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Gertrude "Tiby" Eisen, baseball player. Black and white portrait photograph

Gertrude "Tiby" Eisen, baseball player. Black and white portrait photo...

Title: Gertrude "Tiby" Eisen..Description: "Tiby" Eisen swings a baseball bat...Creator: Unknown..Medium: Black and white photograph ..Date: 1945 ..Collection: American Jewish Historical Society Photography Col... More

Ray Frank Litman - Black and White Portrait Photograph

Ray Frank Litman - Black and White Portrait Photograph

Title: Ray Frank Litman..Creator: Unknown..Medium: Black and white photograph ..Date: 1900..Call Number: P-46..Collection: Ray Frank Litman Papers..Repository: American Jewish Historical Society ( http://www.aj... More

Justine Wise Polier - Black and White Portrait Photograph

Justine Wise Polier - Black and White Portrait Photograph

Title: Justine Wise Polier..Creator: Unknown..Medium: Black and white photograph ..Date: undated..Call Number: P-572..Collection: Shad Polier Papers..Repository: American Jewish Historical Society ( http://www.... More

Cecilia Greenstone New York

Cecilia Greenstone New York

Title: Cecilia Greenstone..Creator: Unknown..Medium: Black and white photograph ..Date: undated..Call Number: P-683..Collection: Cecilia Greenstone Photographs..Repository: American Jewish Historical Society ( ... More

The Cardozo Sisters - Public domain portrait print

The Cardozo Sisters - Public domain portrait print

Title: The Cardozo sisters..Creator: Unknown..Medium: Black and white photograph ..Date: undated..Collection: American Jewish Historical Society Photography Collection..Repository: American Jewish Historical So... More

Adah Menken, Louisiana - An old photo of a woman dressed in costume

Adah Menken, Louisiana - An old photo of a woman dressed in costume

Title: Adah Menken..Creator Unknown..Medium: Black and white photograph ..Date: undated..Call Number: P-559..Collection: Adah Isaacs Menken Collection..Repository: American Jewish Historical Society ( http://ww... More

Louise Waterman Wise and Justine Wise

Louise Waterman Wise and Justine Wise

Title: Louise Waterman Wise and Justine Wise..Creator: Unknown..Medium: Black and white photograph ..Date: 1920..Call Number: P-572..Collection: Shad Polier Papers..Repository: American Jewish Historical Societ... More

Selina Seixas - Black and White Portrait Photograph

Selina Seixas - Black and White Portrait Photograph

Title: Selina Seixas with chair..Creator: Unknown..Medium: Black and white photograph ..Date: 1860..Collection:American Jewish Historical Society Photography Collection..Repository: American Jewish Historical S... More

Rosh Hashanah at Plaza Hotel, Manila, Philippines

Rosh Hashanah at Plaza Hotel, Manila, Philippines

Description: Rosh Hashanah at Plaza Hotel, Manila, Philippines..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: Photograph. .Date: 1929..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210304 ( http://digital.cjh.org... More

Chaplain Abraham Dubin, holding a challah bread, leads a High Holiday service in India

Chaplain Abraham Dubin, holding a challah bread, leads a High Holiday ...

Description: Chaplain Abraham Dubin, holding a challah bread, leads a High Holiday service in India..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: Photograph..Date: 1944..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&objec... More

Rosh Hashanah, 1943 - A group of men standing next to each other

Rosh Hashanah, 1943 - A group of men standing next to each other

Description: Text on back of photograph: Rosh Hashanah, 1943. Left to right; H.R.[?] Schiff, American Red Cross ; Maj. J. Frank, USA ; Capt. Toloff, USA ; Capt. S. Meyers, USA ; Chaplain Solomon E. Cherniak, US... More

Sidney Franklin standing on the set of 'The Kid from Spain'

Sidney Franklin standing on the set of 'The Kid from Spain'

Description: Sidney Franklin standing on the set of 'The Kid from Spain,' 1932. Sidney Franklin (1903-1976), was a Brooklyn-born Jewish bullfighter who is also known for his close friendship with Ernest Hemingw... More

Dedication exercises, J.W.B. Canteen Hut, Seward Park, New York City, November 10, 1918

Dedication exercises, J.W.B. Canteen Hut, Seward Park, New York City, ...

Description: Dedication exercises, J.W.B. Canteen Hut, Seward Park, New York City, November 10, 1918 ..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: November 10, 1918..: digi... More

Packing matzo for shipment to troops, 1917-1919

Packing matzo for shipment to troops, 1917-1919

Description: Packing matzo for shipment to troops, 1917-1919..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: 1917-1919..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=2103... More

Ex-servicemen at dinner on Rosh Hashanah in front of Synagogue at Kings Park, NY, 1923

Ex-servicemen at dinner on Rosh Hashanah in front of Synagogue at King...

Description: Ex-servicemen at dinner on Rosh Hashanah in front of Synagogue at Kings Park, NY..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: September 11, 1923..: digital.cjh... More

Women and men in uniform, circa 1917

Women and men in uniform, circa 1917

Description: Women and men in uniform, circa 1917..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: circa 1917..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210280 ( http:... More

Yom Kippur services for our boys somewhere in France, circa 1917

Yom Kippur services for our boys somewhere in France, circa 1917

Description: Yom Kippur services for our boys somewhere in France, circa 1917..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: circa 1917..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-f... More

Women and soldiers at an event at Camp Raritan, circa 1920

Women and soldiers at an event at Camp Raritan, circa 1920

Description: Women and soldiers at an event at Camp Raritan, circa 1920..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: circa 1920..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&ob... More

Chaplain presiding over religious service with soldiers at Camp Raritan, circa 1920

Chaplain presiding over religious service with soldiers at Camp Rarita...

Description: Chaplain presiding over religious service with soldiers at Camp Raritan, circa 1920..Creator/Photographer: unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: circa 1920..: digital.cjh.org/... More

Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz conducts services among "Dragon's Teeth", circa 1945

Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz conducts services among "Dragon's Teeth", ci...

Description: Chaplain Sidney Lefkowitz conducts services among "Dragon's Teeth", circa 1945..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Note: Text on back of photograph: Standing in the middle of the Dragons' Teeth," World... More

Billiards tournament, Connecticut, February 26, 1947

Billiards tournament, Connecticut, February 26, 1947

Description: Billiards tournament, Connecticut, February 26, 1947..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: Billiards tournament, Connecticut, February 26, 1947..: digit... More

Ping-pong at Bridgeport JCC Youth Conference, February 26, 1947

Ping-pong at Bridgeport JCC Youth Conference, February 26, 1947

Description: Ping-pong at Bridgeport JCC Youth Conference, February 26, 1947..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: February 26, 1947..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-... More

Boy and girl play ping-pong, circa 1950

Boy and girl play ping-pong, circa 1950

Description: Boy and girl play ping-pong, circa 1950..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print..Date: circa 1950..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210852 ( htt... More

Boys playing basketball

Boys playing basketball

Description: Boys playing basketball..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: December undated..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210760 ( http://digit... More

Men and boys playing paddleball, Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1950

Men and boys playing paddleball, Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1950

Description: Men and boys playing paddleball, Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1950..Creator/Photographer: Klebanow, Ivan J..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: circa 1960..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-... More

Runners-up in national Y.M.H.A. basketball tournament, April 1927

Runners-up in national Y.M.H.A. basketball tournament, April 1927

Description: Runners-up in national Y.M.H.A. basketball tournament, April 1927. Text on back of photograph: 1926-1927, Paterson, N.J. YMHA. Runners-up in National YMHA Basketball Tournament conducted by Metropo... More

Bridgeport community youth conference, basketball game, circa 1950

Bridgeport community youth conference, basketball game, circa 1950

Description: Bridgeport community youth conference, basketball game, circa 1950..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Medium: negative. .Date: circa 1950..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210380 ( h... More

Boy aims at basketball hoop

Boy aims at basketball hoop

Description: Boy aims at basketball hoop. Text on back of photograph: There are many sports activities at the JCC, and basketball is one of the most popular. More than 200 youngsters competed in leagues there t... More

Boys from the Toledo JCC basketball team chasing after ball

Boys from the Toledo JCC basketball team chasing after ball

Description: Boys from the Toledo JCC basketball team chasing after ball..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: undated..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&obje... More

Boys playing basketball outside

Boys playing basketball outside

Description: Boys playing basketball outside. Text on back of photograph: There are many sports activities at the JCC, and basketball is one of the most popular. More than 200 youngsters competed in leagues the... More

Y.M.H.A. basketball team, Nov. 8, 1929, Pittsburgh, PA

Y.M.H.A. basketball team, Nov. 8, 1929, Pittsburgh, PA

Description: Y.M.H.A. basketball team, Nov. 8, 1929, Pittsburgh, PA..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: 1929 November 8..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&o... More

Irene Kaufmann Settlement, varsity basketball team, Dec. 1929

Irene Kaufmann Settlement, varsity basketball team, Dec. 1929

Description: Irene Kaufmann Settlement, varsity basketball team, Dec. 1929..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: December 1929..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-f... More

Irene Kaufmann Settlement, junior basketball team, Dec. 1929

Irene Kaufmann Settlement, junior basketball team, Dec. 1929

Description: Irene Kaufmann Settlement, junior basketball team, Dec. 1929..Creator/Photographer: Unknown..Medium: black-and-white photographic print. .Date: December 1929..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-fu... More

Woman selling many kinds of cake at 164 Orchard Street, New York.

Woman selling many kinds of cake at 164 Orchard Street, New York.

Description: Woman selling many kinds of cake at 164 Orchard Street, New York...Creator/Photographer: Lightman, J.B., 1904-2005, photographer. Additional photographers, Abraham Simon, Esther Davidson...Medium: ... More

Man selling Yiddish song sheets at Northeast corner of Essex and Delancey Streets, New York.

Man selling Yiddish song sheets at Northeast corner of Essex and Delan...

Description: Man selling Yiddish song sheets at Northeast corner of Essex and Delancey Streets, New York...Creator/Photographer: Lightman, J.B., 1904-2005, photographer..Medium: negative. .Date: 1933 October 28... More

Max Ber Bookbinder and Hebrew Bookstore

Max Ber Bookbinder and Hebrew Bookstore

Description: Max Ber Bookbinder and Hebrew Bookstore...Creator/Photographer: Lightman, J.B., 1904-2005, photographer..Medium: negative. .Date: 1933 January 27..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id... More

Preparing for the Seder in the kitchen of the Community House, Biloxi, Miss., April 13, 1949

Preparing for the Seder in the kitchen of the Community House, Biloxi,...

Description: Preparing for the Seder in the kitchen of the Community House, Biloxi, Miss., April 13, 1949. Text on back of photograph: Preparing for the Seder in the kitchen of the Community House, Biloxi, Miss... More

Pfc. Morton Gutstadt tried out the gefilte fish of Mrs. Dave Starr..., 1952

Pfc. Morton Gutstadt tried out the gefilte fish of Mrs. Dave Starr...,...

Description: Text on back of photograph: Passover 1952 in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Starr, 1575 Federal. Pfc. Morton Gutstadt of Fitzsimons Army Hospital tried out the gefilte fish of Mrs. Dave Starr with m... More

Hospital visiting committee sets out to bring Passover food packages, 1952

Hospital visiting committee sets out to bring Passover food packages, ...

Description: Text on back of photograph: A hospital visiting committee sets out to bring Passover food packages to patients at a military hospital near Denver, Colo. At the door of car receiving packages: Betty... More

Soldiers sitting at tables during Passover meal, circa 1945

Soldiers sitting at tables during Passover meal, circa 1945

Description: Soldiers sitting at tables during Passover meal, circa 1945..Creator/Photographer: Unidentified Photographer..Medium: Photography Negative. .Date: ca. 1945..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-ful... More

U.S. Army and Navy Passover in Dijon France, 1919

U.S. Army and Navy Passover in Dijon France, 1919

Description: U.S. Army and Navy Passover in Dijon France, 1919..Creator/Photographer: Unidentified Photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: 1919..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-fu... More

Group portrait of Passover Seder, Manila, Philippines, 1925

Group portrait of Passover Seder, Manila, Philippines, 1925

Description: Group portrait of Passover Seder, Manila, Philippines, 1925..Creator/Photographer: Unidentified Photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: 1925..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=db... More

Portrait of basketball team, 1925

Portrait of basketball team, 1925

Description: Basketball held by boy in center reads: "Champion's [sic] 1925 ; Schonthal-Sa. League ; Stanly Pirates 1925."..Creator/Photographer: Unidentified Photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic ... More

Vocational guidance, Hebrew Technical Institute, circa 1920

Vocational guidance, Hebrew Technical Institute, circa 1920

Description: Vocational guidance, Hebrew Technical Institute, circa 1920..Creator/Photographer: Myers, Hiram..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: ca. 1920..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-f... More

Invitation to the J.W.B. Passover Seder, Manila, Philippines, March 29-31, 1926

Invitation to the J.W.B. Passover Seder, Manila, Philippines, March 29...

Description: Text of invitation: Jewish Welfare Board Pesach Sederim, Manila. The Jewish Welfare Board Army and Navy Service Department cordially invites you and all other men of Jewish faith of the United Stat... More

Seder at the Y.M.H.A. of Baltimore, April 8, 1925

Seder at the Y.M.H.A. of Baltimore, April 8, 1925

Description: Seder at the Y.M.H.A. of Baltimore, April 8, 1925..Creator/Photographer: Unidentified Photographer. .Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: 1925 April 8..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbi... More

Dance at the J.W.B. Servicemen's Center, Waukegan, Illinois, 1919

Dance at the J.W.B. Servicemen's Center, Waukegan, Illinois, 1919

Description: Text on back of photograph: 1919. Dance at the J.W.B. Servicemen's Center Waukegan, Illinois. 1. Mrs. Ethel Gordon Boller (deceased) 2. Miss Esther Burke 3. Mrs. Florence Kaye Fenchel 4. Miss Mae R... More

Youth conference activities, Bridgeport, Conn., circa 1950

Youth conference activities, Bridgeport, Conn., circa 1950

Description: Youth conference activities, Bridgeport, Conn., circa 1950..Date: circa 1950..Medium: Photograph..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=209916 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-ju... More

Y.M. & Y.W.H.A., young women in costume, circa 1930

Y.M. & Y.W.H.A., young women in costume, circa 1930

Description: Y.M. & Y.W.H.A., young women in costume..Date: circa 1930..Medium: Photograph..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=209928 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=2... More

Hartford YWHA, gymnasium class, 1922-1923, Burr School gym

Hartford YWHA, gymnasium class, 1922-1923, Burr School gym

Description: Hartford YWHA, gymnasium class, 1922-1923, Burr School gym..Date: 1922-1923..Medium: Photograph..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=209912 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jum... More

Awarding trophies to captains of winning teams, October 14, 1937

Awarding trophies to captains of winning teams, October 14, 1937

Description: Text on back of photograph, typed on the letterhead of the Jewish Community Center of Oakland, Calif., October 14, 1937: Awarding Trophies to Captains of Winning Teams. All Nations Basketball Tourn... More

Jewish Youth Conference, 1948

Jewish Youth Conference, 1948

Description: Text on back of photograph: National Jewish Youth Conference, Camp Wel-Met, 1948...Creator: Weissenstein, Heinz H...Date: 1948..Medium: Photograph..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_... More

Hang-dai "Y" 1924-1925 champs, Birmingham, Alabama.

Hang-dai "Y" 1924-1925 champs, Birmingham, Alabama.

Description: Hang-dai "Y" 1924-1925 champs, Birmingham, Alabama...Date: 1925..Medium: Photograph..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=209888 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&objec... More

J.W.B. Dinner - Eighth Street Temple, Jan. 23, 1923, Washington, D.C

J.W.B. Dinner - Eighth Street Temple, Jan. 23, 1923, Washington, D.C

Description: J.W.B. Dinner - Eighth Street Temple, Jan. 23, 1923, Washington, D.C..Date: January 23, 1923..Medium: Photograph..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=209840 ( http://digital.cjh.org... More

World War I, Camp Meade, MD, 1917-1918

World War I, Camp Meade, MD, 1917-1918

Description: World War I, Camp Meade, MD, 1917-1918..Date: 1917-1918..Medium: Photograph..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=209872 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=209... More

Synagogue construction, Baron De Hirsch Trade School, South Jersey Colonies, Carmel, NJ

Synagogue construction, Baron De Hirsch Trade School, South Jersey Col...

Description: Synagogue construction, BDH Trade School, South Jersey Colonies, Carmel, NJ..Date: undated..Medium: Lantern slide..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118068 ( http://digital.cjh.or... More

Women, children and houses, South Jersey Colonies

Women, children and houses, South Jersey Colonies

Description: Women, children and houses, South Jersey Colonies..Date: undated..Medium: Lantern slide..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118053 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&o... More

Coming from the N. Snellenburg & Company Manufactory, South Jersey Colonies

Coming from the N. Snellenburg & Company Manufactory, South Jersey Col...

Description: Workers coming from the N. Snellenburg & Company Manufactory of All Kinds of Tailor Made Clothing, South Jersey Colonies..Date: undated..Medium: Lantern slide..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-... More

Coming from Synagogue in Brotmanville, New Jersey

Coming from Synagogue in Brotmanville, New Jersey

Description: Coming from Synagogue in Brotmanville, New Jersey..Date: ca. 1900..Medium: Lantern slide..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118254 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&... More

Students in the incubation room at the Woodbine Agricultural School, New Jersey

Students in the incubation room at the Woodbine Agricultural School, N...

Description: Students in the incubation room at the Woodbine Agricultural School, New Jersey..Date: ca. 1900..Medium: Lantern slide..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118167 ( http://digital.c... More

Group of Woodbine Agricultural School students, Woodbine, New Jersey

Group of Woodbine Agricultural School students, Woodbine, New Jersey

Description: Group of Woodbine Agricultural School students, Woodbine, New Jersey..Date: ca. 1900..Medium: Lantern slide..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118215 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?f... More

Men in meeting, Woodbine, NJ

Men in meeting, Woodbine, NJ

Description: Men in meeting, Woodbine, NJ..Medium: Lantern slide. .: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118116 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118116 ) ..Repository: Ame... More

In the classroom, Woodbine School, NJ

In the classroom, Woodbine School, NJ

Description: In the classroom, Woodbine School, NJ..Medium: Lantern slide..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118071 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118071 ) ..Reposit... More

Boy in corn field, Woodbine, New Jersey

Boy in corn field, Woodbine, New Jersey

Description: Boy in corn field, Woodbine, New Jersey..Date: ca. 1900..Medium: Lantern slide. .: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118242 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id... More

Rejoicing in the Law - Simchas Torah

Rejoicing in the Law - Simchas Torah

Description: Rejoicing in the Law - Simchas Torah..Medium: Lantern slide. .Date:ca. 1900..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118233 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=11... More

Group of young school students, Woodbine, New Jersey

Group of young school students, Woodbine, New Jersey

Description: Group of young school students, Woodbine, New Jersey..Medium: Lantern slide. .Date:ca. 1900..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118218 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-fu... More

Watermelon party, Woodbine, New Jersey

Watermelon party, Woodbine, New Jersey

Description: Watermelon party, Woodbine, New Jersey..Medium: Lantern slide. .Date:ca. 1900..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118185 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=1... More

Military Band, Woodbine, New Jersey.

Military Band, Woodbine, New Jersey.

Description: Military Band, Woodbine, New Jersey..Medium: Lantern slide. .Date: circa 1900..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=118179 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=1... More

Soldiers celebrating Hanukah at Little White House, Camp Gordon, GA, circa 1917

Soldiers celebrating Hanukah at Little White House, Camp Gordon, GA, c...

Description: Soldiers celebrating Hanukah at Little White House, Camp Gordon, GA, circa 1917..Medium: Postcard. .Date: ca. 1917..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=210016 ( http://digital.cjh.o... More

Hanukah party held for Jewish servicemen..., 1952

Hanukah party held for Jewish servicemen..., 1952

Description: Text on back of photograph: Chanukah party held for Jewish servicemen from the Fleet and the Naval Base. Refreshments and Chanukah cheer provided by the Temple Beth El Sisterhood under auspices of ... More

Chaplain Dicker hands out Hanukah gifts to soldiers in Austria, 1951

Chaplain Dicker hands out Hanukah gifts to soldiers in Austria, 1951

Description: Chaplain Dicker hands out Hanukah gifts to soldiers in Austria, 1951..Medium: Photograph. .Date: 1951..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=211112 ( http://digital.cjh.org/R/?func=db... More

Jacob Kalich (left) in Mezrach und Maarev, 1921

Jacob Kalich (left) in Mezrach und Maarev, 1921

Description: Jacob Kalich (left) in Mezrach und Maarev, 1921. The comedy Mezrach und Maarev was written by Sidney M. Goldin and Eugen Preiss. It was filmed as Ost und West in 1923 and was also known as Mazel To... More

Colonel Gorfinkle and President Wilson

Colonel Gorfinkle and President Wilson

Description: From the Papers of Colonel Bernard L. Gorfinkle, who was present at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 as a military aide to President W. Wilson. The photo was taken in Paris after th... More

Purim Party at Ludwig Satz's House in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, ca. 1925

Purim Party at Ludwig Satz's House in Sea Gate, Brooklyn, ca. 1925

Description: Yiddish Theater actors, among them Celia Adler, at a Purim party. The Purim party took place at Ludwig Satz's house in Sea Gate Brooklyn, ca. 1925. The boy in front is the son of Celia Adler and La... More

The Seder, circa 1943 - A group of men sitting around a long table

The Seder, circa 1943 - A group of men sitting around a long table

Description: The Seder, circa 1943, held in Europe during WWII..Creator/Photographer: Unidentified Photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: Circa 1943..Repository: American Jewish Histo... More

Jacob Schiff in a boardroom, Israel

Jacob Schiff in a boardroom, Israel

Description: Jews of the U.S. who have distributed twelve million dollars of the relief moneys raised by American Jewry since the beginning of WWI. Jacob Schiff, philanthropist, international banker and one of ... More

Hadassah members dressed as nurses

Hadassah members dressed as nurses

Description: Hadassah members dressed as nurses to raise money for Hadassah's School Lunch program in Palestine. Photograph published in "Hadassah Newsletter, May-June 1932.”..Creator/Photographer: Unidentifie... More

Association for Free Distribution of Matsot to the Poor (New York, N.Y.) records, 1855-1858

Association for Free Distribution of Matsot to the Poor (New York, N.Y...

Description: This collection was featured in April 2009 in the online edition of the New York Times on the occasion of Passover. Read the article ( http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/a-bread-line-unle... More

Nurses and physicians from the American Zionist Medical Unit on camels in Egypt en route to Palestine in July 1918

Nurses and physicians from the American Zionist Medical Unit on camels...

Description: AZMU nurses and physicians on camels in Egypt en route to Palestine in July 1918..Creator/Photographer: Unidentified Photographer..Medium: Black and white photographic print ..Dimensions: 14 x 20 c... More

Photograph 1, April 21, 1950

Photograph 1, April 21, 1950

Description: Photograph 1 (Box 1, Folder 15)..Creator/Photographer: Raphael Lemkin, 1900-1959..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: April 21, 1950..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&obje... More

Photograph 2 - An old photo of a woman standing in a garden

Photograph 2 - An old photo of a woman standing in a garden

Description: Photograph 2 (Box 1, Folder 15)..Creator/Photographer: Raphael Lemkin, 1900-1959..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: undated..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=3... More

Photograph 3 - An old photo of a woman and a child

Photograph 3 - An old photo of a woman and a child

Description: Photograph 3 (Box 1, Folder 15)..Creator/Photographer: Raphael Lemkin, 1900-1959..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: undated..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=3... More

Photograph 4 - An old black and white photo of two people

Photograph 4 - An old black and white photo of two people

Description: Photograph 4 (Box 1, Folder 15)..Creator/Photographer: Raphael Lemkin, 1900-1959..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: undated..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=3... More

Photograph 5 - A couple of women standing on a set of stairs

Photograph 5 - A couple of women standing on a set of stairs

Description: Photograph 5 (Box 1, Folder 15)..Creator/Photographer: Raphael Lemkin, 1900-1959..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: undated..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=3... More

Photograph 6 - An old photo of a man in a suit and tie

Photograph 6 - An old photo of a man in a suit and tie

Description: Photograph 6 (Box 1, Folder 15)..Creator/Photographer: Raphael Lemkin, 1900-1959..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: undated..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=3... More

Photograph 7 - A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie

Photograph 7 - A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie

Description: Photograph 7 (Box 1, Folder 15)..Creator/Photographer: Raphael Lemkin, 1900-1959..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: undated..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=3... More

Photograph 8 - An old photo of a man standing in the snow

Photograph 8 - An old photo of a man standing in the snow

Description: Photograph 8 (Box 1, Folder 15)..Creator/Photographer: Raphael Lemkin, 1900-1959..Medium: Black and white photographic print . .Date: undated..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=3... More

The New Colossus - Public domain document scan of engraving

The New Colossus - Public domain document scan of engraving

Description: This is a page from a manuscript notebook from Emma Lazarus, featuring the sonnet "The New Colossus." The poem was written in 1883 and, in 1903, engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the ... More

Purim Celebration in Leningrad

Purim Celebration in Leningrad

Description: Purim Celebration in Leningrad..Object Origin: Soviet Union..Medium: color photograph..Dimensions: 3 x 5 inches..Date: 1984..: digital.cjh.org/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=408994 ( http://dig... More