Virtual Visit: Meet Emma Lazarus
Step back in time and into the sitting room of Emma Lazarus. Engage with her about her life and world in this live interactive family program.
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The Emma Lazarus Curriculum
The Emma Lazarus Project curriculum provides students with the opportunity to analyze and engage with primary source materials in order to gain a deeper understanding of the United State’s long struggle with nativism, prejudice, and antisemitism.
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Mayses From the Stacks
AJHS's blog features collection highlights, exclusive interviews, hidden histories, recipes, and more!
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Interactive Timeline
Follow 360 years of the Jewish experience in America, from our nation’s founding to the present day, as told through our archival collections.
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Support Your Heritage
Our mission of acquisition, preservation, and dissemination of American Jewish history is made possible by the generosity of people like you.
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LIVE FROM THE ARCHIVES: Ruth Bader Ginsburg- Her Role Models and the Hadassah Archive
November 2, 2020
1:00 pm
A New Interactive Zoom Series from AJHS!
On View: December 4, 2019 to December 31, 2022
Emma Lazarus, Union Square & American Identity
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What's an Etrog to do? Turn your Sukkot Etrog into Citron Cookies and Preserves
When the weather shifts cooler and it’s time to celebrate fall, Jewish people around the world assemble the Four Species: palm, willow, myrtle and etrog. The etrog fruit is held in the left hand, the bundle of branches in the right, and together they are waved in the morning on the first seven days of Sukkot. But at least one of these four holy plants should have a life in your kitchen after the holiday: the etrog is edible.
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UJA-Federation of NY Collection
Archival material connected with the projects and philanthropic mission of UJA-Federation of NY.
Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement
Details the sacrifices made by countless activists to liberate the Jews of the Soviet Union.
