on “ Research Resources,”Portrait Database.” While the majority of images on this site areowned by AJHS from its extensive collection of pre-1865 por-traits, silhouettes, daguerreotypes and woodcuts, for this site toachieve comprehensiveness dozens of institutions and individ-uals had to grant permission for AJHS to publish an image ofworks in their collections. We are grateful to each of them fortheir cooperation, and to Ambassador Loeb for his steadfastsupport of this project.

Honoring Mortimer B. ZuckermanUS News and Daily News publisher to receiveEmma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award.On Tuesday evening, May 20, 2003, the American JewishHistorical Society will present its Emma Lazarus Statue ofLiberty Award to Mortimer B. Zuckerman at The Pierre in NewYork City. The Emma Lazarus Award has been given only tentimes since the Society's founding 111 years ago.

The dinner will honor Mr. Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of USNews and World Report, publisher of The New York DailyNews, chairman of Boston Properties, Inc and chairman of theConference of Presidents of Major American JewishOrganizations, as an individual whose leadership has signifi-cantly shaped national and international affairs. His dedicationto philanthropy, ethics and Jewish values personify EmmaLazarus' vision for America. Mr. Zuckerman joins a distin-guished group of past honorees that includes Edgar Bronfman,Henry Kissinger, Felix Rohatyn, Beverly Sills, Sanford Weill,Aaron Feuerstein, Sylvia Hassenfeld and Elie Wiesel.

The Co-Chairs for the Dinner are Ronald Lauder, Chairman,Clinique Laboratories Inc.; Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, TheBlackstone Group; Jerry I. Speyer, CEO, Tishman SpeyerProperties; Sir Howard Stringer, Chairman & CEO, SonyCorporation of America; James Tisch, CEO, LoewsCorporation; Harvey Weinstein, Chairman, Miramax Films;Irwin Winkler, CEO, Winkler Films; and John Zuccotti,Chairman, Brookfield Financial Properties.

The Emma Lazarus Statue of Liberty Award is named for theauthor of the Society's most precious possession, the originalhandwritten manuscript of “ The New Colossus,”the sonnetthat adorns the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.

Lapidus to Succeed Bialkin asAJHS PresidentOn May 20, 2003, Sidney Lapidus of Harrison, NY will succeedKenneth J. Bialkin as president of the American JewishHistorical Society. Mr. Lapidus holds an undergraduate degreefrom Princeton University and a degree in law from ColumbiaUniversity. Mr. Lapidus currently holds the title of ManagingDirector and Senior Advisor at E. M. Warburg Pincus, a leadingprivate equity firm.

In addition to serving as an officer of AJHS, Mr. Lapidus ispresident of the United Neighborhood Houses of New York,serves on the Executive Committee of UJA-Federation of NewYork, the Council of the American Antiquarian Society inWorcester, MA, and the Board of Trustees of the New YorkUniversity School of Medicine.

Fellowships AwardedThe Society's Academic Council has awarded this year's Ruth B.Fein fellowships to three doctoral students: Susan Breitzer,Department of History, University of Iowa; Alan Howard,Department of History, University of Florida; and LindaMaizels, Melton Centre for Jewish Education, HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem. The fellowships allow these individualsto travel to the Society to conduct research in its archival hold-ings at the Center for Jewish History.


NEW & NOTEWORTHY

New Exhibit CelebratesAmerican Jewish WritersA new exhibition celebrating the lives and works of Jewish-American writers from Arthur Miller and Penina Moise to AlanGinsburg and Hannah Arendt will open in the American JewishHistorical Society's exhibit cases at the Center for Jewish Historyin New York City. Originally organized by Princeton University'sFirestone Library, "Not For Myself Alone: Celebrating Jewish-American Writers" draws together poetry, fiction, drama, essays,artwork and correspondence from some 75 men and womenwho have enriched American culture across two centuries. Theexhibition is open to the public without charge Mondaythrough Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and 2:00-5:00p.m. on Sundays, other than holidays.

The exhibition features selected works from the Leonard L.Milberg ('53) Collection of Jewish-American Writers in Honorof Harold T. Shapiro, Princeton University's president from1988 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 RebeccaGratz, who served as the model for the character of Rebecca inSir Walter Scott's novel, Ivanhoe, as well as Emma Lazarus,whose poem, "The New Colossus," is engraved on the pedestalof the Statue of Liberty. Twentieth-century writers are also wellrepresented, including Saul Bellow, Bernard Malamud, NormanMailer and poets such as Ginsburg, C. K. Williams and RobertPinsky.

Photographic portraits of the writers and eight original carica-tures by David Levine, coupled with a wide array of letters andmanuscripts, complement the published works in the exhibi-tion. These include such treasures as the first edition of HenryRoth's novel, Call it Sleep, complete with its dust jacket.

A special issue of the Princeton University Library Chronicle,featuring 27 previously unpublished original essays and shortstories and 46 original poems by and about Jewish-Americanwriters, accompanies the exhibition. This 392-page issue also

Shandler Wins Viener Book PrizeJeffrey Shandler, Professor of Jewish Studies at RutgersUniversity, was awarded the Society's prestigious Saul VienerBook Prize for his monograph, While America Watches:Televising the Holocaust, published by the Oxford UniversityPress. The Viener Prize is awarded to the best book published inthe field of American Jewish history during the past two years.Selection of the prizewinner is made by the Society's AcademicCouncil.

includes facsimiles of unpublished correspondence by suchimportant literary figures as Saul Bellow, Stanley Kunitz,Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller, Susan Sontag, Lionel Trilling, Hannah Arendt and Philip Roth. Of particular importance aretwo previously unpublished short stories by Isaac BashevisSinger.

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News from the ArchivesAmong the collections recently donated to the AmericanJewish Historical Society are the papers of the SchoolmanFamily. Dr. Albert P. and Mrs. Bertha Schoolman's papersreflect their dedication to Jewish causes, Israel, Hadassah andJewish education. Dr. Schoolman is best known for establishingCamp Cejwin in Port Jervis, NY in 1919.

Also donated were the papers of Rabbi Leon Kronish. RabbiKronosh, a passionate Zionist devoted to liberal Judaism,served as spiritual leader to the Jews of South Florida and hiscongregation at Temple Beth Sholom in Miami.

The Society is pleased to announce the donation of thearchives of the City Athletic Club to its collections. The CAC,founded in 1908 as a sports and social club for a Jewish mem-bership, provided a haven for its members, many of whom hadbeen excluded from joining other clubs of the day becausethey were Jews.


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When you elect to Join AJHS at our Archival Membership level,($500) or higher, you will receive all the benefits of Subscriptionmembership, PLUS we will give you two strong acid-free archivalcartons for you to fill and donate to AJHS. Donated items deemedappropriate for our collections will be placed in our archives. Wereserve the right to return to you, to dispose of, or to transfer to

another institution any donated material we deem unsuitable forour mission. Your unrestricted donations of archival material areconsidered tax deductible. We will provide you with inventoryforms and will acknowledge your donation. Your tax advisor canexplain how the IRS permits you to value your gift up to $5000without appraisal. If you believe that your collection may be worthabove $5000, you will require a professional appraisal (which wecannot provide) to obtain maximum tax benefits.

Upon receipt of your Archival Membership Fee of $500 we willsend you labeled cartons and blank inventory lists so you can sendyour donation of materials to AJHS. You will receive simpleinstructions and materials for identifying objects, papers, and pic-tures. Additional cartons of suitable material may be donated toAJHS for a processing fee of $250 per standard carton. To receivefurther information Please fill out and mail the form on theenclosed envelope, call 212-294-6167 or you submit it on theinternet at www.ajhs.org/membership.

All additional donations of material to AJHS are subject to thesame tax deductibility terms.


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THE FIRST COMPLETE SET OF CARDS FOF JEWISH MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYERS

Available in 2003 - The first complete set of cards for EVERY Jewish Major League Baseball player, from Lipman Pike (1884) to Jason Marquis! In con-junction with Jewish Major Leaguers, Inc., the American Jewish Historical Society is creating this limited-edition card set for all 130 players. For more thanfifty of these men this will be their first and only card. Complete with photos and statistics, including Hall of Fame players Sandy Koufax and HankGreenberg, future Hall of Famer Shawn Green, All-Stars Al Rosen and Ken Holtzman and old-timers like Andy Cohen, Moe Berg and Harry 'The Horse'Danning, this set is truly one of a kind. (V2 Change) Jewish Major Leaguers is a limited edition, boxed set. Now in development with the encouragementand cooperation of Major League Baseball, the Players Association and the Alumni Players Association, the Society will produce only small one-time print-ing. No set will be sold through dealers. Only AJHS and a small number of other non-profit organizations such as synagogues and Jewish community cen-ters will be permitted to sell them. Individuals can buy sets in limited quantities.

We can guarantee only two things: your complete satisfaction, and that these sets will sell out very quickly. While the delivery date is still uncertain as we goto press, we are targeting delivery for this season. Please do not delay in ordering: requests will be filled on a first come first served basis. When they sellout they will be gone.

Limited Edition boxed set of cards (limit 5 per person) • Pre-publication price $60Free with new $85 Sports Membership. See Envelope in center for membership details.

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SURVIVOR’S HAGGADAHIn the winter of 1945, Holocaust survivors inDisplaced Persons camps around Munich created anextraordinary, illustrated Haggadah in preparationfor the first Passover after liberation. This very raredocument is now available in facsimile, with transla-tion and commentary, from the American JewishHistorical Society. The edition is limited to 500 num-bered copies. In 1996, Saul Touster, professor emeritus at BrandeisUniversity, found this 1946 Haggadah among thepapers of his father, a former president of HIAS.Deeply moved by the text and powerful graphics,Touster began an extensive journey of research intothe book's origins and creators. The author of thisself-styled "Supplement to the Passover Haggadah,"Yosef Dov Sheinson, was a Kovno survivor of fouryears of camps. In it, he parallels the Biblical narra-tive of deliverance from Pharaoh's Egypt with sur-vival in Hitler's Europe, and weaves through it a pas-sionate Zionist yearning for the Promised Land.Enhancing the whole, he incorporates seven har-rowing wood cuts by the Hungarian artist and sur-vivor Miklos Adler. Strangely enough, unknown toone another, Sheinson and Adler both spent the firstweeks after liberation in Theresienstadt. In this edition, Touster draws upon the literature ofthe Holocaust--poems, memoirs, and visions of sur-vivors--to help illuminate this extraordinary testa-ment.A Survivor's Haggadah comprises a complete facsim-ile of the original that was published by the U.S.Third Army--the Army of Occupation - through oneof its chaplains, Rabbi Abraham J. Klausner, famousfor his work among the survivors of Dachau. With atranslation, it includes an introduction, commen-tary, and notes by Professor Touster. Only 500 num-bered copies of this edition have been printed. The book is 128 pages and measures 8"x10 3/8". Itwas designed and produced by Scott-Martin Kosofskyat The Philidor Company in Cambridge, MA andprinted in high-resolution duotone by MercantilePrinting in Worcester, MA on Mohawk Superfinepaper. The dramatic binding was made at AcmeBookbinding in Charlestown, MA. Each book isnumbered and enclosed in a handsome slipcasewhich bears the red, white, and blue "A" insignia ofthe Third Army • $100.

SSppeecciiaall BBuunnddllee:: A Survivor's Hagaddah and BeyondWords together • $150.

AMERICA STANDS WITH ISRAELThis limited edition volume captures the excitementof the historic National Rally in Solidarity with Israelin Washington, DC, April 15, 2002. On short notice,the American Jewish Community, supported bynumerous non-Jewish friends of Israel, converged atthe Capitol in an unprecedented outpouring of soli-darity with Israel and support for the war on globalterrorism. The rally's resounding message reverber-ated in Washington, Jerusalem and around theworld. America Stands with Israel contains morethan 200 color photos, transcripts of the speechesand participant comments recording this historicevent. Edited by Michael Feldberg, ExecutiveDirector of AJHS, and others, the book contains anintroduction by Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive VicePresident of the Conference of Presidents of MajorAmerican Jewish Organizations.Hardcover • $29.95. Paperback • $19.95.

BEYOND WORDSA Holocaust History in sixteen woodcuts done in1945 by Miklos Adler, a Hungarian survivor. Edited,with an introduction and commentary, by SaulTouster. Contains facsimiles of the woodcuts and aseparately bound volume with Professor Touster'scommentary, bound in a folio box. • $100

BLESSINGS OF FREEDOMBlessings of Freedom is a collection of vignettes andepisodes that, taken together, limn the overridingdirections and tendencies of the much larger tapes-try that comprises the American Jewish experience.Starting in 1997, the American Jewish HistoricalSociety published a weekly feature entitled Blessingsof Freedom: Chapters in American Jewish History inthe English-language Forward and other newspa-pers. This volume comprises 120 of the bestcolumns, organized according to subject and period.Each chapter is a window through which the readergets an interesting and illuminating glimpse at animportant and often colorful aspect of the AmericanJewish story. Bibliographical information is given forthose interested in learning more about the topic. Hardcover • $25. Paperback • $15.

HOOPSKIRTS AND HUPPAHSA Chronicle of the Early Years of the Garfunkel-Trager Family in America, 1856-1920. Written by Milton M. Gottesman. Published byAmerican Jewish Historical Society, New York. 96pages, 6" x 9", cloth bound, with 37 period photo-graphs, 91 endnotes, appendix, glossary, and anintroduction by Professor Jeffrey S. Gurock. Subjectsinclude: - Two mid-19th century rabbis who make their liv-ings as hoopskirt manufacturers and minister totheir congregations in South Carolina and New Yorkon a pro bono basis. - A hoopskirt salesman who briefs Union Army offi-cers on Confederate military preparations andbecomes a freelance intelligence operative with apersonal introduction from General Grant to thecommanding general of the Union Army inWashington. - A home in Columbia, South Carolina, that is spe-cially protected by Union army officers from theconflagration that consumes the rest of the city dur-ing Sherman's March to the Sea. - Vignettes of the 19th century Jewish communitiesin Charleston, Columbia, Savannah, Cincinnati, andNew York City. • $18.

INDEX TO PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETYVolumes 21-50 [1913-1961], 51-80[1961-1991]

An Index to American Jewish HistoricalQuarterly/American Jewish History, Brooklyn:Carlson Publishing Inc., for the American JewishHistorical Society, 1995. 1994 and 1995.Vol. 21-50: Members • $30. Non-members • $50.Vol. 51-80: Members • $40. Non-members • $75.

JEWISH WOMEN IN AMERICA: An Historical Encyclopedia2 volumes. Edited by Paula E. Hyman and DeborahDash Moore Sponsored by the American JewishHistorical Society. Winner of the American LibraryAssociation's prestigious Dartmouth Medal Award"for the creation of reference works of outstandingquality and significance." Winner of the Jewish BookCouncil's National Jewish Book Award for Women'sStudies and the Barbara Dobkin Honorary Award.AJHS members • $79. Non-members • $99.

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FACING THE NEW WORLDJewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal AmericaThis book has been published in conjunction withexhibition Facing the New World: Jewish Portraits inColonial and Federal America, presented at TheJewish Museum, New York, September 21,1997-January 11, 1998, and at The Maryland HistoricalSociety, Baltimore, February 19, 1998-May 24, 1998.Edited by Richard Brilliant, with an essay by EllenSmith, this publication contains numerous colorand black and white images. • $25.

THE LEHMANSThe Lehmans are one of America's most prominentGerman-Jewish dynasties. Their ancestor, AbrahamLehmann (1785-1865), lived in the Bavarian villageof Rimpar. After their emigration to Montgomery,Alabama, in the middle of the nineteenth century,his sons founded the banking firm of LehmanBrothers, today one of the most prestigious on WallStreet.Abraham Lehmann's descendants includingHerbert H. Lehman, governor and senator formNew York, Irving Lehman, chief justice of the NewYork State Court of Appeals, Robert Lehman, whogave his world-renowned art collection to theMetropolitan Museum of Art, Edgar M. Bronfman,Jr., CEO of Seagrams Corporation, Robert M.Morgenthau, New York County district attorney,John L. Loeb, Jr., former U.S. ambassador toDenmark, Sir Philip Goodhart, former Conservativemember of the British Parliament, Lord WilliamGoodhart, co-founder of the Liberal DemocraticParty of Great Britain, and Eva LehmannThalheimer, a first cousin of Governor Lehman. EvaThalheimer was killed in Treblinka.In June 1996, members of the Lehman family fromthe United States and England congregated inRimpar to pay tribute to their forebears and the vil-lage's Holocaust victims. In a personal message, U.S.president Bill Clinton wrote: "Germans andAmericans alike are proud to claim this family astheir own, and their ongoing success is a testamentto the spirit and values of both our nations."This second edition of The Lehmans includes anadditional chapter that tells the story behind thehighly emotional gathering in Rimpar • $15.

THE LEVY FAMILY AND MONTICELLOEach year more than a half-million people fromaround the world visit Monticello, but few peoplerealize that Jefferson's house was also home to thefamily of Uriah P. Levy and his nephew JeffersonMonroe Levy. Even fewer realize that without theLevy family's stewardship, there might not be aMonticello to visit.In a story filled with drama, irony, political wranglingand legal battles, Professor Melvin I. Urofsky cor-rects the misconception that a "century of ruin andneglect" marked Monticello between Jefferson'sdeath and the creation of the Thomas JeffersonFoundation, the private, nonprofit organization thattoday owns and operates Monticello.The story of the Levys and Monticello is a story ofthe blending of cultures and personalities, ofYankees and Virginians, of Jews and Christians, ofcity folk and rural people. It is the story of the powerof a symbol, and how in America such symbols cutacross lines of religion and class and ethnicity. Andbehind all of this is the presence of ThomasJefferson • $18.

LOOKING BACKWARDTrue Stories From Chicago's Jewish PastThe History of Jews in Chicago is a fascinating, com-plex and largely unknown story. Thanks to theunstinting efforts of Walter Roth, much of this his-tory has been preserved. Now, for the first time, thismaterial has been distilled into a single volume,chronicling events and people from the late nine-teenth century to the end of World War II. Thereare six broad themes, each of which includes sever-al essays: the first of which is "Chicago Jews and theSecular City: Builders, Movers, Shakers," whichincludes such topics as H.L. Meites' 1924 history ofChicago Jews; financier Lazarus Silverman; theUniversity of Chicago Centennial; Jewish participa-tion in the World's Columbian Exposition, and theJewish Day Pageant at the Century of Progress in1933. The other five themes are "Chicago Jews andAnti-Semitism"; "Chicago Jews and Zionism";"Renowned Visitors"; "Chicago Jews and the Arts,"and "Chicago Jews on Both Sides of the Law."Anyone interested in Chicago history, ethnic histo-ry, Jewish history, will find Looking Backwards a fas-cinating and informative read. • $27.95

THE JEWISH PEOPLE IN AMERICAFeingold, Henry, ed. The Jewish People in America.5 volumes. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UniversityPress, for the American Jewish Historical Society,1992. • $15 each

Volume I - A Time for PlantingIn the Autumn of 1654, twenty-three Jews aboard thebark Sainte Catherine landed at the town of NewAmsterdam to establish the first permanent Jewishsettlement in North America. In A Time forPlanting, Eli Faber recounts these earliest days ofJewish life in America, as Jews from Lisbon toAmsterdam to London extended the wanderings oftheir centuries-old diaspora.

Volume II - A Time for GatheringBetween 1820 and 1880, European Jews arrived inthe United States in ever greater numbers. Whilelater Jewish immigrants would criticize their "rush"to assimilation, the Jews of this period created theinstitutions that continue to shape Jewish life inAmerica. In A Time for Gathering, Hasia Dinerdescribes this "second wave" of Jewish migration.

Volume III - A Time for BuildingThe years between 1880 and 1920 marked the thirdgreat migration of Jews to the U.S.-including morethan two million from the Russian empire, Austria-Hungary, and Rumania. A Time for Buildingdescribes the experiences of Jews who stayed in thelarge cities of the Northeast and Midwest as well asthose who moved to smaller towns in the deep Southand the West.

Volume IV - A Time for SearchingHenry Feingold chronicles the turbulent periodbetween 1920 and 1945-when Jews were poised toenter the mainstream of American life-and exploresissues that would preoccupy America's Jewish com-munity for the rest of the century. Despite thespecter of anti-semitism, signs of success and accept-ance were everywhere.

Volume V - A Time for HealingA Time for Healing chronicles a time of rapid eco-nomic and social progress. Yet this phenomenal suc-cess, explains Edward S. Shapiro, came at a cost.Shapiro takes seriously the potential threat to Jewishculture posed by assimilation and intermarriage-ask-ing if the Jewish people, having already endured somuch, will survive America's freedom and affluenceas well.

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JEWISH HEROES OF THE WILD WESTDesigned for young readers and adapted from JewsAmong the Indians by M.L. Marks, Jewish Heroes ofthe Wild West contains the true stories of four immi-grant men who played exciting roles in variousaspects of Western development during the nine-teenth century.Members • $8.75. Non-mmbers • $10.95.

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SPICE AND SPIRITBy Esther Blau. The complete kosher Jewish cook-book is a completely revised edition of that best sell-ing book, containing more than 900 recipes, includ-ing traditional, natural, gourmet, and internationalcooking styles, all in a more convenient size withimproved design, new illustrations, and a thoroughindex. The sections have been rewritten to appeal toboth non-observant and committed Jews, and to pro-vide clear, in depth information for every level ofobservance.

Hardcover • $35.95. Paperback • $21.95.

CONGRESSIONAL MINYANSince 1841, the first year a Jew was elected to theUnited States Congress, 179 Jewish men and womenhave served in either the House or Senate. Somewere so unrecognizable in their Jewishness as to beall but invisible. Others were the product of familiessteeped in the religious customs, practices and tradi-tions of their fathers and mothers. The members ofthis "Congressional Minyan" have little in commonsave their ancestry. They have been Democrats andRepublicans, Whigs and Socialists, radicals and reac-tionaries. In short, the dramatic personae compris-ing "The Congressional Minyan" is a microcosm ofAmerica. • $29

THE JEWISH JUSTICES OF THE SUPREMECOURT REVISITED: BRANDEIS TO FORTASOf the thirty-nine Justices who sat on the UnitedStates Supreme Court between 1916 and 1969, fivewere Jewish: Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin N.Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Arthur J. Goldberg, andAbe Fortas. With a Preface by Justice Stephen G.Breyer and Introduction by Justice Ruth BaderGinsburg, The Jewish Justices of the Supreme Courtdevotes a chapter to each of these Jewish Justices.Lowe, Jennifer M., ed. The Jewish Justices of theSupreme Court Revisited: Brandeis to Fortas.Washington, D.C.: The Supreme Court HistoricalSociety and the American Jewish Historical Society,1994. Paperback • $10.

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YIDDISH NOTE CARDSIn the early part of the 20th century, American Jewish immigrants from Yiddish-speaking lands in Eastern andCentral Europe sent Rosh Hashanah and other holiday greeting via Yiddish postcards. Quite possibly, your owngrandparents or parents received an original of one of the cards shown here. The American Jewish HistoricalSociety has assiduously collected and preserved hundreds of these cards in its archives as a way to mark theimmigrant experience in America. The Society has now selected twenty-seven of these cards and made themavailable as note cards to its members and supporters. Each box contains a series of 2 copies of 9 unique andcolorful cards - a total of 18 cards and 18 envelopes in each box. When you've finished sending all the cards,you will want to use the sturdy, attractive box for years to come.

Boxed set of 18 cards • $14.99. Please specify box I or II as illustrated above. (box III sold out)

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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 byAmerican 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. In1976, the original handwritten version of the sonnet traveled across the nation as part of our Bicentennial celebration. Now, you can own your own copy ofLazarus's stirring poem in her own hand. After Emma Lazarus died, her family bequeathed to the Society the personal notebook in which Lazarus hand wrotea 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.

“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,

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J. EAST SIDE SADIECirca 1929. “A $100,000 production. Thrilling from begin-ning to end. The greatest and most interesting that you haveever seen. It took a year to produce. You will weep and laughuntil you cry when you see ‘ East Side Sadie.’ ” P roducer:Worldart Film Company. Director: Sidney Goldin. Printedby Universal Theatrical Corporation, New York, N.Y.;silkscreen in orange, aqua, black and pink; 28 x 41 in.

K. THE MESSIAH IS COMINGCirca 1937. Music: Joseph Rumshinsky. Libretto: WilliamSiegel. Place: Satz Rumshinsky Public Theatre, 66 SecondAvenue at Fourth Street, New York City, New York. Cast:Ludwig Satz. Director: Ludwig Satz. Printed by Trio Press,New York, N.Y.; stone lithography in red and black; 27x41 in.

L. TEVYA EL LECHERO - TEVYE THE MILKMANCirca 1939. Producer: Henry Ziskin. Director: MauriceSchwartz. Author: Sholom Aleichem. Music: SholomSecunda. Cast: Maurice Schwartz. Printed by Arroupe eImmediala, stone lithography in green, blue, red, yellow andblack; 28 x 37 in.

M. HIS WIFE’S LOVER27 x 42 in.

N. VAUDEVILLE – LUDWIG SATZCirca 1930's. Place: Premier Theatre, Sutter Avenue andHinsdale Street, Brooklyn, New York. Producer: Edwin A.Relkin. Main content: Satz portrayed in seven of his keyroles. Printed by Trio Press, New York, N.Y.; stone lithogra-phy in black, red, yellow and blue with letterpress imprint inred; 27 x 42 in.

O. LUDWIG SATZ27 x 42 in.

P. THE GOLDBERGS AND JACOBSProducer: Edwin A. Relkin. Printed by Trio Press, New York,N.Y.; stone lithography in blue, red, yellow and black; 28x40in.

Q. THE RABBI’S MELODYSeptember 25, 1919. Music: Joseph Rumshinsky. Lyrics:Gershon Bader. Place: Second Ave. Theatre, 35 Second Ave.,New York City, New York. Printed by J.H. Tooker, New York,N.Y.; stone lithography in yellow, blue and black with letter-press imprint in red; 27 x 40 in.

R. MOISHE OYSHER27 x 42 in.

S. THE RABBI’S FAMILY - 2 figures September 15, 1921. Author: Joseph Lateiner. Music: JosephBrody. Place: The People’s Theatre, Bowery and SpringStreet, New York City, New York. Cast: Bertha Gersten,Samuel Goldenberg, Ludwig Satz, Nettie Tobias and an “allstar cast.” Director: Max Rosentha. Printed by BerkshirePoster Co., New York, N.Y.; stone lithography in yellow, red,blue, green and black; 27 x 42 in.

Beautiful, historic and charming Yiddish TheaterPosters reproduced from the originals in ourarchives. None of these posters are known to becommercially available. Museum quality printingon acid-free paper using ultraviolet resistant inks.Original proportions are approximately 28 x 42inches. Available in a choice of standard sizes,posters will have a white border and are suitablefor framing.

11x14 • $30. 16x20 • $40. 24x36 • $60.Original size up to 30x44 • $150.

A. THE GREEN MILLIONAIREFebruary 19-22, 1915. Author: Abraham Shomer. Music:Perlmutter & Wohl. Place: Thomashefsky Theatre,Houston Street and Second Avenue, New York City, NewYork. Printed by Lipshitz Press, New York, N.Y.; letterpressin black and red; 17 x 42 in.

B. EL RABINO AMERICANOCast: Leo Fuchs, Chana Hollander. Producer: MideBrothers. Printed by Sisto, Lemme y Cia., Buenos Aires,Argentina; stone lithography in blue, red, yellow andblack; 29 x 42 in.

C. THE MIRACLE OF THE WARSAW GHETTO “Buy U.S. War Bonds” . Banner in illustration reads:“Jews never give up hope".Author: H. Leivick. Music:Sholom Secunda. Place: New Jewish Folk Theatre, 2ndAvenue at 12th Street, New York City, New York. Printedby Trio Press, New York, N.Y.; letterpress in red andbrown; 27 x 43 in.

D. THE RABBI’S FAMILY - 4 FIGURESSeptember 15, 1921. Author: Joseph Lateiner. Music:Joseph Brody. Place: The People’s Theatre, Bowery andSpring Street, New York City, New York. Cast: BerthaGersten, Samuel Goldenberg, Ludwig Satz, Nettie Tobiasand an “all star cast.” Director: Max Rosenthal. Printedby Berkshire Poster Co., New York, N.Y.; stone lithogra-phy in yellow, red, blue, green and black; 27 x 42 in.

E. MOLLY PICON - AY QUE MUCHACHA! August 9, 1932. Author: Harry Kalmanowitch. Music:Joseph Rumshinsky. Place: Teatro Excelsior, BuenosAires, Argentina. Cast: Jacob Kalich, Molly Picon. Printedby Sisto y Lemme, Buenos Aires; stone lithography inblue, red, yellow and black; 28 x 43 in.

F. THE LUNATICJanuary 18th, 1922. Author: Harry Kalmanowitch. Place:People’s Theatre, Bowery and Spring Street, New YorkCity, New York. Cast: Bertha Gersten, Sidney Hart,Ludwig Satz, Jacob Wexler. Producer: Max Rosenthal.Printed by Berkshire Poster Co., NY, N.Y.; stone lithogra-phy in green, red, blue, yellow and black; 27 x 40 in.

G. MAURICE SCHWARTZ Printed by Trio Press, New York, N.Y.; silkscreen in beigeand black; 26 x 42 in.

H. YIDDISH ART THEATRE24 x 40 in.

I. WHERE IS MY CHILD?Circa 1937. Producer: Menorah Productions, Inc.Directors: Abraham Le ã and Henry Lynn. Cast: CeliaAdler, Anna Lillian, Morris Silberkasten, MorrisStrassberg, Ruben Wendorf. Printing: offset lithographyin blue, orange, yellow and black; 26 x 40 in.

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AApprriill 22000033NOT FOR MYSELF ALONE - APRIL 10 THRU SEPTEMBER 10An exhibition of first editions and rare books by Jewish American authors from 1798 to the present, selected from theLeonard L. Milberg Collection at Princeton University. Also contains correspondence, photographs, drawings andmemorabilia.

20TH CENTURY COMPOSERS IN AMERICA - APRIL 27Concert, featuring works by Karol Rathaus, Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Schoenfield, Kurt Weill, Stefan Wolpe and RonnYedidia and artists Patricia Prunty, soprano; Donald Pirone, piano; Vladimir Valjarevic, piano; Mimi Stern-Wolfe, piano;Ronn Yedidia, piano trio; and the Downtown Chamber Players. Co-sponsored with the American Society for JewishMusic. 3:00 pm, $8 adults, $4 students and seniors.

MMaayy 22000033TO LIVE WITH TERROR: THE UNSOLVED ATTACKS IN BUENOS AIRES* - MAY 19Documentary film by Ton Vriens, USA, 2002, 56 mins., in Spanish with English subtitles. Part of the series, Anti-Semitism: A History of Hatred,* presented by the 5 partners of the Center for Jewish History. 7:00 pm, $7; $3.50 for stu-dents, seniors.

THE EMMA LAZARUS STATUE OF LIBERTY AWARD DINNER - MAY 20Honoring Mortimer B. Zuckerman. The Pierre, New York City. By invitation. Call Benefit Office: 212 935-1840 forinformation.

KLEZMER EN BUENOS AIRES - MAY 31Concert featuring Cesar Lerner, piano, accordion, percussion; and Marcelo Moguilevsky, clarinet, flutes, vocals.8:00 pm, $25.00.

JJuunnee 22000033FOCUS* - JUNE 9A feature film based on the Arthur Miller novel, Focus. Directed by Neal Slavin, USA, 2001, 106 mins. Robert Miller,producer and son of the author, will speak. Part of the series, Anti-Semitism: A History of Hatred, presented by the 5partners of the Center for Jewish History.

ARCHIVIST ACHIEVEMENT AWARD PRESENTATION - JUNE 10 John Taylor, of the National Archives will be honored. Author Robert Caro will speak.6:30 pm reception, 7:30 pm program.

FFaallll aanndd WWiinntteerr 22000033--220000443RD ANNUAL HANK GREENBERG SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD DINNER. Date to be announced.

IRVING BERLIN AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN SONGBOOK - SEPTEMBER 2003Selma L. Batkin Mezzanine Gallery, September, 2003

FILM SERIES - FALL 2003 & WINTER 2004 Titles and dates to be announced.

5TH ANNUAL CHANUKAH CONCERT - DECEMBER 2003American Society for Jewish Music. Leo and Julia Forzheimer Auditorium, Center for Jewish History.

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