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Jewish food writer Joan Nathan (center left) and researcher Moriah Amit learned about the Holocaust histories of Nathan's relatives, Wolfgang Bernheim (far left) and his grandmother, Marie Bernheim. (Images courtesy Center for Jewish History via JTA)
April 16, 2026, 4:19 pm
Joan Nathan knew her Catholic relative died in the Holocaust. A new project added detail
The renowned Jewish cookbook author’s family history is uncovered in Histories and Mysteries, an initiative of the Ackman and Ziff Family Genealogy Institute in Manhattan
By Jackie Hajdenberg
'New York Havurah Shabbat School, Jay Greenspan, Simchat Torah, 1976' dates to photographer Bill Aron's time as a member of the grassroots Jewish congregation on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. (Bill Aron, American Jewish Historical Society via JTA)
February 10, 2026, 1:08 am
Bill Aron, photographer of Jewish countercultures, gets his due in sweeping NYC retrospective
A new American Jewish Historical Society exhibit running through June 4 spans five decades’ worth of images — from the heyday of the havurah movement to the fading glory of the Jewish Lower East Side
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Lore Segal gestures during an interview in New York, February 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
January 28, 2026, 4:09 pm
NYC exhibit honors writer Lore Segal, a Holocaust child refugee and skeptic of easy truths
‘And That’s True Too,’ on display through April 15, traces the New Yorker contributor’s arc from Kindertransport to the Big Apple, where she dazzled with novels, short stories and kids’ books
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Young adults visit 'Anne Frank: The Exhibition,' at the Center for Jewish History in New York City, January 2025. (John Halpern)
January 25, 2025, 1:19 am
NYC replica of famed Anne Frank House amplifies humanity of those murdered by Nazis
Reproduction of tiny Amsterdam annex where young diarist hid with her family opens to the public at the Center for Jewish History on Monday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day
By Jordan Hoffman
A student reads a bulletin board announcement of a meeting November 16, 1938, at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, which met to denounce persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany. (AP Photo/Fox)
November 1, 2024, 2:39 am
From Nazis to Vietnam protesters, NY exhibit highlights history of campus antisemitism
At NYC’s Center for Jewish History through Dec. 31, ‘Between Antisemitism and Activism’ looks at Jews in academia facing obstacles like quotas, Holocaust relativism and anti-Zionism
By Cathryn J. Prince
FILE - A woman enters the secret annex at the renovated Anne Frank House Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)
October 16, 2024, 9:35 am
Full-scale replica of Anne Frank’s hidden annex heads to New York for exhibition
Meticulous reconstruction of Jewish family’s hideaway to be shown at Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, along with artifacts such as yellow star, ‘Forbidden For Jews’ sign
By Mike Corder
A woman is seen at Shoah Name Wall Memorial in Vienna on the occasion of its inauguration on November 9, 2021. (GEORG HOCHMUTH / APA / AFP)
November 30, 2022, 11:40 am
Project offers free DNA kits to Holocaust survivors to help them find lost relatives
New York-based Center for Jewish History launches initiative to help people learn about family connections severed by genocide
By Deepti Hajela
An 1806 French print depicting Napoleon Bonaparte emancipating the Jews. (Public domain)
November 8, 2022, 11:29 pm
Opening on Election Day, NYC exhibit traces global history of Jews’ civil rights
‘How Jews Became Citizens’ at NYC’s Center for Jewish History gives access to a trove of ancient documents showing the ever-changing status of local Jewish communities
By Cathryn J. Prince
David Serero, center, plays Romeo and Ashley Brooke Miller plays Juliet in a Jewish adaptation of the classic tragedy. (Josefin Dolsten via JTA)
June 15, 2019, 8:41 pm
It’s Ashkenazi vs. Sephardi Jews in this take on ‘Romeo and Juliet’
From Sunday at New York’s Center for Jewish History, a reimagining of Shakespearean classic with an Ashkenazi Juliet falling for a Sephardi Romeo, to the dismay of their families
By Josefin Dolsten
Sidney Franklin was the first American to reach the status of a matador. (Edward Steichen/Condé Nast via Getty Images and JTA)
June 8, 2019, 4:32 am
The amazingly brave chutzpa of a 1930s gay, Jewish bullfighter
When not unfurling his cape, American matador Sidney Franklin, aka ‘El Torero de la Torah,’ hobnobbed with Ernest Hemingway, who immortalized him in ‘Death in the Afternoon’
By Josefin Dolsten
Illustrative: A tour at the Amud Aish Memorial Museum in Brooklyn, NY on January 10, 2018. The museum focuses on Jewish religious practice and the role of faith during the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
February 6, 2019, 10:10 pm
US House members introduce bill to fund Holocaust education in schools
Bipartisan legislation will establish Treasury fund, which will be combined with private donations to finance grants for public and private middle schools and high schools
By Ron Kampeas
David Myers, president and CEO of the Center for Jewish History. (Credit: Scarlett Freund)
October 16, 2018, 8:40 am
New Israel Fund’s new president opposes ‘most forms of’ Israel boycotts
David Myers takes role after stepping down as CEO of the Center for Jewish History following criticism of his involvement with liberal organizations
By JTA
David Myers, president and CEO of the Center for Jewish History. (Credit: Scarlett Freund)
July 3, 2018, 9:21 am
Center for Jewish History head steps down, denies right-wing critics to blame
David Myers says he wants to be back home in Los Angeles, dismisses as ‘nuisances’ detractors who complained of his ties to left-wing movements, openness to settlement boycotts
By JTA
Ruth Wisse in conversation with David Myers at the Center for Jewish History, April 26, 2018. (Lauren Silberman)
May 1, 2018, 3:09 pm
Harvard prof who escaped Europe on eve of WWII dissects world’s oldest hatred
Speaking in NY, 82-year-old Ruth Wisse shares why anti-Semitism isn’t the Jews’ fault, but how self-rule has made them even more of a target
By Cathryn J. Prince
David Myers, president and CEO of the Center for Jewish History. (Credit: Scarlett Freund)
October 24, 2017, 1:57 pm
Panned over Israel views, Center for Jewish History head denies partisan agenda
Even after an uproar over his left-leaning political activism, Prof. David Myers says unanimity among Jewish thinkers is ‘boring’
By Cathryn J. Prince
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